Robert Christgau: CG: Randy Newman Writings: Web Site: Carola Dibbell: Venues: Randy Newman • 12 Songs [Reprise, 1970] A+ • Live [Reprise, 1971] B • Sail Away [Reprise, 1972] A- • Good Old Boys [Reprise, 1974] A • Little Criminals [Warner Bros., 1977] B+ • Born Again [Warner Bros., 1979] B+ • Trouble in Paradise [Warner Bros., 1983] A- • Land of Dreams [Reprise, 1988] B+ • Randy Newman's Faust [Reprise, 1995] A • Bad Love [DreamWorks, 1999] A • Good Old Boys [Rhino/Reprise, 2002] • The Randy Newman Songbook, Vol. 1 [Nonesuch, 2003] • Harps and Angels [Nonesuch, 2008] A • The Randy Newman Songbook Vol. 3 [Nonesuch, 2016] A- • Dark Matter [Nonesuch, 2017] A Consumer Guide Reviews: 12 Songs [Reprise, 1970] As a rule, American songwriting is banal, prolix, and virtually solipsistic when it wants to be honest, merely banal when it doesn't. Newman's truisms--always concise, never confessional--are his own. Armando Sanchez Asi Empezo La Cosa Rar. Speaking through recognizable American grotesques, he comments here on the generation gap (doomed), incendiary violence (fucked up but sexy), male and female (he identifies with the males, most of whom are losers and weirdos), racism (he's against it, but he knows its seductive power), and alienation (he's for it). Dvd Ripper Platinum Serial Key here. Newman's music counterposes his indolent drawl--the voice of a Jewish kid from L.A. Who grew up on Fats Domino--against an array of instrumental settings that on this record range from rock to bottleneck to various shades of jazz.

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