Randy Newman - Bad Love
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Artist: Randy NewmanEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 1999-06-01
Music Label: Ume Imports
Soundtracks:
- My Country
- Shame
- I'm Dead(But I Don't Know It)
- Every Time It Rains
- The Great Nations of Europe
- The One You Love
- The World Isn't Fair
- Big Hat, No Cattle
- Better off Dead
- I Miss You
- Going Home
- I Want Everyone to Like Me
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At the dawn of a new century, Randy Newman creates an album that ranks with his absolute best material. "Bad Love" fits in perfectly with the characters, situations, and themes explored in albums such as "12 songs", "Sail Away", and "Good Old Boys". And, just like those albums' initial releases, no one seems to have heard "Bad Love" in 1999. Newman's best material has always suffered from obscurity. So history repeated itself.
The moods on this album range from racous distorted rock to bittersweeet ballads. "My Country" provides just as good of an opener as "Sail Away" did in 1972. It's a portrait of an age-hardened man who loves his country, doesn't know why, and decides to stay within its comfortable boundaries: "This is my country / These are my people / This is the world I understand" Newman sings - in character - as if any attempt to see the world from any other perspective would be foolish or pointless. And of course the last verse contains the unforgettable lines: "Now your children are your children / Even when they're grown / When they speak to you / You got to listen to what they have to say / But they all live alone now / They have TVs of their own / But they keep on coming over anyway / And as much as I love them / I'm always kind of glad when they go away". This ranks with some of Newman's greatest lyrics.
"Shame" and "I'm Dead (But I Don't Know It)" are hilarious views of aged desperate men. A group of women act as a Greek Chorus chanting "Shame" at the narrator as he spews egregious invective. This provides a view of the other side of the spectrum from Newman's happy film music. This song is downright nasty. And perfectly so. "I'm Dead (But I Don't Know It)" mocks aging rockers (and probably Newman himself, though this album provides a knockdown counter argument that Newman is a has-been). And asks the same question most of us do when a 1960s rock band releases yet another clunker: "why?" Newman's character pleads ignorance and obsession.
Then, shockingly, the album takes a forlorn turn. "Everytime It Rains" will rustle the spine of anyone who's lost a loved one for any reason whatsoever.
Newman also spins some great political satires: "The Great Nations of Europe" tells listeners to "Hide your wives and daughters / Hide the groceries too / The Great Nations of Europe are coming through". "The World Isn't Fair" has a successful captalist, rife with unfair privledge, lecturing Karl Marx about "how the world works", but ends with the confession "...because we care that the world still isn't fair."
Newman supposedly wrote "I Miss You" for his first wife. She apparently didn't understand why he had suddenly opened up to her. It's another heartbreaker.
If this stands as Newman's final album of non-film music, he couldnt've picked a better way to go out. "Bad Love" is a classic that stands up to infinite listenings. Unfortunately, Newman said in an interview a year or so after its release that "Bad Love sold about 30,000 copies internationally, so I'd better look for a better means of subsistence." That's a sad fact, but hopefully it won't keep him from putting out another original non-film album. If he has another "Bad Love" in him, we need to hear it.
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