The Wallflowers - Red Letter Days
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Artist: The WallflowersEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2002-11-05
Music Label: Interscope Records
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- WALLFLOWERS RED LETTER DAYS
- When You're On Top
- How Good It Can Get
- Closer To You
- Everybody Out Of The Water
- Three Ways
- Too Late To Quit
- If You Never Got Sick
- Health And Happiness
- See You When I Get There
- Feels Like Summer Again
- Everything I Need
- Here In Pleasantville
Free Music Notes for Red Letter Days
Free Music Review: Dylan's Declaration of Independence
Hit: 5 Stars
On 1996's sophomore release, the Wallflowers "brought down the horse." The album, which sold more than 3 million copies and garnered the band two Grammys, was the documentation of lead singer Jakob Dylan's personal struggle to step out of the imposing shadow of his father, rock pioneer Bob Dylan. This time around with the newly released Red Letter Days, Dylan is putting that horse to rest once and for all.When Dylan sings, "I buried my horse/in a shallow grave/ I said a few things/ I had champagne," he's not only bidding a fond farewell to the unavoidable and often unfavorable comparisons to his famous father, he is celebrating the severance of ties. And although the comparisons probably won't stop coming, this time around Dylan just doesn't give a damn. "That beast gave me everything/ that nobody gave/ I got high hopes.../ I won't look back/ I just found out/ that my bird can really sing," he concluded on "Feels Like Summer Again", a driving declaration of independence from all the negativity in his life.
Eternally tortured, Dylan continues to churn out reflective and thoughtful songs, many of which, including "Everything I Need", reading like a page out of his own personal diary.
"It doesn't matter/ if I'm qualified," he states. "Or if I ever learn to blow your mind/ I've got everything I need/ I'm not looking for a place to shine/ I woke up and I'm satisfied." After dismal sales of the band's third album Breach (2000), the Wallflowers might be feeling the pressure to reprove themselves to their audience and critics with Red Letter Days, but Dylan's songwriting isn't revealing the strain. And even though he claims he doesn't need a place to shine, with this album they are.
Whatever his true intentions, these 12 songs are lyrically poetic and melodically superb. The Wallflowers sound better than they have on any of their previous albums. Even Dylan, usually low-key, said in an interview that Red Letter Days was "the kind of record you always thought you were going to make when you were a kid." Despite some line-up changes, departures and guest musicians (including Mike McCready from Pearl Jam), the band sounds tight and unified.
Unlike previous albums where Dylan's rasping and mumbling were unintelligible, on this album he finally reveals the wide scope of his vocal abilities. He can be warm or cold. He can croon like Sinatra or scream like Cobain. He can be tortured and depressed or happily enthralled with the cards life has dealt him. The songs change from love song ballads to riff-laden rockers without jarring the listener or seeming out of place.
The Wallflowers other albums had a tendency to be dark and slightly bitter and Red Letter Days is a great departure from their usual doom and gloom without cleaning up all the grit that made their reputation. Newfound spirituality is an obvious theme and Dylan's more hopeful attitude makes the album bright and uplifting.
The phrase "red letter day" comes from the custom of marking important holidays on your calendar in red ink; it denotes a memorable or joyous day or event. In the second song, aptly titled "How Good It Can Get," Dylan reassures, "you won't believe/ just how good in can get", but if this record is any indication, there are some great albums yet to come. He offers more suggestion of the band's future in the final notes of "Too Late to Quit". "You're never gonna get back/ anymore than you're giving/ life is for the living/ you've got to be willing/ A song ain't a song/ until someone starts singing." It's a red letter day indeed.
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