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Pete Yorn - Live from New Jersey Audio CD

A fair review of the Pete Yorn "Live from New Jersey" 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 Pete Yorn reviews here, or go back to the Pete Yorn tabs.

Pete Yorn Band: Pete Yorn
Title: Live from New Jersey
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Release Date: 2004-11-23
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: I Feel Good Again 2: Pass Me By 3: Black 4: Carlos (Don't Let It Go to Your Head) 5: Turn of the Century 6: Do You Wanna Dance/Closet 7: Long Way Down 8: Lose You 9: Just Another 10: Strange Condition 11: Life on a Chain 12: Bandstand in the Sky 13: Suspicious Minds 14: On You Side 15: June 16: Crystal Village 17: For Nancy ('Cos It Already Is) 18: Burrito 19: All at Once 20: Atlantic City/Murray

Pete Yorn at his best
He just loves to make music. Pete Yorn is one of those guys that will never fit in a box. Sometimes you'd say he's a singer/songwriter - one of the best around. Next time you pick an album he's rocking the house like crazy - like on Nightcrawler.
Whatever you think he is, you've got to admit he's got character. As to writing songs, he's pure genius.
This magnificent live set, recorded in Morristown on October 29, 2003 (yes, just on one night), has PY shining with some of his greatest songs from the first two albums - but he of course doesn't stop there.
Check out the opener I Feel Good Again by Junior Kimbrough (terrific keys by Joe Kennedy)
You thought you knew Suspicious Minds? Take in Pete's version and think again.
The recording is state of the art - like being there, lost amidst the fans.
While you get this one, please also click into the samples of Break Up, the album he did with Scarlett Johansson. A lot of people don't seem to like her voice but I think they add up perfectly. Four stars for that one.


Great live CD
pandora. I started getting into Pete through www. com and was intrigued. A lot of the songs that would come on were from the live album and I was amazed how great it sounded. For example, I had heard the album version of "On Your Side" a couple times and thought it was great, but was completely blown away with how great the Live version was. That is true for so many other songs on this great album. It's the only Pete Yorn CD I have so far and it feels like a remastered Greatest Hits album. Just get it, if you're anywhere close to a fan you'll appreciate it and love it.


Pete Yorn Is a God!
Words cannot describe. . . if you love Mr. Yorn the way I do, you will love this recording. There is some great dialouge along with amazing renditions of all your and my favorite songs.
Pete. . . looking for a really good woman? Look no further.
I'm such a rebel. . . I kill myself.
That's sarcasm for the confused among you who might actually read this pathetic review. What am I doing writing reviews? A. . . . Get a life Girl! Do guys actually say stuff like, "I want to run thru Moorland Fields with you"? Dude, I got my Nikes on.


A Great Overall Recording
This is an outstanding live performance by any measure. I had never listened to Pete Yorn until this past Spring when a neighbor of mine played it at a get together. A must-have for any audiophile, which I guess I consider myself to be. I purchased "Music for the Morning After" after I listened to this CD and, in my opinion, Pete Yorn is much, much better live. Similar to The Grateful Dead in that respect. Buy it, you won't be disappointed.


Pete live is better than on record


Coming on the heals of Yorn's forgettable second record Day I Forgot, Live In New Jersey is an entertaining showcase of this singer-songwriters folk rock appeal. Anybody out there roll their eyes when you hear a music fan say a musical performer is better live than on CD? I did and still do when I hear people say that, as very few artists are truly that good in concert in my experience, then I heard Pete Yorn's Live In New Jersey; and my eyes stopped rolling. The first highlight of the album, Pass Me By from Day I Forgot, indicates the level of live performer Yorn is as instead of starting out with songs from his more lauded debut effort Musicforthemorningafter, Pass Me By is unleashed into a dazzling rollicking rocker that Yorn didn't quite get right in his original studio recording of the song. Hearing Pass Me By immediately throws the rest of the concert up in the air as all of a sudden a previous PY dud seems to have a few shots of sparkle thrown into it.

From that unexpected starting point, the set on Live In New Jersey reveals an awareness by Yorn of what songs truly excite his audience. Come Back Home, the first single off Day I Forgot, seems to have been in fact forgotten by Yorn, as it's not on Live In New Jersey (It was also not played at the two Pete Yorn concerts I have since attended) showing an artist comfortable enough to listen to his audience. Meanwhile the set-list makes room for album cuts such as Long Way Down, Closet and All At Once with more songs coming from Yorn's first record. Also a few spirited covers are added to keep the proceedings moving.

A reason for the CD's quality comes in Yorn's introduction to the previously unreleased Bandstand In The Sky, a song written in response to the passing of Jeff Buckley. Instead of being a downer, a good time version of the song is rolled out that Yorn refreshingly acknowledges to his audience is slightly changed so to be better live. Such audience awareness differentiates Yorn as instead of being an overly serious singer-songwriter, his embrace of being a live performer lifts his live experience into that rare meeting of great craft with great showmanship.

Even the slower song June has an audience clap along heard revealing Yorn to be continually committed to engaging the crowd. This showmanship turns Live In New Jersey into perhaps Pete Yorn's best current CD showcasing a consistent set-list from an emerging talent with songs that often do sound better live than their original studio versions. Excuse me while I stop my eyes from rolling, it's a knee-jerk reaction.
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