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Joe Walsh - Songs for a Dying Planet Audio CD

A fair review of the Joe Walsh "Songs for a Dying Planet" 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 Joe Walsh reviews here, or go back to the Joe Walsh tabs.

Joe Walsh Band: Joe Walsh
Title: Songs for a Dying Planet
Rating:
Release Date: 1992-08-11
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Shut Up 2: Fairbanks Alaska 3: Coyote Love 4: I Know 5: Certain Situations 6: Vote for Me 7: Theme from Baroque Weirdos 8: Friend Song 9: It's All Right 10: Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow 11: Decades 12: Song for a Dying Planet

"maybe a forgotten album, by joe walsh"
although it may not be joe at his best. . . . . . . . and it does not have the classic touch of joe's earlier works such as Barnstorm,The Smoker You Drink, the Player You Get,So What,But Seriously, Folks. . . etc,

Songs for a Dying Planet is the tenth studio cut by joe released in 1992, still has some high points and is out of print, so it would still be worth adding to your joe walsh collection.

track listing:-
"Shut Up" - 3:19
"Fairbanks Alaska" - 3:27
"Coyote Love" (Joe Vitale, Walsh) - 4:43
"I Know" - 1:45
"Certain Situations" - 4:34
"Vote for Me" (Vitale, Walsh) - 4:21
"Theme from Baroque Weirdos" (Bill Szymczyk, Vitale) - 1:33
"The Friend Song" - 3:33
"It's All Right" - 3:25
"Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow" (Gerry Goffin, Carole King) - 3:59
"Decades" - 12:02
"Song for a Dying Planet" - 2:00
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Joe Walsh - His Most Overlooked Album
To me this is probably Joe's most underrated album. After several lackluster albums Walsh pulled a complete 360 and came out with one of his best albums of his career in my opinion with "Dying Planet". It pretty much tanked at the cash register and I don't think it even charted in the top 200. The single "Vote For Me" got a little bit of airplay on AOR stations, but quickly faded away. This is really sad as the album contains a bunch of great songs highlighted by what may be the best thing he has ever written called "Decades". "Decades" is a 12 minute long epic that takes a travel in time through the history of the U. S. in the last century. A few of the lyrics are slightly awkward, but for the most part this is a great little piece of work. The rest of the album also very good. "Shut Up", "Fairbanks Alaska", and "Vote For Me" feature Walsh's always sharp sense of humor. "Theme From Baroque Weirdoes" is a nice little instrumental. "I Know", "Certain Situations" "The Friend Song", and "It's All Right" are just good songs. The only two things that keep me from giving this a 5 star rating are the tracks "Coyote Love" which is pretty much awful and a throw away cover of "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow". Even with these two clunkers I think this is one of Walsh's best and definitely his most underrated. Unfortunately this is the last studio album Walsh has released as of 2008. If you are a Walsh fan and don't have this one, you should pick it up.


Almost worth it


The first few songs work so well--"Shut Up" shows a fire that had been missing from his work for years (and manages to steal a couple classic guitar riffs yet still sound fresh), and the dissonant, half-intelligible "Coyote Love" melds a repetitive quasi-tribal beat and some guitar-abusing pyrotechnics into a slick, uncannily catchy mess. After battling with drugs, alcohol, and drum machines for much of the '80s, Joe Walsh had finally managed to kick those habits; fortunately-yet-unfortunately, this almost-but-didn't-quite translate to a return to form for the guitarist. Even "I Know" revisits the unabashed sentimentalism of "Pretty Little Maids" to pleasant effect. Then it slips into the silly keyboard-laden joke-cracking pop-rock filler he's been stuck on since You Bought It You Name It. It's not bad, necessarily, and it's kinda catchy in a generic way, but it's still just treading water until his obligatory Serious Song Of The Album, "Decades"--a little preachy, but remarkably coherent and it works on its own terms.

If you've liked his goofball stuff (essentially There Goes the Neighborhood and everything thereafter), or if you're old fan who hadn't heard about this album before, it'll probably be worth your money. But if you're just getting into his music or wondering why his fans say he's a severely underrated musician, stick with earlier albums like But Seriously, Folks. . . or The Smoker You Drink, The Player You Get.


J. Walsh
Its good to me. It surprised me the trouble we had finding this album. We like every bit. For a long time we only had our cassette pirated from radio replay. But it was a must have for our collection.


Classic 90's Joe Walsh

Some songs just don't work, such as "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow", "Coyote Love", and
"The Friend Song", but they are made up for by the winners such as "Vote For Me", "I Know", "Shut Up" and "Certain Situations". Despite the title of the album, there's not much "tree-hugging" here, just Joe showing off his typical knack for likeable, humorous lyrics and a catchy melody. "Decades", a 12 minute opus, also works fairly well.

If you are a fan of Joe in his synth-heavy phase, you won't be disapointed.


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