Track Listing

1. Pay The Toll
2. Hollywood Bowl
3. Vultures
4. Novotel
5. Party Line
6. Hey Dude
7. Nat King Cole
8. C Birds
9. Animal Dreams
10. Cast A Shadow
11. Drugs
12. Jolly Good
13. Watching Old Movies
14. White Women
15. Hairy Women

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #84275 in Music
• Released on: 2006-04-10
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Enhanced, Explicit Lyrics

From the Label
New Yorker Adam Green releases his fourth Album Jacket Full of Danger through Rough Trade Records. Recorded towards the end of 2005 in New York's Dumbo Studios with the band who accompanied Green on his recent tours, and the string arranger from Friends Of Mine (Jane Scarpantoni) - all under the watchful eye of long-term producer Dan Myers (Granddaddy, Rival Schools).

CD Description
The album cover photo finds Adam Green looking spiffy, groomed, and downright hipster-ish, and the production on this fourth album is polished and sophisticated, boasting strings and noir-ish, lounge-y touches. One could conclude that anti-folk songwriter Green is maturing, although his lyrics on songs like "Hairy Women" and "Drugs" remain as willfully off-the-wall and adolescent as his earliest work with the Moldy Peaches.

Customer Reviews

Green's Finest Hour
It's been an eventful year for Adam Green. He's gained a baby brother (24-years his junior), faced the death of a close friend, endured a Max Carlish-esque documentary-maker-turned-stalker episode and taken a job at Starbucks that he was subsequently fired from. The result of this joy, tragedy and lunacy is his fourth album, Jacket Full Of Danger.

While the baritone croon that Green perfected on last year's Gemstones is still present and correct, he's almost completely abandoned the anti-folk instrumentation with which he made his name. For this new album, Green's band are assisted by a string quartet, a move which ensures a splendid instrumental base to more traditional big bands tracks like Pay The Toll, Animal Dreams, Hollywood Bowl, and the overblown Bond-theme stylings of Hey Dude, the track in possession of the album's weirdest lyric: "Bob Dylan was a vegetable's wife."

It's not just the addition of strings that makes Jacket Full Of Danger Green's most diverse album to date, White Women, which takes its lead from Led Zeppelin's Kashmir, is Green's first attempt at tackling heavy rock, even beginning with the outrageously over-the-top stadium rock line, "You know I wanna bone you!", while Vultures is backed by a graceful bassline straight out of Ben E. King's Motown heyday, and Novotel's tale of the celebrity lifestyle is driven by a precise R&B rhythm. Later, on Nat King Cole, Green's band offer the rockabilly of Buddy Holly, while he performs his best Elvis Presley impersonation. Cast A Shadow, a Beat Happening cover, is a more straight-forward indie-pop gem and is followed by Drugs, the track where Green's arch humour and deep pathos best combine.

Most of the songs don't run for more than two minutes, and the album's fifteen tracks are rattled through in little over half an hour. Perhaps Green, with his vocals more deep and distinct than ever, is worried about outstaying his welcome, but he really ought not to, for few songwriters are able to balance wit, style and invention as intelligently as Adam Green.

Full of goodies
Jacket Full of Danger is Adam Green's 4th album already! Only one year after releasing Gemstones, Adam gets back into the studio and this time brings back the string arrangements from Friends of mine while keeping the more upbeat wurlitzer melodies of Gemstones. It works perfectly on all the songs, the strings are lush and dramatic and compliment his even more barritone than ever crooning voice while the band keep the grove tight and light; it blends perfectly and JFoD is that place where Friends of Mine and Gemstones ( both being quite different ) sort of meet each other.
Adam's lyrics are still pretty crazy although maybe slightly less outrageous than the previous albums although nothing too drastic.. It's still full of "classics".
I give 5 stars although I'm a big fan of Mr Green, his music is timeless and one of a kind, seeing him live is great fun and I would recommend it to anyone who isn't too easily offended by crude lyrics; He's definitely one of our favorites at our house, at least I know that I will listen to this cd over and over..
All songs are good although my favorites at the momment would be Novotel, Animal Dreams, Hollywood Bowl and Pay the Toll...
Adam definitely delievered on his 4th album, it is indeed very special and i still don't know wether I find it is his best album or not; definitely as good as his older ones... maybe better; If you're looking for something different from all that post punk revival in the indie scene, if you really catchy tunes you want to whistle or sing along; you won't be disappointed.

Smokin crack like Isaac Asimov
I put this album on and hated it. I really really hated it. Then, after about 3 tracks I realised it was one of the best things I've ever heard. Wonderful humour, great arrangements, smooooth vocals and just tremendous appeal. I can't rate it highly enuff. 6*s out of 5. 7...maybe...8!