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Chris Isaak - Forever Blue Audio CD

A fair review of the Chris Isaak "Forever Blue" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Chris Isaak reviews here, or go back to the Chris Isaak tabs.

Chris Isaak Band: Chris Isaak
Title: Forever Blue
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Release Date: 1995-05-23
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing 2: Somebody's Crying 3: Graduation Day 4: Go Walking Down There 5: Don't Leave Me on My Own 6: Things Go Wrong 7: Forever Blue 8: There She Goes 9: Goin' Nowhere 10: Changed Your Mind 11: Shadows in a Mirror 12: I Believe 13: End of Everything

Sorrow on tap
Like Sinatra's 'Wee Small Hours', he has pieced together a collection of songs about a certain theme. Like many a songster before him, Chris Isaak has pulled together an album of heartbreak. That theme is desolation. The exception is that he has written these songs himself, and they are written about himself. Do you need to know the specific details? No. If you have been through this, you will get it. And, if you are going through it, there is no better cure. You will feel the loss and anger and desperation all over again. Perhaps you are fine now, but you want to relive a little of the pain? Yes, this will do it. We humans are strange things. We cling to our extremes - we yearn to relive the best and worst. This album is rock bottom on record.


Back to Basics
" Sorry, people. There will be some sorry people who liked "Wicked Game" who will stumble into this album and be wondering wtf about two minutes into "Baby Did A Bad Bad Thing. Supposedly a very bad breakup spurred this album, and you can pretty much tell right off the bat the Chris is pissed and more than a little broken up about it. "Changed Your Mind" is a perfect counterpoint to "Nothing's Cahnged" from "Heart Shaped World. " Vert solid material throughout. One thing to note, guitarist James Calvin Wilsey, who shaped all previous albums to some degree, disapppeared mysteriously prior to this recording.


On the road, its best to listen to it


This is a good album to watch the scene go by while letting it sink in. Everyone has a retreat for listening to music, mine is my car on my long road trips as a travelling salesman. .

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A rock masterpiece
Isaak wonderfully captures the raw emotions of losing someone in these songs, which is why this CD excels so well. "Nothing matters now to me / Now that I lost my baby" For anyone who has ever felt this way after experiencing love, only to have had it slip through your fingers, this CD is for you. He wails as he laments his loss, though he is angry about it as well. Those of us who have gone through this experience understand it very well; we want our love to come back, yet at the same we direct our anger at this person because it is that person's choice. We are helpless because we cannot force the person to come back. "So please, return the love you took from me" he pleads viscerally on "Somebody's Crying. " He is trying to cope with this loss and says some things that virtually ensure she won't come back. At this point, he realizes she is not coming back, so he lets the anger surface. The guitars become electric in every sense of the word as they complement the frustration and venting in his voice. A Hammond B3 sounds comfortably at home amidst the guitar and drums, and rock music is the perfect medium for the feelings being expressed. "Everything will work out okay / But not for me / and not for you. " With this statement, he perfectly expresses the finality one sees at the end of a relationship, as though that is the end of life altogether. This person is someone we want so much and half of ourselves is suddenly gone. This CD came along just as I was going through this turmoil, which is why I am very thankful to Mr. Isaak for creating this fantastic music. .


Chris' voice makes me weak in the knees!!!!
Everything about this album is perfect, from the voice, to the guitars, to the really-gets-under-your-skin melodies and lyrics. This is one of my favorite CDs of all time! Chris Isaak could sing 99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall and I would swoon.

Somebody's Crying is on my list of the greatest songs ever because it makes me sad and makes me want to dance at the same time. If Chris sang "please return the love you took from me" to me, I wouldn't be able to resist. There She Goes is another favorite. It makes you ache inside to hear the feeling in his voice as he's watching the girl he can no longer have walking along with someone else.

Every song on this album is well-written and incredibly infectious. I, like so many others who have reviewed this album, can listen to it all the way through without having to skip a dud song. This is Chris Isaak's very best album and no self-respecting music lover should be without it. Did I mention that I like Chris Isaak? A lot?.


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