Jackson Browne Late for the Sky DCC GOLD CD NEU OVP Sealed GZS-1036 Japan Erstpressung

Produktinformation


Audio CD ( 4. Mai 1993)
Anzahl Disks/Tonträger: 1
Format: Gold CD
Label: Dcc  

       Tracks

1. Late For The Sky  
2. Fountain Of Sorrow  
3. Farther On  
4. The Late Show  
5. The Road And The Sky  
6. For A Dancer  
7. Walkin Slow  
8. Before The Deluge  


Produktbeschreibungen

Audio
David Crosby nannte ihn einst den "verdammt besten Songautor in Amerika". Heute wirkt Jackson Brownes musikalische Verletzlichkeit nur noch hemmungslos nostalgisch - zumal der gebürtige Heidelberger 1977 mit Running On Empty ein wesentlich eindrucksvolleres Stück Pop-Poesie vorlegte als diese Platte. Auch die Klangakrobaten von DCC konnten den dynamikarmen Masterbändern keine neuen Nuancen abgewinnen. Selbst mit 24- Karat-Goldbeschichtung klingt Late For The Sky im Vergleich zum regulären Midprice-Silberling alles andere als himmlisch.
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Stereoplay
Guter Klang hat offenbar etwas mit dem persönlichen Geschmack zu tun. Jackson Brownes Tontechniker Greg Ladanyi gab jedenfalls 1987 beim digitalen Mastering der Browne-LPs dem Originalmaster von "Late For The Sky" (1974) einen künstlichen Hall bei, wodurch die CD (WEA 243007) vielleicht gefälliger, aber sicher weniger intim klingt als die LP. Zudem kappte er ganze 32 Sekunden des Fadeouts von "Before The Deluge". In voller Länge und ohne Hall liegt jetzt eine nur wenig entrauschte Neuüberspielung des Westcoast-Klassikers als Gold-CD vor. Sie hebt Brownes Gesang gegenüber den Instrumenten leicht hervor. Dem Rezensenten gefällt der Frequenzverlauf des originalen Vinylumschnitts am besten.

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Review by William Ruhlmann
On his third album, Jackson Browne returned to the themes of his debut record (love, loss, identity, apocalypse) and, amazingly, delved even deeper into them. "For a Dancer," a meditation on death like the first album's "Song for Adam," is a more eloquent eulogy; "Farther On" extends the "moving on" point of "Looking Into You"; "Before the Deluge" is a glimpse beyond the apocalypse evoked on "My Opening Farewell" and the second album's "For Everyman." If Browne had seemed to question everything in his first records, here he even questioned himself. "For me some words come easy, but I know that they don't mean that much," he sang on the opening track, "Late for the Sky," and added in "Farther On," "I'm not sure what I'm trying to say." Yet his seeming uncertainty and self-doubt reflected the size and complexity of the problems he was addressing in these songs, and few had ever explored such territory, much less mapped it so well. "The Late Show," the album's thematic center, doubted but ultimately affirmed the nature of relationships, while by the end, "After the Deluge," if "only a few survived," the human race continued nonetheless. It was a lot to put into a pop music album, but Browne stretched the limits of what could be found in what he called "the beauty in songs," just as Bob Dylan had a decade before.