- Audio Cassette (July 23 1996)
- Format: Import
- Label: Polygram Records
- ASIN: B000001EJ5
- In-Print Editions: Audio CD | LP Record
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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Product Details
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Track Listings
| 1. Have You Forgotten |
| 2. Song for a Blue Guitar |
| 3. Make Like Paper |
| 4. Priest Alley Song |
| 5. Trailways |
| 6. I Feel the Rain Fall |
| 7. Long Distance Runaround |
| 8. All Mixed Up |
| 9. Revelation Big Sur |
| 10. Silly Love Songs |
| 11. Another Song for a Blue Guitar |
Product Description
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At first glance, Songs for a Blue Guitar appears much like previous Red House Painters albums, meandering and largely self-indulgent. Eight of the album's 11 songs stray over the five-minute mark (with two more than twice that length), and there are the covers of Yes's "Long Distance Runaround," Ric Ocasek's "All Mixed Up," and Paul McCartney's "Silly Love Songs." Kozelek may have strange taste when it comes to picking out covers ("Silly Love Songs"?), but on this album he's also showing a commitment and sense of deliberate purpose that I've not heard from him before. Even in the album's centerpiece, the more than 12-minute long "Make Like Paper" that contains a guitar solo that supposedly is responsible for 4AD dropping them, there's not a false move. The song unfolds gently, revealing more facets of itself than the spare instrumentation would seem to allow. The guitar's absolutely delicious Neil Young/Robert Quine/Richard Lloyd crunch doesn't hurt, either. That crunch shows up again in "Long Distance Runaround" and "Silly Love Songs," but the rest of the album is built around a gently arresting acoustic guitar that mirrors the soft-voiced Kozelek. --Randy Silver
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Interesting Mix of Music,
By A Customer
This review is from: Songs For A Blue Guitar (Audio CD)
I got turned on to this by watching a movie called "excess baggage" they were playing "all mixed up" had to buy it. I have been listening to this CD all day - what a fantastic collection of music - he's really an interesting musician. I listen to everything. This really puts an interesting spin into my day.
5.0 out of 5 stars
took a chance,
By A Customer
This review is from: Songs For A Blue Guitar (Audio CD)
I purchased the CD after I heard the song Have you forgotten on the Vanilla Sky soundtrack (which is an awesome album) . It is a great CD, I can't stop listening to it, even though the first song isn't anything like it is in the movie, I think it is even better. This is music for a "laid back" soul.
5.0 out of 5 stars
It'll take you back, even if you weren't there.,
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This review is from: Songs For A Blue Guitar (Audio CD)
This album has a powerful meloncoly nostalgic feel to it. Some great guitar work and the lead singer uses his voice uniquely.
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