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Track Listings
| 1. The Fuse |
| 2. Your Bright Baby Blues |
| 3. Linda Paloma |
| 4. Here Come Those Tears Again |
| 5. The Only Child |
| 6. Daddy's Tune |
| 7. Sleep's Dark And Silent Gate |
| 8. The Pretender |
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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
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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
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
david geffen must have pooped his pants when he finally figured out just what he had, when he signed jackson browne....it was pure accident...geffens secretary found a photo of JB in the office trash...looked at it...told david...dont toss that out...he is a nice looking boy,came by,well mannered...listen to his demo..theres something about him..the rest is history...the pretender put jb in the limelight.and on the map......though he and frey and the old laurel canyon cronies had been around for years..the nexxus of geffen and jackson became the platform.....and jb introduced geffen to all the hot acts emerging around sunset blvd. as payback for geffens faith...geffen intelligently left jb alone to create his own brand of brilliant, confessional, west coast rock...the pretender is brownes defining anthem...his ethos...and to appreciate JB one has to know the pretender..."im gonna be a happy idiot and struggle for the legal tender..."is pretty precocious stuff for a 23/24 year old guy, at the time...without getting carried away...browne may be the mozart of rock...that kind of raw talent is likely borne not made...i think.. buy the cd....be a contender not a pretender...a happy idiot...!!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By Craig
Format:Audio CD
I have pretty much all of Browne's cds, and I have to tell you there is none better than this one in my opinion. He's not one of my favorite artists, but on this cd he got everything right. Not being his biggest fan, I will note what I can about the cd without a lot of depth into the background of it. The songs seem to revolve around the relationships between parents and children, and the various boundaries involved. The songs are extremely well written, and the music for the lyrics is for the most part exceptional. Even the songs that don't get a lot of radio play help the cd reach its potential. It's truly a great cd, and if you can, get it.
By "mimi126"
Format:Audio CD
Jackson is my favorite singer-songwriter. I tell anyone I discuss music with the he is my "Lyrical God." An amazing poet/writer and musician. My favorite song is "Bright Baby Blues," which he initally change the words to once he recorded the song. This is a great album displaying his brilliance.
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My Favorite Jackson Browne Album!
I'm a Jackson Browne Fan since the 70s & this is my favorite! I love Linda Paloma & especially Your Bright Baby Blues!
Published on Dec 4 2003 by Jamie Grimes
5.0 out of 5 stars
Born And Raised With This Album
I'm Quite Young But I've Known This Album Front To Back Since I Was 6 Years Old. My Dad Gave It To Me And I Haven't Put It Down Since. I Own 2 Copies Of The CD. Read more
Published on Aug 3 2003 by Shiz
5.0 out of 5 stars
out into the cool of the evening strolls the pretender......
There are albums you love intensely for roughly five minutes of your life, there are albums that have great meaning at one point in time and can still muster up a nostaligic smile... Read more
Published on July 4 2003 by a reader
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Birth of my love of music
An album that has truly stood the test of time. I was a teenager when this album came out. I was barely out of my candy rock stage of the Partridges and Donny Osmond. Read more
Published on Mar 14 2003 by Carol Pigott
5.0 out of 5 stars
Masterpiece Written under the worst of times for Browne
His wife kills herself leaving him a son. Not exactly material for an uplifting album in an era (1976) that is right of the beginning of the disco generation. Read more
Published on Jan 30 2003 by Don McNay
5.0 out of 5 stars
Time runs like a fuse
The mark of a great album is how well it stands the test of time. 'The Pretender' spoke to me at 17 when it first came out. Read more
Published on Jan 29 2003 by His Bobness
4.0 out of 5 stars
This album makes me smile.
Not that I think it's funny or anything -- it's just that Browne's fake cholo persona on the cover was amusing. ... Read more
Published on Jan 25 2003 by Sabrina
4.0 out of 5 stars
Just my thoughts
When I heard this one back in 1976[which happens to be my favorite of the seventies! I was 14 and just starting to get into music. I loved Pretender. Read more
Published on Aug 15 2002 by Carol Hicks
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Great Beginner Jackson Browne Album
I say a great "beginner" album from experience. Although I knew and liked Jackson's hits, I never knew how great he was, until I found a cassette of "The... Read more
Published on Jun 2 2002 by David Simmons
4.0 out of 5 stars
Browne is No "Pretender"
Jackson Browne followed up the two best albums of his career ("For Everyman" and "Late for the Sky") with an album that suffers only by comparison. Read more
Published on Jan 5 2002 by Brian D. Rubendall
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