Richard & Linda Thompson - Shoot Out the Lights
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Artist: Richard & Linda ThompsonEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1991-07-01
Music Label: Hannibal
Soundtracks:
- Don't Renege on Our Love
- Walking on a Wire
- Man in Need
- Just the Motion
- Shoot Out the Lights
- Back Street Slide
- Did She Jump or Was She Pushed?
- Wall of Death
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Free Music Review: richard & linda have done much better
Hit: 3 Stars
Sure, this is a decent enuf album but i cannot perceive why it is routinely regarded as one of rock 'n' roll's finest. My hunch is that one or two high profile reviewers (Rolling Stone, et.al) gave it glowing reviews back in '82 and other copycat writers simply fell in lockstep. That's generally what happens. Perhaps the compilers of such 'best of' lists realized that one of the true great artists of the late 60s and 70s wasn't represented so this album was artificially inflated. I'll bet many reviewers were simply a few years late in discovering Thompson's talent so they decided to glom onto this album.
I feel that SOTL is at best Richard & Linda's 5th and perhaps even 6th best effort. 'Hokey Pokey' and 'I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight' are the two albums that best illustrate the Thompson's genious. Even 'Sunnyvista' and 'Pour Down Like Silver' are superior albums with more great songs than this one. If you haven't tapped into any of those other albums please do yourself a big favor. I'd put SOTL at the same level as their 1978 release 'First Light' - an ok album.
I'm curious what other Richard & Linda fans think. Not those of you who simply acquired this recording because you repeatedly saw it on some contrived list, but those of you who are very familiar with this duo's entire body of work. What of 'Hokey Pokey' 'I Want to see the Bright Lights Tonight' and others. How do they stack up to this ok but overrated record?
Shoot Out the Lights Poster
Real life intruded on Richard and Linda Thompson and turned Shoot Out the Lights into a harrowing masterpiece. The collection was difficult to create. Tracks from an aborted first attempt to record the album ended up on the Richard Thompson anthology Watching the Dark and the history of Linda Thompson Dreams Fly Away. It also became their final record together, lending extra poignance to such classically grim Richard Thompson titles as "Did She Jump or Was She Pushed" and "Wall of Death." The combination of Richard's inventive guitar work; his ragged vocals; and Linda's fragile, beautiful singing, all suffocatingly emotional, backed for the most part by longtime Thompson associates from Fairport Convention, make Shoot Out the Lights essential. --David WolfCountry Music CDs
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