Willie Nile - Streets of New York
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Artist: Willie NileEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-02-21
Music Label: Lunaticworks Inc
Soundtracks:
- Welcome To My Head
- Asking Annie Out
- Game Of Fools
- Back Home
- The Day I Saw Bo Diddley In Washington Square
- Best Friends Money Can Buy
- Faded Flower Of Broadway
- When One Stands
- Whole World With You
- On Some Rainy Day
- Cell Phones Ringing (In The Pockets Of The Dead)
- Lonesome Dark-Eyed Beauty
- Police On My Back
- Streets Of New York
Free Music Notes for Streets of New York
Free Music Review: A Dying Breed
Hit: 5 Stars
I think this is a terrific CD...I think the www.allmusic.com review by Dave Thompson sums up my feelings pretty well:
If early 2006 is remembered for nothing else, it will go down in history for the two greatest urban Americana albums of the 21st century to date - Dion's Bronx in Blue and Willie Nile's Streets of New York, a swaggering braggart of a disc that is to the modern Apple everything that Lou Reed's New York was 15 years before. The opening "Welcome to My Head" sets the stage, raising the curtain on a fantasy vision of the city nightlife that sums up every dream Broadway and beyond have ever instilled in the mind of the outsider, and set to a crunchy guitar melody that is as real as the streets that stretch out from there. It might be Nile's first album in six years, but it sounds as though he's been planning it his entire life - even the songs that slip outside of the city concept ("Asking Annie Out" is the first) share the crowded, bustling air of the more "relevant" rockers, while "The Day I Saw Bo Diddley in Washington Square" paints the scene so firmly that you'll see him, too. Even more impressively, the backing rarely motors in the directions you'd expect. Fiddles keen and a mandolin pounds, while Nile borrowed his band from as far afield as John Mellencamp and Rosanne Cash. Further captivating imagery spills from "Faded Flower of Broadway," celebrating a primitivist artist who still sells her paintings on the street at 80 years of age and, though it's a cover, a pounding "Police on My Back," purposefully cut in rent-a-Clash mode as a tribute to Joe Strummer, and just as powerful as its illustrious forbear. One song steps away from New York entirely - the impossibly eerie "Cell Phones Ringing (In the Pockets of the Dead)" was written following the Madrid train bombings of March 2004. Of course, there's barely a soul in the city who won't be able to identify with the emotion that lies behind the lyrics, or the nightmare scenario that peels out around them. But that is not the only song on this album that one could say that about; indeed, if you haven't been to New York recently, Nile might just have saved you the fare. Streets of New York is that powerful.
P.S. to El Lagarto...try giving something 2, 3 or 4 stars...let some grey seep into your black (1 star) and white (5 star) world...
Streets of New York Poster
Those mean streets sound awfully clean on the latest from veteran bard Willie Nile, who here exchanges his raucous rock from the early 1980s for a more tempered approach that prizes poetry over punch. Though the songwriting remains as heartfelt as ever, with plenty of literary flourish, antiseptic arrangements all but drain the propulsion from "Welcome to My Head" and "Best Friends Money Can Buy," while the slow build of "Faded Flower of Broadway" flirts with power-ballad mawkishness. The epic narrative of the autobiographical "Back Home" and the harmonic-laced "Lonesome Dark-Eyed Beauty" find Nile giving his best Bob Dylan impression (Dylan's son Jakob, of the Wallflowers, guests elsewhere on the album), though the title track edges closer to Billy Joel territory. Only the heart-pumping urgency of "Whole World with You" and the feverish cover of Eddy Grant's "Police on My Back" (in homage to the Clash) show Nile really letting it rip as he as in the past. --Don McLeeseCountry Music CDs
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