Heretic Pride is an enigma. On one hand, it is home to the song Heretic Pride, Sax Rohmer #1 and Lovecraft in Brooklyn. On the other hand, it’s home to quite a few songs I can’t seem to remember exist. Then, I think to myself “Damn. Heretic Pride is the perfect album! I love every [...]
Folk is big these days. At least it was there for a bit. Between the Avett Brothers and Mumford and Sons, it seemed the world was ready to step away from the auto-tuning and enjoy music that’s more than 65% real. I hope that’s still going on. I don’t follow the world closely enough to [...]
This is an important album in the library of any Zevonite. It’s the end of an era, a beautiful final album by an amazing musician with the help of many brilliant, talented and famous friends. It’s truly a lovely album. I just don’t like it that much.
Heresy and blasphemy, should the High Priest of Zevon [...]
Now this is an album. My ratings for individual songs are all over the board. From one to five stars, one song will cause me to erupt into impromptu dance and another will send me spinning into a rage. And yet it seems like once a month I think that I ought to listen to [...]
I bought the album for this song. I love this song. I love the fake synthesized trumpets, I love the bass line, I love the music video.
The lyrics: consistently cryptic. After much sleuthing, here are several purported meanings of this song:
1) It’s about a man having a mid-life crisis. Seems pretty reasonable, though doesn’t explain [...]
This is my favorite from the album. Classic singer-songwriter style. Nothing feels forced. Do I even detect a bridge? And the tempo is perfect.
And the words. My god, how she pairs words. It’s perfect. Imagery everywhere.
five stars.
Only because Jewel sounds delicate does this song work. I’m still not crazy about it, though I remember once really liking it. I can’t remember why.
Three.five stars.
I don’t get this song. It’s semi-rythmic. The tempo seems off.
After several minutes of thinking, too, I suspect her use of the word ‘geppettos’ must refer to the Pinocchio toymaker, and she’s saying something about puppeteers. It seems a stretch, though. Even though I like the lyrics, like the meaning, even like most of her [...]
Another great Jewel song. And that shriek/yell in the middle was fantastic. The twang is back for this song, and I’m starting to think perhaps I should buy her country album that came out a few years back. Though the country market loved that album, which scares me. Four.five stars.
