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Harps & Angels by: Randy Newman List Price: $18.98 CD-Charts Price: $9.99 You Save: $8.99 (47%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0075597998931 Label: Nonesuch Manufacturer: Nonesuch Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Nonesuch Release Date: August 05, 2008 Studio: Nonesuch Sales Rank: 50 MPN: 122812 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: Product Description: Randy Newman's first studio album of all new material in nearly a decade is, by turns, hilarious, poignant and scathingly satirical. Harps and Angels often has an easy going Crescent City feel, with Newman on piano fronting a small combo and revealing, as Rolling Stone put it after the Carnegie Hall show, his serious love and study of the New Orleans piano tradition. Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - A great albumThe state of the union and our culture from one of our more acerbic commentators. Newman's tone of comic bemusement and aloof disgust has never been put to better use. May be the best record of his career. Rating: - we love itI think this is one of the best cd's i've heard in a long time-from ironic to just plain beautiful lyrics- this cd has it all Bravo Rating: - Better than Ever!Randy Newman is at his best here. When sweet, his songs will tear your heart out. When sarcastic and political, his tongue at its acid best. When honest -- brutally funny and pulling no punches. I really love this set of pieces. This is melodic and beautifully crafted thinking man's music. How he continues to write this way, so consistently excellent never ceases to astound me. This is a must buy, because you will want to listen over and over and over again. There's much more here than meets the eye at first go-see. Rating: - just greatI saw RN last year solo & it was great & he did a few cuts off what would be H & A. This is a solid effort better that Bad Love from 1999...Froom's production is much better on this recording. The title track is an instant classic. Newman's pop recordings have been few & far between the last 20 years but always worth the wait. Not a week offering here & nice in a short LP length recording (less IS more-NO FILLER)...equally as good as Brian Wilson's most recnt offering (if not better)& Lindsey Buckingham's. Rating: - A voice of reason in dangerous timesRandy Newman is modern day, singing Voltaire who has turned his prodigious wit on a selection of social concerns that lead him to question whether the best days of the US Imperium are over. His targets here are the more serious offenders: religious humbuggery ("Harps & Angels"), failed political leadership ("A Few Word in Defense of Our Country"), lack of engagement with the serious concerns of our times ("Laugh & be Happy"), social and financial inequality ("Piece of The Pie"), dysfunctional relationships ("Only a Girl"), and parental confusion ("Korean parents"). There are two particularly beautiful ballads on this album that are likely to outlive the ephemeral political concerns of the other material. "Loosing You" is the confession ... Read More: |
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