Jackson Browne Get Up and Do It Again Lyrics
| "The Pretender" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Spanish Film Sleeve | ||||
| Unmarried past Jackson Browne | ||||
| from the album The Pretender | ||||
| B-side | "Daddy'southward Tune" | |||
| Released | May 1977 (1977-05) | |||
| Recorded | 1975 - early 1976 | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | v:52 | |||
| Label | Asylum/Elektra | |||
| Songwriter(due south) | Jackson Browne | |||
| Producer(s) | Jon Landau | |||
| Jackson Browne singles chronology | ||||
| ||||
"The Pretender" is a vocal written and performed by American rock performer Jackson Browne and featured on his 1976 album The Pretender.
History [edit]
"The Pretender" was composed, according to Browne, in a number of locations; in Los Angeles, within a rented store-front in North Hollywood, and in a "tacky" hotel in Hawaii. Browne is quoted to take claimed that the song was almost consummate before he had discovered the defining opening piano-riff.[1]
In answering the question of who The Pretender is, Browne said - "...it'due south not me exactly, although sometimes people applaud for me at that moment in the song as if I am, just in truth there is a chip of The Pretender in me, but it's anybody that's sort of lost sight of some of their dreams...and is going through the motions and trying to make a stab at a certain style of life that he sees other people succeeding at. So perchance it'southward a lot of people of a certain generation who sort of embraced a very textile lifestyle in place of dreams that they had that sort of disintegrated at some point."[1]
Pianoforte is in the forefront, played past Craig Doerge. Drums are played by Jeff Porcaro, bass past Bob Glaub, acoustic guitar and electrical guitar are played past Fred Tackett, harmony vocals performed by David Crosby and Graham Nash and the string section was arranged by David Campbell.
"The Pretender" was only a small hitting unmarried, reaching #58 on the Billboard Hot 100, spending 5 weeks on the chart in 1977.[2] [3] However, it gained substantial progressive rock radio and album-oriented rock airplay, and has since go a staple on many classic stone formats. It has been one of Browne's near frequently performed songs during his concert tours. As a issue, it is one of Browne'southward best-known works.
It was featured in the 1995 film Mr. Holland's Opus.
Critical assay [edit]
Billboard Magazine described the vocal as having "a richly complex lyric and a sweeping melodic construction."[iv] Greenbacks Box said that information technology had "potent images and emotive musicianship."[5]
William Ruhlmann calls the vocal "a cynical, sarcastic treatise on moneygrubbing and the shallow life of the suburbs," saying that it was "primarily inner-directed," and that "the vocal's defeatist tone demands rejection, but it is also a quintessential statement of its time, the post-Watergate '70s; dire as that might be, yous had to admire that kind of honesty, even as it made you wince."[half dozen]
Writing about the songs in the context of its placing every bit the finale on the album of the same title, Author Peter Ames Carlin noted in 2010 that "tellingly, this is the commencement JB album to not flirt with holy transcendence in its final grooves." He describes the song as "a tart portrait of lodge, but unlike, say, Billy Joel (whose simple folk are so often reduced to Davy-in-the-Navy caricatures) JB sees himself right in the middle of the crowd. 'We'll fill in the missing colors in each others' pigment-by-numbers dreams,' he pledges." Compared to the "sweetness, viscous erotica" one might recall Browne singing with Bonnie Raitt on 1973's "The Times You've Come," Carlin says "this ain't it. Not even close:"
We're gonna put our dark glasses on
And we'll make dear until our strength is gone,
And when the forenoon light comes streaming in
We'll get upwardly and practise it once again. Amen.
"The life of an idiot, perhaps. But certainly non a happy one," writes Carlin.[seven]
Embrace versions [edit]
Lucinda Williams performed it on the Jackson Browne tribute album Looking Into Y'all: A Tribute to Jackson Browne.[8]
Chart positions [edit]
| Nautical chart (1977) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 58 |
Notes [edit]
- ^ a b Jackson Browne - The Pretender (Solo Piano) (BBC TV 1994). Mali Yojez. YouTube. May four, 2017. Archived from the original on 2021-12-12. Retrieved June thirty, 2021.
- ^ Jackson Browne discography
- ^ Whitburn, Joel. Billboard Hot 100 Charts - The Seventies. Wisconsin: Record Research, 1990.
- ^ "Top Single Picks" (PDF). Billboard. May 21, 1977. p. 74. Retrieved 2020-07-12 .
- ^ "CashBox Singles Reviews" (PDF). Cash Box. May xiv, 1977. p. 22. Retrieved 2021-12-26 .
- ^ Ruhlmann, William. "The Pretender" ALLMUSIC Review Accessed July ix, 2012.
- ^ Carlin, Peter Ames. "Jackson Browne De-and-Reconstructed: The Pretender." peteramescarlin.com. Accessed July ix, 2012.
- ^ "Release "Looking Into You lot: A Tribute to Jackson Browne" by Various Artists". MusicBrainz . Retrieved nine July 2017.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pretender_%28Jackson_Browne_song%29
0 Response to "Jackson Browne Get Up and Do It Again Lyrics"
Postar um comentário