Pete Townshend - All the Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes
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Artist: Pete TownshendEdition: Music CD
Format: Extra tracks, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2006-08-29
Music Label: Hip-O Records
Soundtracks:
- Stop Hurting People
- The Sea Refuses No River
- Prelude
- Face Dances Part Two
- Exquisitely Bored
- Communication
- Stardom In Action
- Uniforms (Corp D'esprit)
- North Country Girl
- Somebody Saved Me
- Slit Skirts
Free Music Notes for All the Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes
Free Music Review: All The Best Rock Stars Have Psychological Scars
Hit: 5 Stars
Just beneath the surface of a deeply troubled rock musician churns the uneasy mind of a tortured soul. Send them off into a rock and roll laboratory, listen for the small explosions and out they emerge with their edgy experiments and a fully exposed psychosis in tow. Put the headphones on and watch how Pete Townshend not only flies over the cuckoo's nest, but transcends its farthest boundaries on the wings of a fallen angel.
"Stop Hurting People" blows all Who-like conventions out the window with its spoken poem verses and sweetly sung choruses, taking aim at anything that moves and embracing it in a bear-like hug. "The Sea Refuses No River" drains its emotions through the sewer's of a junkies soul, looking for redemption in the currents that might one day wash us all clean. "Face Dances pt. 2" is an amusing aside of twisted rock and roll, dressed up like a single in silly clothes, and somehow it all works beautifully. "Exquisitely Bored" is a blues based rocker with Jamaican dreadlocks, smoking guitar licks like reefers in the rafters of an abandoned concert hall that has been temporarily turned into a shelter for the mentally homeless, while "Communication" stutters it's way through a new generation of hopeless romantics locked away in their Tommy-like isolation booths with one glove, a jar full of Vaseline, and a monkey named Bubbles. "Stardom in Action" looks at life through the other side of the fish-eyed lens, splattered with the mud of fame and fortune. "Uniforms" is dressed to the nines and fives, the slackers, the straights, stoners, and loners and all points in between, regimented to a strict beat of uniform notes. Click your boots to that beat and dance on the edge of conformity. "North Country Girl" is romantic posing and posturing like a peacock in a jeans commercial, while "Somebody Saved Me" is as sentimentally sweet as an unlit gas oven. "Slit Skirts" is a pre-viagra mood of impotence as seen through the looking glass of yesterday's youthful exuberance. Yeah, that's a hit single.
The bonus tracks now available on this remastered edition from 2006 are Vivienne, Man Watching, and Dance it Away. They're all good Townshend tunes, and whether or not they sound quite as left field as the rest of the record doesn't really distract from the fact that I would rather have them here than not have them at all. "All The Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes" is a treasure chest of fortune cookies just waiting to be read and analyzed. After every song I sip my hot green tea and think to myself, "Sore wa sugoi na!"
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