What Are You Listening To?

[Music Head]

from my library (vinyl)



The first one where Barry really lost me. I like mellow/jazzy but this just didn't do it. I imagine he was at the point in his career where the label (Arista) said do anything you want to do. Just wondering if they had second thoughts. Nice music throughout this, and Barrys voice is fine. So it's hard for me to peg why I don't like it. Guest spots from Sarah Vaughan and Mel Torme were welcome but didn't add much. No seperation between tracks with an unnoticable transition from one song to the next. So it sort of all runs together. By the end I let out a sigh of relief. The album made it to #28 on the billboard charts. Singles of Paradise Cafe and When October Goes, neither of which touched the pop charts.

I DO NOT LIKE THIS ALBUM

Worst Track - Night Song

Best Track - Paradise Cafe

The night is new
The faces are friendly
So have a few
and let me play
Some new songs, some blue songs
The mood is always right
every night at the Paradise Cafe

The world outside
may make its own madness
But here we hide
the world away
No headlines, no deadlines
we'll make them disappear
while you're here at the Paradise Cafe

The room is kinda smokey
The phone ain't workin'
The same old broken keys don't play
But no one seems to mind it
'cause someone's buyin'
And we'll all get through one more day

Just me and you around the piano
Not much to do but dream away
So stay on, I'll play on
I'm all yours for a song
all night long at the Paradise Cafe

Forget the one who loved you
then lied and left you
Forget the love you almost had
But if you must remember
the way it left you
We'll make it feel good to feel bad

Just me and you around the piano
Not much to do but dream away
So stay on, I'll play on
I'm all yours for a song
all night long at the Paradise Cafe

1) Paradise Cafe - **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGLbZV_7IXs
2) Where Have You Gone - **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0L_7cbTkHfY
3) Say No More - *
4) Blue - *
live - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBpbrrUGsXM
5) When October Goes - **
live - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIwp6xZdoRc
6) What Am I Doin' Here - *
7) Goodbye My Love - **
8) Big City Blues - **
live - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daFe0ZHEHw0
9) When Love Is Gone - *
10) I've Never Been So Low On Love - **
live - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nepnI5m-RFU
11) Night Song - *

3's - 0
2's - 6
1's - 5

Grade 1.5