Bringing Down The Horse Music Cd

Wallflowers - Bringing Down The Horse

Bringing Down the Horse      Artist : The Wallflowers      List Price : $10.98 USD        ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 1999-12-31      Studio : Atlantic / Wea      Label : Atlantic / Wea      Avg. Customer Rating : (138 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for Bringing Down The Horse      I knew that One Headlight was mellow, but I didn't think the CD would be this stagnant...      Rating:      AKA boring. Really. One Headlight has a nice thing going and it continues once you get to The Difference, but between AND after that, it's soggy, soggy songs that have little to no purpose. I wouldn't give this to my worst cousin. That'd be torture. 1.3 stars.     Customer Reviews for Bringing Down The Horse Cd      Why the 90's are better then now      Rating:      A musical plethora of great songs mixed with excellent recording...The Wallflowers - Bringing Down The Horse is a prime example why the 90's rock scene is better then any other year...with its smooth mellow tunes and catchy feel the wallflowers - bringing down the horse is an album well worth buying Editorial Reviews for Bringing Down The Horse Audio Cd      Amazon.com      When people talk about Jakob Dylan these days, they're less likely to refer to his famous father than to his band, the Wallflowers, and their breakthrough album, Bringing Down the Horse. Not only a staggering commercial success, the disc is also a superb example of the folk-rock Jakob's daddy helped pioneer more than 30 years ago. The Wallflowers don't need family relations to command respect. When the Wallflowers recorded their self-titled album in 1992, most of the band's members were 22 and weren't ready for prime time yet. The songs had flashes of inspiration and promise but didn't really hang together. It took four years for the Wallflowers to release a second album, but this time they were ready. The folk-rock melodies were strong; the playing was clear and muscular, and the production by T-Bone Burnett (friend of the family) framed the lyrics' storytelling imaginatively. Jakob will never escape comparisons to his dad, but his new music can stand on its own as some of the decade's best. In fact, Jakob's voice doesn't resemble his father's so much as Tom Petty's nasal drawl, and the way Wallflower Rami Jaffee soaks nearly every song in Benmont Tench-like B-3 organ makes the Heartbreaker connection unmistakable. Fortunately, Jakob's evocative songwriting and the Wallflowers' high-energy playing reminds one of the early Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers records rather than the desultory, later work. Heartbreaker Mike Campbell even plays on "6th Avenue Heartache," the first single and a gloriously harmonized lament for the victims of America's meanest streets. "The same white line that was drawn on you," Jakob sings, "was drawn on me." He takes a more defiant, more rocking approach later in the album when he proclaims he's "Laughing Out Loud" in the face of everyone who ever tried to push him around. --Geoffrey Himes