| | Dan Fogelberg Captured Angel CD Dan Fogelberg Discography of CDs
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Also available with HOME FREE on 1 cassette, and with SOUVENIRS and NETHER LANDS in a CD 3-pack.
Dan Fogelberg is a singer-songwriter in the confessional vein of Joni Mitchell; his work at this time was also heavily influenced by America, the Eagles, and Crosby, Stills, and Nash. His most successful work dates from the 1970s and early 1980s. Fogelberg's best songs are generally those that have a little muscle to them ("Phoenix") or manage to transcend his penchant for cliched, sentimental lyrics and maudlin arrangements to be genuinely affecting ("There's a Place in the World for a Gambler"). This album is one of the weakest in his canon. Selections like "Next Time" and the title track are bland and bloodless, marred further by pedestrian performances and easy-way-out arrangements and production. Other numbers like "Below the Surface" and "These Days" are better in this regard, but suffer from didactic lyrics. The album's weakest track, "Aspen," is an unengagingly syrupy, string-based instrumental with odd and ineffective chord changes. A few songs are worth hearing, though. "Comes and Goes" is a short, understated selection proving the adage "less is more." "Crow" is a decent, brooding song made very listenable by an appealingly intricate arrangement. And "The Last Nail" is one of his songs that manages to grab the emotions and be deeply affecting almost in spite of itself. Demerits also go for Fogelberg's inexpert cover painting of an unintentionally androgynous angel. Dedicated fans may enjoy this album, but others may not find it attractive. ~ David Cleary Captured Angel Music Review Purchase Captured Angel CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Dan Fogelberg High Country Snows CD (1985)
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A couple of years after the pop hits stopped, Dan Fogelberg took this detour down the bluegrass/traditional acoustic music road. The result is a fine collection of mostly original songs, an album that holds up better than much of his earlier, better-known work. Accompanied by some of Nashville's ...
| | Dan Fogelberg Windows And Walls CD (1984)
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After the enormous critical and commercial success of The Innocent Age, Dan Fogelberg waited three years to release his next studio album. The album posed several dilemmas for Fogelberg. Obviously, following up an album that was as ambitious and successful as The Innocent Age would be a daunting task for any artist. Secondly, the music scene had changed dramatically in the '80s. While The Innocent Age defied trends and tastes, for many, Fogelberg's sound, rooted in '70s rock, was quickly becoming passé and the sounds of punk, new wave, and dance-pop were dominating the times. Aside from the song "Language of Love," the album simply did not have the power of his previous efforts. Although still a better record than many artists of the time could even hope to make, Windows & Walls lacked the strength of previous efforts and did not reflect the newer sounds ...
| | Dan Fogelberg Home Free CD (1972)
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This is a brand new 1988 digital remix done especially for CD by Norbert Putnam, who produced the original album.
Over the course of his career, Dan Fogelberg has become identified with a particular sort of heavily arranged soft rock. It is therefore particularly interesting to listen to his first album and hear him experimenting, seeking the balance between an overtly countrified sound and something more original and personal. Some things about Home Free show that Fogelberg had figured out his strengths well before he went near the studio. The songs here are better and more coherent than much of his later work, with a directness that makes it easy to gloss over the occasional banalities and platitudes. As always, his splendid delivery makes it easy to excuse the lyrical flaws; nobody else ever sounded this confessional and meditative while singing in front of a full orchestra. That string section appears on most tracks and sometimes verges on intrusive. Indeed, at times Norbert Putnam's production sounds so cinematic that one wonders if this is a film score, as on the opening "To the Morning." Happily, not ...
| | Dan Fogelberg Phoenix CD (1980)
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| | Dan Fogelberg Nether Lands CD (1977)
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Also available in a 3-pack with SOUVENIRS and CAPTURED ANGEL.
While continuing to grow as an artist, Dan Fogelberg extended himself even ...
| | Dan Fogelberg Souvenirs CD (1974)
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| | Union CD (1998)
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This superb CD isn't what some might expect from a band that boasted former members of Motley Crue and Kiss. Given that singer John Corabi had been with the Crue and guitarist Bruce Kulick spent 12 years with Kiss, some headbangers might have been hoping for some delightfully decadent and trashy heavy metal/hard rock. But let's not forget that Corabi's only album with the Crue, 1994's Motley Crue, was a major departure from the Crue's albums with Vince Neil. And in fact, Union's main focus is forceful yet melodic alternative rock that has more in common with Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Soundgarden and the Stone Temple Pilots than Kiss or Vince Neil-era Crue. "Love (I Don't ...
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| | Mariah Carey Emotions CD (1991)
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EMOTIONS, the 1991 chart-topping release from dance/pop chanteuse Mariah Carey, showed the world that she would have no sophomore slump. With her knack for writing hit material, Carey turned out a few smashes off of ...
| | Electric Light Orchestra Ole' Elo CD (1976)
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