Harry Chapin - Portrait Gallery
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Artist: Harry ChapinEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1993-06-29
Music Label: Elektra / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Dreams Go By
- Tangled up Puppet
- Star Tripper
- Babysitter
- Someone Keeps Calling My Name
- Rock
- Sandy
- Dirt Gets Under the Fingernails
- Bummer
- Stop Singing These Sad Songs
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Free Music Review: Not his best...
Hit: 2 Stars
I think each Harry Chapin album is good in its own right, but if I had to give a Chapin album the title of "not-the-best", it would be this album. The lyrics are good, but in regards to the instrumentation, it is over-produced.
Granted, I think an album that is over-produced can still work, but this seems to come off as pure self-indulgence. My theory: his album before this, Verities & Balderdash, had gone to No. 4 on Billboard and had given him a # 1 hit with "Cat's in the Cradle". As with the unwritten rule in the music biz, if you have great success with a record, the artist can "have it his way" to a greater degree in the record that will follow. The trouble is, with this album, I think the producers and execs at Elektra Records let Harry "have it his way" a little too much.
The record does have two songs which, I think, sound good: "Star Tripper" and "Sandy". So, in the end, the record is not without some merits, but overall, I cannot help but think that this record could have been better.
- Marc Alan Hosch
P.S. This album is not Chapin's finest moment, but to be fair, Bob Dylan released a slew of horrible records in the 1980s, yet even then, he was still greatly respected.
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