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Little Feat - The Last Record Album Audio CD

A fair review of the Little Feat "The Last Record Album" 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 Little Feat reviews here, or go back to the Little Feat tabs.

Little Feat Band: Little Feat
Title: The Last Record Album
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Release Date: 1990-10-25
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Romance Dance 2: All That You Dream 3: Long Distance Love 4: Day or Night 5: One Love Stand 6: Down Below the Borderline 7: Somebody's Leavin' 8: Mercenary Territory 9: Bonus Announcement 10: Don't Bogart That Joint [*] 11: Apolitical Blues

Great CD!
It's in perfect condition and is also and awesome CD. This CD came in about a week as Moviemars said it would. Thanks Moviemars!.


The Long Goodbye
H. W. Auden said a hallmark of great artists is that they go through multiple significant career phases. Shakespeare, Beethoven, etc. But the trick if you're a rock band is that you've generally got to pull it off in six or eight years, before the drugs and the mania do you in. The Beatles, absolutely. Neil Young and the Horse, no doubt. Joni Mitchell. . . and, yes, Little Feat. Sailin' Shoes is incomparably fresh and crazy, Dixie Chicken both newly-funky and successfully ambitious, and The Last Record Album (in fact the last LF album before Lowell George's sad early death) is really great Rock Noir. This band is world-weary, road-weary and coked-over, but wiser and deeper in the groove for it. Dark, affecting, soulful and often just plain lovely--a fantastic record. .


Some of their finest work (4.5 stars)
Lowell George, the lead singer, is in rare form for this album. This bluesy, rootsy band was at their best when they recorded the 32 minutes of this original album in studio. This is one of his last recordings before his untimely death of a heart attack.

My favorites: "Romance Dance," "Down Below the Borderline" and "Mercenary Territory. " Overall, the CD is very listenable--good for a drive or just to rock out the joint.

The last two cuts "Don't Bogart that Joint" and "Apolitical Blues" came as a bonus from their excellent live "Waiting for Columbus" CD. These live cuts are not quite in the spirit of the original, but they are good.

Rebecca Kyle, August 2008.


"I'm Temporarily Qualmless And Sinking."
The album is a bit inconsistent, and was short in its original configuration. This is a great studio album from Little Feat, and while it is perhaps a bit of a transition album, Lowell George's guitar work is great, and his vocals are amazingly smooth throughout. Fortunately two tracks from the live "Waiting For Columbus" album flesh out the running length, although they are obviously thematically out of joint with the rest of the album.

The songwriting kudos get spread around quite a bit here: I am especially fond of "One Love Stand" written by Paul Barrére and Bill Payne, although I am not as fond of Barrére's "All That You Dream" or Payne's lengthy opus "Day or Night". For my money the best song on the album is without question "Mercenary Territory" where George's witty writing, smooth vocals, and guitar coalesce into a perfect musical masterpiece that justifies the purchase of the CD on its own.

Although this is not my favorite Little Feat CD, it is a treasured part of my audio library and I recommend it highly.


A Masterpiece
It is just absolutely majestic. This is probably the band's best studio album. You have to be from another planet not to recognize that. Everything Little Feat did before it was amaturish in comparison. It's where they stopped sounding like a Grateful Dead clone. I have to say that without a doubt "The Last Record Album" is their masterpiece.
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