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The Pretender by: Jackson Browne List Price: $7.98 CD-Charts Price: $6.99 You Save: $0.99 (12%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0075596051323 Label: Elektra / Wea Manufacturer: Elektra / Wea Number Of Discs: 1 Publication Date: 1976 Publisher: Elektra / Wea Release Date: October 25, 1990 Studio: Elektra / Wea Sales Rank: 2290 MPN: 107 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: Amazon.com: A songwriting prodigy since his teens, Jackson Browne had already reached a zenith in confessional writing with 1974's Late for the Sky, a song cycle of his guitar and piano based anthems, reveries, and rockers, distilling themes of disillusionment, apocalypse, friendship, and fragile romances. Teaming with Bruce Springsteen's producer, Jon Landau, Browne himself clearly sought to up the ante with more epic settings, while Landau worked on pumping up the star's vocal attack. But personal tragedy, in the suicide of his partner and mother of his young son, cast an unplanned shadow across these songs, giving The Pretender a darker, heartbroken edge and an authentic, scarred toughness. Fatherhood, mortality, and resignation inform brilliant songs like "Your Bright Baby Blues" (featuring Lowell George's plangent slide guitar and vocal counterpoint), "Here Come Those Tears Again" (with Bonnie Raitt), and the prayerful, desolate "Sleep's Dark and Silent Gate," but it's the title tune that remains the haunting highlight. --Sam Sutherland Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - (3.5 stars) Above-average - for Jackson, that means "masterpiece"Musically, this is mostly more of the same monotonous soft-rock, but it's a cut above standard Jackson fare off the strength of two of his finest songs: "Here Come Those Tears Again", a mature look at the typical "come-and-go" relationship (though it's sadly doused in sappy country backup vocals), and particularly the title track, a cynical attack on suburban values that I think is my favorite of Jackson's songs. "Your Bright Baby Blues" also could've fit with these songs if it weren't so longwinded. And there are a couple songs that move beyond the soft-rock: while "Linda Paloma" is an awful flamenco song dominated by harpsichord, I like the fusion of hard-rock guitar and horns found on "Daddy's Tune". And even the typical soft-rock tracks ... Read More: Rating:  - Sandi on Jackson BrowneWonderful album. The musical poet is at work making his magic of creating stories set to music. Easy to listen to and a great talent. Rating: - ClassicIf you have any doubts, you should know this is one of the great rock classics - one of the very best, sound a+, lyrics a++, and musical performance a+++ JB at his best. Rating: - Another Of Jackson Browne's Best AlbumsTHE PRETENDER, along with JACKSON BROWNE, FOR EVERYMAN, LATE FOR THE SKY, and RUNNING ON EMPTY, is one of Jackson Browne's best albums. It features songs that cut to the very heart of the human soul, as well as railing against greed and materialism in the title track, a song which could teach valuable lessons to anyone who's ever told a young woman that she's overweight or called a classmate "freak", "nerd", or "loser." Other tunes on the album deal with the suicide of Browne's wife, which had occurred as he was writing for this one. This should be one of the first Jackson Browne albums you purchase anyway, but Browne's advocacies of sanctions against Indonesia in retaliation for that country's trumped-up drug-smuggling conviction of a young ... Read More: Rating: - flawed, but fascinating, and often brilliantJackson Browne left no doubt about his songwriting genius with 1974's "Late For The Sky", an artistic triumph in the truest sense of the word, and also a solid commercial breakthrough. However, by the time Jackson started to record his follow-up album, 1976's "The Pretender", things had changed drastically for for him with the suicide of his first wife with whom he'd had a son. This tragedy seems to have dramatically impacted his music, because, although Jackson's vocal phrasing and melodic style are carried over from "Late For The Sky", "The Pretender" is a big change from its predecessor. Without a doubt, a big part of this change is due to Jon Landau who produced the album. Known for his work with Bruce Springsteen, and having produced ... Read More: |
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