Sunday Music: Classic Hits, Jim Croce
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stoutfellowAlbum Title: Classic Hits
Why I Bought It: This was an impulse buy; I was shopping at Target, and passed by the CD rack. I picked up half a dozen albums, this one among them.
What I Like (Sweet): "Time in a Bottle". This one sits next to "If" in my mental disk-racks. Honorable Mention: "I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song".
What I Like (Karma): "You Don't Mess Around with Jim". No, the name has nothing to do with it - remember, he took a pretty bad fall! I like the spoken coda, in particular. Honorable Mention: "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown", of course.
What I Like (Silly Man): "Workin' at the Car Wash Blues". Walter Mitty for the rock era.
What I Like (Rowdy): "Rapid Roy (The Stock Car Boy)". This bad-boy genre gets a smile from me, at least. File it with "Stroker's Theme" and, more distantly, "Surfer Dan". Honorable Mention: "Roller Derby Queen".
What I Like (Sad): "Photographs and Memories". Croce did a lot of melancholy songs like this one - "Operator", "One Less Set of Footsteps", "Lover's Cross" - and, in certain moods, I enjoy them.
Overall: I think of Croce rather as I think of Timothy Zahn: a skilled craftsman who never quite makes it into five-star territory. There's nothing I dislike on this album, but there's also nothing that really sends me. Just good, comfortable music.
Why I Bought It: This was an impulse buy; I was shopping at Target, and passed by the CD rack. I picked up half a dozen albums, this one among them.
What I Like (Sweet): "Time in a Bottle". This one sits next to "If" in my mental disk-racks. Honorable Mention: "I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song".
What I Like (Karma): "You Don't Mess Around with Jim". No, the name has nothing to do with it - remember, he took a pretty bad fall! I like the spoken coda, in particular. Honorable Mention: "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown", of course.
What I Like (Silly Man): "Workin' at the Car Wash Blues". Walter Mitty for the rock era.
What I Like (Rowdy): "Rapid Roy (The Stock Car Boy)". This bad-boy genre gets a smile from me, at least. File it with "Stroker's Theme" and, more distantly, "Surfer Dan". Honorable Mention: "Roller Derby Queen".
What I Like (Sad): "Photographs and Memories". Croce did a lot of melancholy songs like this one - "Operator", "One Less Set of Footsteps", "Lover's Cross" - and, in certain moods, I enjoy them.
Overall: I think of Croce rather as I think of Timothy Zahn: a skilled craftsman who never quite makes it into five-star territory. There's nothing I dislike on this album, but there's also nothing that really sends me. Just good, comfortable music.
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Date: 2012-10-28 11:24 pm (UTC)That said, my problem with "Time in a Bottle" is that it was the theme song of a very badly done, mawkish TV-movie riff on the same plot as the movie Love Story back in the 70s, and I haven't been able to separate the song from the movie since.
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Date: 2012-10-29 12:53 am (UTC)