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Music : Strange Weirdos: Music From And Inspired By The Film Knocked Up
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Strange Weirdos: Music From And Inspired By The Film Knocked Up by: Loudon Wainwright III List Price: £16.99 CD-Charts Price: £10.68 You Save: £6.31 (37%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0888072303010 Format: Soundtrack Label: Universal Classics Manufacturer: Universal Classics Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Universal Classics Release Date: June 04, 2007 Running Time: 48 minutes Studio: Universal Classics Sales Rank: 11225 MPN: 30301 Disc 1:
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 Rating:  - His finest album in 25 yearsReading the review below you have to wonder how many Loudon Wainright III albums he's actually listened to. In his time LW III has written the two most resonant songs about the death of a parent - his father Loudon Wainwright Junior in 'Sometimes I Forget' (on the album History) and his mother in 'Homeless' (on the album Last Man On Earth). My advice? Wait until your mother dies. Listen to Homeless. And sob into you loudspeakers. I did. Strange Weirdos is just wonderful, a huge range of songs, and for a welcome change, some arrangements that really let the songs shine their brightest. Having amassed something like 20 Loudo albums, this is the one I've played the most repeatedly. Collaboration is obviously good for him. ... Read More: Rating:  - The Irony Is In Loudon's Sense Of IronyAmong the long roster of lyricists who dabble in humor and irony, Loudon Wainwright III doesn't rank among the heavyweights.He's too novel for that, as you'd expect from a guy who wrote "Dead Skunk in the Middle of the Road." His words lack the punch of a satirist like Randy Newman, his jokes the urbane-light wit of someone like Lyle Lovett. When he gets sanguine about a person or place, Wainwright again falls short of, say, Paul Simon on a good day or Tom Waits on a bad one" Timothy Finn. That said, this is one of Loudon Wainwright's best CD's. This is a soundtrack album from the film 'Knocked Up" , about parenthood and it is put together a little like life. A mix of old, pesent, new and future. You forget this is a film soundtrack, ... Read More: |
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