Detailed item info | Track listing | DISC 1: THE STUDIO RECORDINGS: 1. Love Story (You and Me) 2. Bet No One Ever Hurt This Bad 3. Cowboy 4. Beehive State, The 5. I Think It's Going to Rain Today 6. Davy the Fat Boy 7. Have You Seen My Baby 8. Let's Burn Down the Cornfield 9. Mama Told Me Not to Come 10. Suzanne 11. Old Kentucky Home 12. Sail Away 13. Lonely at the Top 14. Last Night I Had a Dream 15. Political Science 16. Burn On 17. Memo to My Son 18. You Can Leave Your Hat On 19. God's Song (That's Why I Love Mankind) 20. Rednecks 21. Birmingham 22. Marie 23. Guilty 24. Louisiana 1927 25. Kingfish 26. Baltimore 27. Rider in the Rain
DISC 2: THE STUDIO RECORDINGS: 1. Short People 2. Little Criminals 3. In Germany Before the War 4. I'll Be Home 5. It's Money That I Love 6. Ghosts 7. Girls in My Life, The (Part 1) 8. William Brown 9. I Love L.A. 10. Mikey's 11. My Life Is Good 12. Miami 13. Real Emotional Girl 14. Take Me Back 15. Song For the Dead 16. Dixie Flyer 17. New Orleans Wins the War 18. Four Eyes 19. It's Money That Matters 20. I Want You to Hurt Like I Do 21. Can't Keep a Good Man Down 22. Bleeding All Over the Place - (alternate mix) 23. Happy Ending
DISC 3: ODDS & ENDS: 1. Golden Gridiron Boy 2. Vine Street - (previously unreleased, demo) 3. Love Is Blind - (previously unreleased, demo) 4. Don't Ruin My Happy Home - (previously unreleased, demo) 5. Goat, The - (previously unreleased) 6. Gone Dead Train 7. Tickle Me - (previously unreleased) 8. Maybe I'm Doing It Wrong 9. Yellow Man 10. Magic in the Moonlight - (previously unreleased) 11. Beat Me Baby - (previously unreleased, demo) 12. Simon Smith and the Amazing Dancing Bear 13. Let Me Go - (previously unreleased, from "The Pursuit Of Happiness") 14. Jesus in the Summertime - (previously unreleased, demo) 15. Going Home (1918) - (previously unreleased, demo) 16. Interiors - (previously unreleased, demo) 17. Pretty Boy 18. Something to Sing About - (previously unreleased, demo) 19. Ballad of the Three Amigos, The - (previously unreleased, demo) 20. My Little Buttercup - (previously unreleased, demo) 21. Blue Shadows on the Trail - (previously unreleased, demo) 22. Happy - (previously unreleased, demo) 23. Longest Night, The - (previously unreleased, demo) 24. Days of Heaven - (previously unreleased, demo) 25. What Have You Done to Me - (previously unreleased, demo) 26. Masterman and Baby J. - (previously unreleased, demo) 27. Lines in the Sand - (previously unreleased) 28. Gainesville - (previously unreleased, demo) 29. Feels Like Home - (previously unreleased) 30. My Name Is James - (previously unreleased, demo) 31. Laugh and Be Happy - (previously unreleased, demo)
DISC 4: FILM MUSIC: 1. Rev. Running - (previously unreleased, from "Cold Turkey") 2. Change Your Way - (from "Ragtime") 3. Clef Club No. 1 - (from "Ragtime") 4. Clef Club No. 2 - (from "Ragtime") 5. Ragtime - (from "Ragtime") 6. Prologue 1915-1923 - (from "The Natural") 7. Natural, The - (from "The Natural") 8. Introduction (from "Parenthood") / I Love To See You Smile (from "Parenthood") 9. Kevin's Party (Cowboy Gil) - (from "Parenthood") 10. 1914 - (from "Avalon") 11. End Titles - (from "Avalon") 12. Leonard - (from "Awakenings") 13. Dexter's Tune - (from "Awakenings") 14. Clocks - (from "The Paper") 15. Make up Your Mind - (from "The Paper") 16. Opening - (from "Maverick") 17. Tartine de Merde - (from "Maverick") 18. You've Got a Friend in Me - (from "Toy Story") 19. Woody and Buzz - (from "Toy Story") 20. I Will Go Sailing No More - (from "Toy Story") 21. Heaven Is My Home - (from "Michael", with Valerie Carter) 22. Main Title - (from "James & The Giant Peach") 23. Clouds - (from "James & The Giant Peach") 24. Good News - (from "James & The Giant Peach")
| | Details | | Contributing artists: | Bob Seger, Christine McVie, Don Henley, Glenn Frey, Lindsay Buckingham, Lindsey Buckingham, Mark Knopfler, Rickie Lee Jones, Ry Cooder, Tom Petty | | Distributor: | WEA (Distributor) | | Recording type: | Mixed | | Recording mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
| | Album notes | Personnel includes: Randy Newman (vocals, arranger, conductor, piano, keyboards); Emil Newman (conductor); Ry Cooder (guitar, slide guitar); Dean Parks (guitar, mandolin); Russ Titleman (guitar, bass); Glenn Frey, Mark Knopfler (guitar, background vocals); Clarence White, Ron Elliott, John Platania, Waddy Watchtel, Steve Lukather, Bob Mann (guitar); Joe Walsh (slide guitar); Al Perkins (pedal steel guitar); Nick DeCaro (accordion); Larry Knetchel (keyboards); Michael Boddicker (synthesizer); Lyle Ritz, Al McKibbon, Wilton Felder, Chris Ethridge, Jimmy Bond, Red Callender, Willie Weeks (bass); Jim Gordon, Gene Parsons, Earl Palmer, Jim Keltner, Andy Newmark, Rick Marotta (drums); Milt Holland (congas, tabla, percussion). Producers include: Lenny Waronker, Russ Titleman, Randy Newman, Jack Nitzche, Van Dyke Parks. Compilation producer: Gregg Geller. Engineers include: Lee Herschberg, Doug Botnick, Mark Linett. Includes an 80-page booklet with liner notes by Randy Newman, Lenny Waronker, Russ Titelman, and Timothy White as well as complete album discography. Digitally remastered by Lee Herschberg. This four-disc set fulfills two functions: on its first two discs, it provides the perfect guide for those uninitiated to Newman's world. The third disc of previously unreleased tracks and the fourth, containing selections from Newman's film scores, are aimed at the Newman completist. In both cases it works well. The songs on the first two discs are well chosen, perfectly illuminating the irony-drenched, cynical, but often humorous (however darkly) approach Newman always took to songwriting. On "Political Science" he mocks diplomatic relations, and on the beautiful, downcast "I Think It's Going to Rain Today" he quietly bemoans the state of humanity over a breathtaking melody. Listeners will be reminded that Newman shone as a melodist, belonging in the first rank of American composers alongside Gershwin and Stephen Foster. The rarities disc (which features both demo versions of familiar songs and tunes never heard on a Newman album in any form) will be the real draw for those who know and love Newman, and will further illuminate his legacy for those coming to this unparalleled artist's work for the first time.
| | Editorial reviews | ...[GUILTY is] chockful of all the loneliness, godlessness, cruelty, misery, and misunderstanding the species can muster; wrapped in orchestrations so spectacularly beautiful they can only be described as transcendent... - Rating: A Entertainment Weekly (12/11/1998)
...King of Hollywood's hokum and still a cynical goat. Good ol' Randy. Mojo
...Versatile and witty, and more than just a little too clever for Hollywood, Newman's music pokes fun at society's imperfections with a very sharp stick. Dirty Linen (06/01/1999)
...King of Hollywood's hokum and still a cynical goat. Good ol' Randy. Mojo
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