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review: Chris Isaak's first album in four
years, "San Francisco Days," marks no great departures from his previous
three. (...). Nonetheless there are subtle differences in this project that make it more
varied, more open, more aggressive and better overall than its
predecessors. For example, "Lonely with a Broken Heart" sounds like the ultimate Isaak
title, but the song is delivered at a brisk swing tempo, pushed by the soulful B-3 organ of the Robert Cray Band's Jimmy
Pugh, and Isaak's carefree vocal makes it clear that the song is meant as a sarcastic taunt to a lover who expects him to come crawling back. A similar twist informs
"Except the New Girl," which is lit up by lovely steel guitar lines from Tom Brumley (ex-Buck
Owens) (...) "Round & Round" features some dirty guitar and a chugging beat, while the album closes with the best song Neil Diamond ever
wrote, "Solitary Man," which sounds more lonely and desperate in this minimalist arrangement than it ever did
before. Isaak's trump card, as always, is his singing. Like his heroes Roy Orbison and Don
Everly, Isaak sings as if it were always 3 a.m., when every other gambit has failed and there are no options left but complete
honesty. He pulls so tightly on the reins to his voice that he usually sings in a husky
whisper, which is no less lush for being held back. And when he loosens the reins and allows his handsome tenor to rise in power, as it does on the incandescent falsetto chorus to the first single,
"Can't Do a Thing (To Stop Me)," the effect is thrilling. --Jeffrey Himes
My favorite
song :
Can't do a thing (to stop me)...definitely
thrilling
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song title to see the lyrics :
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San Francisco days
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Beautiful homes
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Round 'N' round
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Two hearts
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Can't do a thing (to stop me)
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Except the new girl
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Waiting
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Move along
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I want your love
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5:15
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Lonely with a broken heart
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Solitary man
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