Harps & Angels

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EAN: 0075597998931
Label: Nonesuch
Number Of Discs: 1
Release Date: 2008-08-05

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Editorial Reviews:
Randy Newman's first studio album of all new material in nearly a decade is, by turns, hilarious, poignant and scathingly satirical. Harps and Angels often has an easy going Crescent City feel, with Newman on piano fronting a small combo and revealing, as Rolling Stone put it after the Carnegie Hall show, his serious love and study of the New Orleans piano tradition.

User Comments about the Harps & Angels

Randy must have been holding off, waiting to come up with some new catchy tunes, but the Record Company couldn't wait. Not like all his earlier stuff, just stupid drug soaked sorry for yourself minority Blues. Now I don't regret having bought "Angels & Harps" though I simply threw it in the trash. But I used to admire Randy Newman. Playing that thick lipped Blues style, pretending to be so dizzy. I play piano myself, and at least one or two songs per Album were fun to play. Well, they should have. You already know it.

Now I pity him.So buy "Angels & Harps". I guess some Record Company Suit told Randy that Lyrics are the only thing that matters, that everybody was buying the stuff because the lyrics were so smart. sounds all the same, and none of it very interesting.But, going back twenty years or so, with the "Born Again" Album, "Trouble in Paradise", "Little Criminals", and especially "Land of Dreams" we were given really very good MUSIC. I should hope he is just trying to kid somebody.And here, in "Harps & Angels" Newman has returned to his earliest primitive style, as though he had forgotten everything he learned, the most symplistic Blues. Poor Randy needs some retirement. I don't resent him pocket money.

I'll toss him a few bucks. You don't have to buy it. Now, I LOVE Randy Newman, but it has happened before, some of his older albums were simply generic blues. Even where the lyrics are intrigueing, as on track number two, an old man lamenting past love, still the Blues tune is so predictable. Besides, Newman is no Black. The man could be a Banker if he wanted.

Randy must need the money really bad.

Same old Randy at his critical best. I wish it would have been longer.

I love his voice, and his style. Someone finally told me the name of the singer I've heard in movies etc. This is a great album.

This is less than 35 minutes long. I'm sick and tired of waiting for material only to be given a tapas sized portion, at an entree price.

It's a very good disc with beautifull songs. Fantastic well-known irony, beautifull arrangements, orchestration, it's all there.