What I’m Listening To Today: Randy Newman: Bad Love. Newman took eleven years off between releasing Land of Dreams (1988) and Bad Love (1999). After co-writing the script (& penning several musical masterpieces) for the 1986 comedic smash-hit Three Amigos!, Newman scored dozens of films, including comedies: Meet the Parents, Meet the Fockers, Parenthood & Major League; western action […]
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Wilco: The Whole Love
I don’t have much time, but I want to post something about this album. Towards the end of last year (Sept. 2011), Wilco released The Whole Love and it is stunningly pure. Normally I would debate the merit of industry based awards – however this album, and Wilco in general, manage to tame my raging […]
Randy Newman: Good Old Boys
The deeper I delve into Randy Newman’s discography, the more I am struck at the incredible extent of his talent. February 1st, 1973: Newman recorded a heavily annotated, 13 track demo for a new concept album he was interested in producing, the kernel being the life and thoughts of a (deep) southern everyman named Johnny […]
Randy Newman: 12 Songs
If the only Randy Newman you know is from Toy Story or Family Guy, than his sophomore album, 12 Songs, will be good for you. Newman spent 10 of his early years in New Orleans listening to Ray Charles and Louis Armstrong but was born in (and later returned to) Los Angeles – where he […]