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Guilty: 30 Years of Randy Newman

Randy Newman - Guilty: 30 Years of Randy Newman Audio CD

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Band: Randy Newman
Title: Guilty: 30 Years of Randy Newman
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Release Date: 1998-11-03
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Love Story (You and Me) 2: Bet No One Ever Hurt This Bad 3: Cowboy 4: Beehive State 5: I Think It's Going to Rain Today 6: Davy the Fat Boy 7: Have You Seen My Baby? 8: Let's Burn Down the Cornfield 9: Mama Told Me (Not to Come) 10: Suzanne 11: Old Kentucky Home 12: Sail Away 13: Lonely at the Top 14: Last Night I Had a Dream 15: Political Science 16: Burn On 17: Memo to My Son 18: You Can Leave Your Hat On 19: God's Song (That's Why I Love Mankind) 20: Rednecks 21: Birmingham 22: Marie 23: Guilty 24: Louisiana 1927 25: Kingfish 26: Baltimore 27: Rider in the Rain 28: Short People 29: Little Criminals 30: In Germany Before the War 31: I'll Be Home 32: It's Money That I Love 33: Ghosts 34: Girls in My Life, Pt. 1 35: William Brown 36: I Love L.A. 37: Mikey's 38: My Life Is Good 39: Miami 40: Real Emotional Girl 41: Take Me Back 42: Song for the Dead 43: Dixie Flyer 44: New Orleans Wins the War 45: Four Eyes 46: It's Money That Matters 47: I Want You to Hurt Like I Do 48: Can't Keep a Good Man Down 49: Bleeding All over the Place [Alternate Mix][#] 50: Happy Ending 51: Golden Gridiron Boy 52: Vine Street [#][Demo Version] 53: Love Is Blind [#][Demo Version] 54: Don't Ruin Our Happy Home [#][Demo Version] 55: Goat [#] 56: Gone Dead Train 57: Tickle Me [Live] 58: Maybe I'm Doing It Wrong [Live] 59: Yellow Man [Live] 60: Magic in the Moonlight [Live][#] 61: Beat Me Baby [#][Demo Version] 62: Simon Smith and the Amazing Dancing Bear 63: Let Me Go [#] 64: Jesus in the Summertime [#][Demo Version] 65: Going Home (1918) [#][Demo Version] 66: Interiors [#][Demo Version] 67: Pretty Boy 68: Something to Sing About [#][Demo Version] 69: Ballad of the Three Amigos [#][Demo Version] 70: My Little Buttercup [#][Demo Version] 71: Blue Shadows on the Trail [#][Demo Version] 72: Happy [#][Demo Version] 73: Longest Night [#][Demo Version] 74: Days of Heaven [#][Demo Version] 75: What Have You Done to Me [#][Demo Version] 76: Masterman and Baby J [#][Demo Version] 77: Lines in the Sand 78: Gainesville [#][Demo Version] 79: Feels Like Home [Live][#] 80: My Name Is James [#][Demo Version] 81: Laugh and Be Happy [#][Demo Version] 82: Rev Running [From Cold Turkey][#] 83: Change Your Way [From Ragtime] 84: Clef Club, No. 1 [From Ragtime] 85: Clef Club, No. 2 [From Ragtime] 86: Ragtime [From Ragtime] 87: Prologue 1915-1923 [From the Natural] 88: Natural [From the Natural] 89: Introduction/I Love to See You Smile [From Parenthood] 90: Kevin's Party (Cowboy Gil) [From Parenthood] 91: 1914 [From Avalon] 92: End Title [From Avalon] 93: Leonard [From Awakenings] 94: Dexter's Tune [From Awakenings] 95: Clocks [From the Paper] 96: Make up Your Mind [From the Paper] 97: Opening [From Maverick] 98: Tartine de Merde [From Maverick] 99: You've Got a Friend in Me [From Toy Story] 100: Woody and Buzz [From Toy Story] 101: I Will Go Sailing No More [From Toy Story] 102: Heaven Is My Home [From Michael] - Valerie Carter, Randy Newman 103: James and the Giant Peach Main Title [From James and the Giant Peach] 104: Clouds [From James and the Giant Peach] 105: Good News [From James and the Giant Peach]

One of the Best Albums Ever
I was pleased with the way Randy organized the tunes and his comments showcase his unique sense of humor. Without question Randy Newman's seminal work "Guilty: 30 Years of Randy Newman" is a "must have" for anyone who appreciates his music, and especially someone who likes to understand the lyrics to a well written tune.

Anyone who writes a song about turning Australia into an amusement park for Americans will always receive my full respect and attention.

Dave Gubanc.

4 stars for Randy
Enjoyable to listen to!. This album had many good songs and typical Randy Newman style.

God! Is Randy Newman the most underrated artist of our times?
I adore his work. I have bought all the above Randy Newman CD's. Agree that "Guilty" is up there with Randy Newman songbook 1. But truly every song this wonderful man writes is a gem. Every single one. I have many friends who've never heard of him??? I have closer friends who love him as I do.

Folks do not cheat yrselves. Buy one album of the two above and write a review yourself. He's a genius, underappreciated for too long. Or go here him in concert. He's great, the best, my favorite and I love all kinds of music. RN is for that dessert island, the only one you are allowed to take. Think about it.

Randy in the Wintertime
Randy Newman on the stereo on Christmas morning is about as Newmanesque a way to disturb the warmth of home and hearth as you can imagine. I've been a Randy Newman fan "ever since there WUZ no Randy Newman," and so picture my delight when my very own kids bought me this boxed bonanza for Christmas (so I wouldn't have to). At one time or another I've owned every Newman album ever recorded, so I needed this collection like another hole in the head, but I have to recommend it as much for the surprisingly revealing biographical data as for the song selections. There are surprises here for even an old Newman trivialist like myself, and it was a relief to read of Randy's hardships as well as successes, since the dark side of this dark soul has too often been danced around in past articles and interviews. We learn that Randy's father, Irving Newman, MD, was an overbearing and cantankerous coot not above slugging it out with perfect strangers on public highways. We learn that the distracting eye condition Randy was born with, and the failed surgical attempt to correct it, may have helped to mold not only Newman's unique world view, but his discomfort with public attention. Interviewers (myself included) have generally conceded that "Randy Newman just can't look you in the eye," but then, why should he when he has such a gift for cutting straight to the heart with his nostalgic sentiments and shark-attack wit. Of the many selections in this package, my standouts are his 1962 demo Golden Gridiron Boy, a delight to hear at long last since throughout Newman's career it has appeared as nothing more than a musical history anecdote. Turns out it is a quite competent version of that idiotic pop sub-genre of the '50s and early '60s when unrequited love burned teenybopping hearts alive to the accompanyment of snickering female vocal backups. Then comes Jesus in the Summertime, the highly unlikely mock spirtual that has the distinction of having been so offensive to so many ears that a session musician actually walked out of the studio rather than play on it. Now THAT's chutzpah! Personally, I like it, and find nothing offensive about it, other than the fact that it has the name Jesus in the title. Finally, there's Laugh and Be Happy, an unfortunately incomplete demo that features Newman at his Tin-Pan-Alley best, with a catchy ragtime riff and a delightfully mocking lyric. This number is for my money one of the best tracks ever laid down by one of our most consistently rewarding, if challenging, singer-songwriters. Thanks for the memories, Randy! .

Way to go Randy!
He is a song writer, a singer, and last but not least at all, a film composer. Well, first, Randy Newman is unbelievably talented. And what a composer! This multi talent has a family name, which can be a real pain in the ars. But Randy seems not to be bothered by it at all. He wrote some of the most beautiful scores of the 90-s. His music for Pleasantville should have won him an Oscar. But remember The Natural, Toy Story, Awakenings, just to name a few. This really nice compilation and anthology gives Newman the treatment he has long time deserved. I love the title: Guilty: 30 years of Randy Newman. This man does not seem to take himself serious. Yet his art is pretty serious, and he is aware of it very much. Randy Newman is there in the world of music, yet he is not there. You have to listen to this man to get to know him, and once you meet him, you do not want to part from him, he will be a friend of yours forever.
Randy Newman is right by the side of the greatest composers, Williams, Goldsmith, Bernstein or his late uncle Alfred Newman.
Buy this anthology and get to know this musical giant.

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