Randy Newman - Land of Dreams
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Artist: Randy NewmanEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Reprise / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Dixie Flyer
- New Orleans Wins the War
- Four Eyes
- Falling in Love
- Something Special
- Bad News from Home
- Roll with the Punches
- Masterman and Baby J
- Red Bandana
- Follow the Flag
- It's Money That Matters
- I Want You to Hurt Like I Do
Free Music Notes for Land of Dreams
Free Music Review: A really solid album
Hit: 5 Stars
If you are listener of NPR, parts of this album tend to pop up from time to time as in-between type music.
This is a really good album, nearly as good as "12 Songs" and "Sail Away", there isn't a lot of bad Newman when you get right down to it.
If you search youtube, there is a terrific performance of "I want You to Hurt like I do". He introduces it as a take off on "We are the World" but if you listen to the song, he could easily be singing from his heart, and this is what it sounds like, as if he is confessing up to the fact that he is not so perfect and is trying to warn you (and it also could be read as him talking about his music which has never been all that rosey or even both ways at the same time).
On a side note, if you are a Newman fan be sure and check out "Vinestreet" which is a collection of his early songwriting credits by other performers. Be sure to also look at "Nilsson Sings Newman" which has always been a favorite album of min, it has a unrecorded song by Newman called "Snow" (though Claudet also recorded it) that is on the CD as an extra track. Newman played piano on this album, and it is a beautiful little album. "Nilsson Sings Newman" has gotten nowhere near the credit it deserves, almost a perfect little album.
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During the 1970s, singer/songwriter Randy Newman distinguished himself by dodging the prevailing confessional trend that was de rigueur for his peers, preferring to build his songs around richly detailed, often grotesque characters, and taking his story lines from anyone's history but his own. By the late '80s, however, his parallel ambitions as a film composer now yielding a separate, equally distinctive body of work, Newman was relaxed enough to allow introspection: 1988's Land of Dreams spins Newman's childhood sojourn in wartime New Orleans into the wonderful, opening title song and the farcical "New Orleans Wins the War," relives grade school traumas ("Four Eyes"), and offers a bleak portrait of a marriage unraveling on the quietly devastating "Bad News from Home." These songs, and two atypically tender love songs, "Something Special" and "Falling In Love," are as close to autobiography as he's ever gotten. --Sam SutherlandPop Music CDs
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