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The Wallflowers - Bringing Down the Horse Audio CD

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The Wallflowers Band: The Wallflowers
Title: Bringing Down the Horse
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Release Date: 1997-10-08
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: One Headlight 2: 6TH Avenue Heatache 3: Bleeders 4: Three Marlenas 5: Difference 6: Invisible City 7: Laughing out Loud 8: Josephine 9: God Don't Make Lonely Girls 10: Angel on My Bike 11: I Wish I Felt Nothing 12: Used to Be Lucky 13: 6TH Avenue Heartache [Acoustic] 14: Angel on My Bike

Still a timeless, classic collection of music
Jakob is famous because this album was a milestone in the music world. Jakob Dylan is not famous because he is Bob's son.

I purchased Bringing Down The Horse after the oft-overlooked first single, "The Difference" was released. Safe to say, I was one of the first people to own this album. I devoured it, even in my young age of 11.

This album was stolen from me around 8 years ago, and I picked up a used copy in a Hastings on a road trip. Even now, this entire album remains one of the main discs in rotation for me. I found that, with each song, I still remembered the words and, all of a sudden, I was 14 again (the year my copy got stolen, it was an album I got all my friends into around that time as well) and bouncing around my room to the poppy tracks, weeping with the sad songs and contemplating with the intensity that I used to analyze these songs with.

The album opens with "One Headlight," one of the more popular singles off of this album, and ends with "I Wish I Felt Nothing," an intense builder that opens into lush auditory landscapes that really paints a picture.

In between the bookends is the REALLY good stuff. Key tracks on this album include the popular-but-still-wonderful-after-all of these-years "Sixth Avenue Heartache," which is a beautiful duet with Adam Duritz on background vox; the slide guitar is amazing in this song; "Bleeders," an upbeat tune with great guitar sound and finally, my favorite: "Three Marlenas," which, yes, was a single, but still an amazing idea and musically flawless.

Dylan's vocals are shaky, not unlike his father, but it only adds character as a key instrument in The Wallflowers. His lyricism more than balances it with just the right mixture of metaphorical and literal meaning.

Sadly, however, this is the first and last great effort from the boys known as the Wallflowers. Five stars, still wonderful to this day. I will forever be in love with Bringing Down The Horse.


One Headlight isn't the only great song on this album!
With Used to Be Lucky on this import, it is a must have for any Wallflowers fan who already owns Bringing Down the Horse. I loved this album. I enjoyed the acoustic tracks on this also.


Wallflowers Are The Best!!!!!!!!
Wallflowers are my FAVORITE band! I listen to their CD's over and over again! They are the best band I have ever heard musically, Jacob's voice is sooo cool, and their lyrics are so real to life!!! I can REALLY connect with their songs! YOU GOTTA BUY THIS CD!!!!!!!!!.


THE BEST ALBUM OF 1997
I love it!!!!. Bringing Down The Horse has certainly proven to be the best seller of the year, due to its powerful, gorgeously-crafted songs, the lyrics full of emotion and depth, which makes the album well-worth listening to over and over and over again.


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