 |  | even a heavy metal fan can appreciate this kind of talent |  |
As a die hard heavy metal fan it shocks most people and even my friends that I am a devoted fan of RT. I have worked at record stores since Rumor & Sigh came out and it wasn't until this release that I paid him attention again and realized what a great songwriter, guitarist and all around good storyteller that has eluded mainstrea success. I enjoy this album and "the Old Kit Bag" as my personal fave cd's from RT besides Rumor. If you are a fan of good music then check this guy out!
May 3, 2008 | | What a disapointing and dull album | |
After seeing several fine performance on YouTube and hearing Mirror Blue,
I was really looking forward to this one. Ufff, what a bummer it turned out to be. All the songs are similarly lame and pedestrian. The melodies
are definitely towards the boring side, and there's nothing on hear that's catchy or complex (Crawl under my Stone coming the closest). And Richard, for Gods sake stop crying incessantly about lost love. Every freaking song, my god. Get a mail order bride from Russia with love or something. Uff! Huge let down. Listened once and trashed.
September 5, 2007| | | 8 years later, and it still holds up as his best | |
The conventional wisdom/opinion is that Richard Thompson's best recording is "Shoot Out the Lights," his last duo with ex-wife, Linda. I would never argue the point. It's ridiculous to argue over whether any piece of artwork is better than another. Subjectivity, after all. Still, for my money, "Mock Tudor," (after 8 years of comparing music from his earliest days to his wonderful latest, "Sweet Warrior") is still his greatest masterpiece. Only the last two cuts on this 12-song set are only O.K. The rest are beautiful, thrilling, worth listening to over and over and over again. If you want the opinion of one Thompson fanatic, this is the record for the newcomer to buy first. You're liable to be hooked for life, just like those of us rabid fans that have scratched our heads for decades over his relative obscurity in the world of music.
July 21, 2007Simply put this is one of RT's best records and one of the best records, all artists included, in the last 20 years. BUY THIS RECORD! Whats more, it only gets better with the "semi-detached" live version!
February 16, 2007| | | RT Mocks all pseudo competitors | |
Okay, alright...so RT is a bit of an acquired taste...the taste is excellant. This is one of the top 10 discs in my collection (which numbers a couple of thousand) because of incredibly literate song writing matched with flawless instrumental execution. RT really has no peer...in a just world he would sell millions and do stadium shows. Okay, forget the stadium shows. "That's All, Amen Close the Door" is one of his weighty songs a la "I Still Dream" that provides a truly transcendant moment. He works his axe with sledgehammer abandon on "Hard on Me"...this is 'heavy' music of a different kind; emotional substance, but musically inventive and rewarding. If you've heard a better disc than this, beginning to end, in the last ten years I'd like to know what it is. Listen to it twice through and you will be hooked.
September 28, 2006More reviews at Amazon.com ...
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