Randy Newman: Little Criminals
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Randy Newman: Little Criminals
5 sep 16
I have been enjoying Randy Newman for years, and I quote here from Wikipedia just to support my enthusiastic praises expressed about him previously: "multi-award-winning singer-songwriter, pianist, composer, and arranger from the United States, known for his biting and satirical songs and for his numerous soundtracks." I would also add "eccentric, cultured, and appreciated for his many collaborations, his unmistakable bluesy voice, and the biting and irreverent humor that is often unwelcome if not forbidden, with which he speaks cruelly about 'short people' and American society and politics, narcissistic, cynical, and careless in their racism and bigotry, if not about little criminals (Little Criminals...)."
  • imasoulman
    6 sep 16
    To illustrate how gullible Americans can be: when "Short People" was released, the Little People association vehemently condemned the song, when it was actually an obvious satire on moral "shortcomings." Tough times for the overly intelligent.
  • MrGMauro
    6 sep 16
    It's true, I've also read about his social commitment in other American issues and events (e.g. Hurricane Katrina).
  • imasoulman
    6 sep 16
    Los Angeles is the chosen hometown, but Uncle Randy has never forgotten his roots, of being a Man from the Deep South.
  • MrGMauro
    6 sep 16
    I'm glad that you appreciate R.N. too, whose strength, in my opinion, lies not only in the quality of his music and lyrics but also in how he manages to convey to us a specific state of mind, or rather, a "musical climate," that you can experience in Venice, for instance, when you feel its charm even as you walk through a calle, and you don’t need to be visiting the Palazzo Reale; this is not only his merit but also that of other great musicians, who create true works of art as if they were beautiful paintings; despite being different from one another, this intrinsic quality is common to artists such as King Crimson (especially their early LPs), Van Der Graaf Generator, Nick Drake, and especially Robert Wyatt, who in Rock Bottom powerfully communicated—and cried out—the despair and anger he felt after that accident, which irreparably changed his life for the worse.
  • MrGMauro
    6 sep 16
    Not far away, in musical terms, you find the singer-songwriter Rickie Lee Jones. Can you believe that (in the group) where I proposed her earlier, they branded me a heretic, and after personal attacks, they expelled me (and the posts speak for themselves)?
  • imasoulman
    6 sep 16
    Randy Newman is, around here, something more than a talented, extremely talented musician. He is one of the editors of the GRA (Great American Novel) spanning the centuries, like Faulkner, like Salinger, like Fante, like De Lillo, like McCarthy.
  • imasoulman
    6 sep 16
    ...who has as blood brothers in his field the Dylans, the Cohens, the Murphys, the Zevons, the Waits
  • MrGMauro
    6 sep 16
    Dearest imasoulman, what do you think of Rickie Lee Jones?
  • imasoulman
    6 sep 16
    You are talking about one of the women who disturbed, not only musically, my youthful dreams. And lately, she is aging beautifully... her last two albums are excellent.
  • MrGMauro
    6 sep 16
    John Murphy has a lot in common with R.N., I believe, less bluesy and more instrumental.
  • MrGMauro
    6 sep 16
    fascinating woman, not just musically, she was T. Waits' partner, it seems; at this point, step by step, we are getting closer to the beloved Little Feat, wonderfullyyyyyyy.
  • G
    6 sep 16
    In due course, I posted this: l'ascolto di G: Nina Simone - Baltimore -…
  • imasoulman
    6 sep 16
    I actually meant Elliott Murphy...
  • bluesboy94
    6 sep 16
    "In Germany Before The War" is the classic song that devours multitudes of discographies; although I have to say that this album is splendid overall...
  • MrGMauro
    7 sep 16


    Oh yes, today marks the end of summer vacation; today we start again.
Robert Wyatt: Rock Bottom
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Robert Wyatt: Rock Bottom
31 aug 16
An ambitious and particularly challenging LP, at least for me during the first listens, truly unique in its kind, where R.W. manages to transform music into a cry of pain and despair, through which he communicates his new condition of life after the accident, although he subtly reveals a desire to live and hope in the final track.
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