Next Voice You Hear: The Best of Jackson Browne

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Next Voice You Hear: The Best of Jackson Browne
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Artist: Jackson Browne
Brand: BROWNE,JACKSON
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 1997-09-23
Music Label: Rhino Records
Soundtracks:
  1. Doctor My Eyes
  2. These Days
  3. Fountain Of Sorrow
  4. Late For The Sky
  5. The Pretender
  6. Running On Empty
  7. Call It A Lone
  8. Somebody's Baby
  9. Tender Is The Night
  10. In The Shape Of A Heart
  11. Lives In The Balance
  12. Sky Blue And Black
  13. The Barricades Of Heaven
  14. The Rebel Jesus
  15. The Next Voice You Hear

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I was listening to this the other day, listening to Jackson Browne for the first time in over a decade, and I was struck not so much by the music itself, although "Doctor My Eyes" did raise my pulse a beat or two. What I was struck with is how prescient and how beautifully expressed were some of the lyrics, and how some of the songs were able to fill me with emotions that I had forgotten.

The best song on the album, and I would say the best song Browne ever wrote is "The Pretender." "Oh yes! I am the Great Pretender...pretending that I'm not alone..."

Well, no, Jackson Browne's "The Pretender" is nothing like the Platters' "The Great Pretender" from an earlier age, and those are not the sort of lyrics--outstanding as they are--that I am thinking about. He begins with a Sisyphean theme, that of getting up in the morning each day in his house in the shade of the freeway and going to work each day and then the next day doing it again. And then he wonders about the changes:

I've been aware of the time going by
They say in the end it's the wink of an eye

And there's being "Caught between the longing for love/And the struggle for the legal tender...Where the veterans dream of the fight/Fast asleep at the traffic light/And the children solemnly wait/For the ice cream vendor" You've got to love that "solemnly."

And he ends with being a happy idiot..."Where the ads take aim and lay their claim/To the heart and the soul of the spender." Could he have been talking about today's generations?

And how contemporary is this lyric from "Lives in the Balance"?: "You may ask what it takes to remember/When you know that you've seen it before/Where a government lies to a people/And a country is drifting to war/And there's a shadow on the faces/Of the men who sent the guns/To the wars that are fought in places/Where their business interest runs"

"Fountain of Sorrow" is the one that touches me the most emotionally. He was "taken by a photograph of you...You were turning 'round to see who was behind you/And I took your childish laughter by surprise/And at the moment that my camera happened to find you/There was just a trace of sorrow in your eyes"

Also touching is "Call it a Loan."

You were meant to play your part
In the design of a desperate heart
And while you gave your love to me
I was betting I was getting it free

...can we call it a loan?

I also love the refrain, "The next voice you hear will be your own."

And sweet and cute is his ode to a pretty girl, from the movie Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982): "Well just look at that girl/With the lights comin' up in her eyes/She's got to be somebody's baby...she's so fine"

There are fifteen songs in the album from an artist who was really a poet as well as a gifted musician with a fine eye for the culture and a sensitive feel for human relationships.
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Next Voice You Hear: The Best of Jackson Browne Poster

Includes "Doctor My Eyes," "These Days," "Fountain of Sorrow," "Late for the Sky," "The Pretender," "Running on Empty," "Somebody's Baby," "In the Shape of a Heart" and Jackson Browne's collaboration with the Chieftains, "The Rebel Jesus."
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Media Type: CD
Artist: BROWNE,JACKSON
Title: BEST OF-NEXT VOICE YOU HEAR
Street Release Date: 09/23/1997
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