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Don McLean
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Track Listing
- If We Try
- Narcissima
- Dreidel
- Bronco Bill's Lament
- Birthday Song
- Pride Parade
- More You Pay (The More It's Worth)
- Falling Through Time
- On The Amazon
- Oh My What A Shame
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #14061 in Music
- Released on: 1995-03-06
- Number of discs: 1
- Dimensions: .22 pounds
Customer Reviews
Much overlooked Follow up to American Pie
This album was Don McLean's first release after the phenomenally successful "American Pie" album, and unfortunately as such it suffered by comparison to that huge hit. But this album contains much of his most mature and insightful material.
The albums tone is on the whole sombre this is flagged up when you first buy it, with the sombre grey wintry sleeve. And indeed the songs have a darker tone than those on his previous 2 albums.
Songs like "The Pride Parade" explore the whole notion of celebrity and show that McLean does not want to be a chart fodder act and wishes to make his music a truly personal statement. "Dreidel" the single (and minor hit) lifted from the album also explores his sudden exposure to stardom and his reaction against it.
To balance the sombre tone there are lighter statements like "If We Try" & "Birthday Song" both light, almost frothy love songs - and to lighten the mood further an old favourite of McLean's "On the Amazon" a cover of a 30's song that is a wonderfully humourous, playful song that has the audience roaring at his live concerts.
He also explores fame and it's effects once again on "Bronco Bill's Lament" about a rodeo rider in America a theme that he returns to in his work quite often - the myths of the old West.
But for me the most affecting song on the album is a song, unusually for Mc'Lean, accompanied by piano, called "Oh my, what a shame" one of the saddest love songs I have ever heard.
So to sum up, not a light album at all, no obvious monster follow-up to American Pie - but a thoughtful, mature work that McLean never surpassed.
Desert Island disc
I played this (for the millionth time) the other day and decided it was the album I would take to my desert island. I couldn't think of another I'd rather have with me. It really is that good.
