David Byrne - Look Into the Eyeball
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Free Music Review: Brilliant!!!!
Hit: 5 Stars
Superb!!! The best album I've heard so far this year and one of the best albums I've heard in the past ten years!Free Music Review: 5 Stars ...for price, service, and product.
Hit: 5 Stars
This was a very inexpensive used album. I got more than I paid for, in excellent condition, and on time.Free Music Review: Brain Music
Hit: 5 Stars
thinking words set to music--just discovered--am buying--metre-great-Free Music Review: Beautiful deconstruction of a divorce
Hit: 4 Stars
It's January 2007, and I'm editing my own review that I wrote in June of 2001, just after this album was released. The one sentence I'm keeping from my original review is: "This is an album that will grow on you."
Every musician has different ways of writing songs. Byrne's method is purportedly to gather random thought fragments, and especially images and visions from his dreams, onto a personal voice recorder, then transfer them to his laptop. Then he'll hum nonsensical sounds as he composes the music, and finally melds the two together to form a song.
He's also been known to say that he often doesn't see the meaning of his own songs until years later. So far, I've written around 150 reviews on amazon, and this is the first one I've edited. The reason is that the songs on this record are just now coming into focus as Byrne's documentation of his own divorce. Whether he intended it to be that way originally or not, only he knows.
As he has done throughout his career, the songs here are variously written in the first, second, or third person (sometimes in more than one person within a song).
As one would expect with anyone's divorce, Byrne wrestled with his feelings and emotions as he went through the experience, apparently, with the help of a therapist ("Broken things"). Ultimately, there's a sense that he came to terms, and seems to be at peace with, the situation in the end.
There's at least one song in which he's moved on to a new relationship, and in it, he chronicles the initial uncertainties involved in any new relationship beyond the initial stage of infatuation.
Byrne might at one time have put a lot of effort into not showing his feelings, but here, intentionally or not, he's wearing them on his sleeve. It's just a matter of "decoding" the lyrics.
A great CD that has, indeed proved to grow on me in ways I would never have imagined.
Free Music Review: Everyone's In Love With You
Hit: 4 Stars
If you are reading this, or any of the reviews of David Byrne's new cd, "Look Into The Eyeball", then I have to assume you are a fan. Since Byrne keeps a relatively low profile, you have to like his music to keep up to date on him. "Look Into The Eyeball" (LITE) continues to showcase how Byrne changes and grows with each new release. This cd has the addition of a string section on many of the songs with contemporary beats keeping Byrne current. There are the usual, or unusual, trademarks of a Byrne disc like his viewpoints and observations on relationships and life, but this time out the irony isn't as much. LITE is a mixture of 1992's "Uh-Oh", 1994's "David Byrne" and 1997's "Feelings" with a touch of 1989's "Rei Momo" and 1990's "The Forest". LITE isn't as good as "David Byrne" or "Uh-Oh" but I don't believe Byrne ever makes a sub-par cd (with the exception of "The Forest"). I enjoyed the fact that this cd is only 38 minutes long, as so many cds these days are excessively long. I also liked many of the songs on this disc like "U.B. Jesus", "The Great Intoxication", "Like Humans Do", "Broken Things", "Desconocido Soy", "The Moment Of Conception", "Walk On Water" and "Everyone's In Love With You". Overall, a solid performance and worth owning if you are a fan, which I assume you are! Byrne is one of few artists (and he is an artist! Look at the cool packaging of the cd!) that is aging gracefully without selling out.