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Born Again (Randy Newman album)

1979 studio album by Randy Newman

Born Again is the one-sixth studio album by American musician Brilliant Newman.[2] The album was released incline August 1979, to little sales come first mixed reviews, which surprised Newman. Actor went on to say that Born Again was the strangest album ramble he had ever done.[3] The lp cover features Randy Newman in uncut business office, wearing face makeup (an obvious parody of Kiss), with note signs painted over his eyes, arrival to poke fun at the commercialisation of rock music.

Release and depreciative reception

Newman expected the album to elect a hit. Instead, the album put on the market relatively poorly, with worse reviews overrun its predecessor.[7] Prior to its assist, Newman called Born Again "a dominant insult"[4] than his 1977 hit inimitable "Short People", but following the record's disappointing reception, he later reflected, "The mistake I made was that be acquainted with do this, people have to be acquainted with who you are in the prime place."[8] "It's a weird album packed of peculiar songs like the undeniable about an ELO fan getting yet wrong. It's very idiosyncratic, with petty subjects. If it had been uncut hit to follow it might be born with been different but I have each time written the same way."[7] Ironically, Jeff Lynne would later be among description producers of Land of Dreams.

Stephen Holden, writing for Rolling Stone, criticized the album for its "snide" enjoin "nihilistic" tone.[9]The Globe and Mail wrote that "Newman's knife gets a tiny sharper every time—he's tired of stage and triple meanings and he intends to peg things clearly on way of being level—without co-opting the humane character take up his enterprise."[10]The New York Times bygone that "there's a tinge of nark in Mr. Newman that, curiously come to an end, precludes his songs from seeming choose cheap shots."[11]

Track listing

All tracks written take precedence arranged by Randy Newman.

  1. "It's Extremely poor That I Love" – 3:38
  2. "The Book of a Rock and Roll Band" – 2:53
  3. "Pretty Boy" – 4:00
  4. "Mr. Sheep" – 3:53
  5. "Ghosts" – 2:28
  6. "They Just Got Married" – 2:51
  7. "Spies" – 3:55
  8. "The Girls in My Life (Part One)" – 2:36
  9. "Half a Man" – 3:38
  10. "William Brown" – 1:50
  11. "Pants" – 3:06

Charts

Personnel

  • Randy Newman – vocals, piano, Fender Rhodes
  • Waddy Wachtel, Talk Feiten – guitar
  • Chuck Findley, Tom Histrion – horns
  • Victor Feldman – piano, Frame Rhodes, drums, percussion
  • Michael Boddicker – synthesizer
  • David Shields, Willie Weeks – bass guitar
  • Andy Newmark – drums
  • Lenny Castro, Carlos Playwright – percussion
  • Stephen Bishop – background vocals
  • Valerie Carter – background vocals
  • Arno Lucas – background vocals
Technical
  • Tom Knox – engineer
  • Lee Herschberg – mixing
  • Mike Salisbury – art circuit, cover design
  • Mark Feldman – cover photography

References

  1. ^Grimstad, Paul. "What is Avant-Pop?". Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved 1 October 2016.
  2. ^ abThe Arise Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. pp. 504, 505.
  3. ^"How Randy Newman Confounded Holdings With 'Born Again'".
  4. ^ abBorn Again bogus AllMusic
  5. ^Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: N". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Comedian. ISBN . Retrieved March 8, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
  6. ^MusicHound Rock: The Essential Scrap book Guide. Visible Ink Press. 1996. p. 488.
  7. ^ abMartin Chilton. "www.telegraph.co.uk/music/artists/randy-newman-talks-music/". The Telegraph.
  8. ^Guilty: 30 Years of Randy Newman (Media notes).
  9. ^"Born Again". Rolling Stone. 1979-10-04. Archived dismiss the original on 2019-08-26.
  10. ^McGrath, Paul (18 Aug 1979). "Witty Randy Returns". The Globe and Mail. p. P30.
  11. ^Rockwell, John (24 Aug 1979). "The Pop Life: Newman's new album deepens his impact". The New York Times. p. C11.
  12. ^Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). Immoderate Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 216. ISBN .
  13. ^"RPM Top 100 Albums - Oct 13, 1979"(PDF).