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Gordon Lightfoot - East of Midnight Audio CD

A fair review of the Gordon Lightfoot "East of Midnight" 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 Gordon Lightfoot reviews here, or go back to the Gordon Lightfoot tabs.

Gordon Lightfoot Band: Gordon Lightfoot
Title: East of Midnight
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Release Date: 1990-10-25
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Stay Loose 2: Morning Glory 3: East of Midnight 4: Lesson in Love 5: Anything for Love 6: Let It Ride 7: Ecstasy Made Easy 8: You Just Gotta Be 9: Passing Ship 10: I'll Tag Along

OCEANIC DELIGHT
Great songs. I enjoy this album the most in the Spring. Morning Glory, Passing Ship are my favorites. A breath of fresh air as always with Gordo. Much different than his other albums, but nonetheless.


Gordon Lightfoot
Bought to replace the same cassette recording. Great CD. A very pleasant and up beat 80's style change from his traditional folk style. Very pleased.


The style is dated, but the substance remains
The lyrics here are much more poetic and playful than the cut-and-paste jobs Dylan has forced us to endure in his latest, Modern Times. Up front, I will take this over late-period Bob Dylan any day.

Lightfoot's melodies and hooks are strong, his singing is strong, the song structure is solid. What is a little off-putting at times is his apparent attempt to remain radio-friendly in the 1980s by adopting the common synthesized drums and synthesizers common to the era. Anything For Love, co-written and produced by David Foster, is the worst example of this tendency. Apart from that fiasco, I find these songs hold up on repeated listening, even though this particular style of pop music sounds especially dated.

If East of Midnight had been produced in the style of Dream Street Rose or Sundown, it would be hailed as one of Gord's masterpieces. In spite of its admitted flaws, this is an album to which I can return repeatedly for enjoyment. For his next record, he returned to the more standard "Lightfoot sound" but the songs weren't as strong. I can't give it five stars, but it is worth owning unless you absolutely detest the obvious use of synthesizers and programmed rhythm tracks. .


Certainly Lightfoot's Worst
The result was horrifying. For this record, Gord put away the 6 and 12 string acoustic guitars and recorded using synthesizers, drum machines and saxophones. In an earlier review, someone compared this synthesized pop record to a Phil Collins album. Need I say more? I guess Lightfoot thought that he needed to "update" his sound in order to remain commercially relevant. The problem was that, in so doing, he made himself musically irrelevant. The production problems were compounded by a particularly weak collection of songs. "A Lesson in Love" is particularly unlistenable. "A Passing Ship" is a nice song, though.


Missing
Please note i still have not recived this CD what should i do now.


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