Keith Urban - Love, Pain & the Whole Crazy Thing
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Track List: Love, Pain & the Whole Crazy Thing
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- Once In A Lifetime
- Shine
- I Told You So
- I Can't Stop Loving You
- Won't Let You Down
- Faster Car
- Stupid Boy
- Used To The Pain
- Raise The Barn
- God Made Woman
- Tu Compania
- Everybody
- Got It Right This Time
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Album Details: Love, Pain & the Whole Crazy Thing
- Release Date:
- 11/07/2006
- Label:
- Liberty
- UPC:
- 094637708705
User Reviews: Love, Pain & the Whole Crazy Thing
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Keith Urban's New Album!
, May 25, 2007Reviewer: Kimberly - See all Kimberly's reviews -
My fav singer
, April 15, 2007Reviewer: Kent.is.my.name ® - See all Kent.is.my.name ®'s reviewsPros: Love him!
Cons: Nothing to cons
The first song of Keith I heard was 'You'll think of me', it was very helpful for me by that time, I love him after that and spend a lot of time to download all of his albums. Great singer !
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Pro Reviews: Love, Pain & the Whole Crazy Thing
| EXPERT RATING: From AMG Reviews Love, Pain the Whole Crazy Thing is being released on November 7, 2006, just after country singer and songwriter Keith Urban entered of his own accord into treatment for alcoholism. With Urban having married actress and fellow Australian Nicole Kidman just months before, the timing couldn't be better. After all, Urban is trying to get well at the very peak of his life thus far personally and professionally. Be Here, his last album, is, at the time of this writing, at nearly the fourmillion mark in sales. As fine as that disc is, this one is another giant leap for Urban as an artist. Love, Pain the Whole Crazy Thing is slicker than anything Urban has issued before, but that's because it's more ambitious as well. Urban is a rocking guitarist, a complete wildman on the electric sixstring, and he can combine his tough, unhinged approach to playing guitar with pop songwriting and utterly brilliant production elements that layer strings, drum loops, fiddles, banjos, EBows, and Hammond B3s. Add a songwriting style that touches on the classic elements of rock, country, and mainstream pop, and you have something that hasn't been heard in the country genre in this way before. That's right the album is further proof of his ability to stretch the genre to the breaking point by bringing in more of modern pop's elements while remaining firmly within it. This albums feels, song by song, as if there isn't anything he can't do. Coproducing with Dan Huff, Urban wrote or cowrote ten of the album's 13 cuts there's a hidden track buried in the CDR portion of the disc. The production is thoroughly modern, but feels like the country equivalent of George Martin. It's positively baroque in places, and there is so much packed in that it almost, ALMOST feels claustrophobic, but he makes it work beautifully. No record since Neil Diamond's brilliant Beautiful Noise produced by the Band's Robbie Robertson has sounded so regal and inviting. The album's first single, "Once in a Lifetime," opens the set; it entered the Billboard chart at number 17, the highest debuting single since the chart's inception. But the shock is simply that it's not the best track on the record. Urban has packed this disc with fine writing and excellent, even defining versions of the songs he chose to cover. There are a number of rockers, including "Faster Car," with its smoking, funky bassline and layered power chords on guitars and his "ganjo" that ring above the horn section, and "I Told You So," which uses acoustic guitars, fiddles, and the ganjo to usher in some twisting, minorkey electrics. Both songs are based on tight little hooks; both songs build to the breaking point and allow Urban's voice to soar above the instruments. On the latter tune, Uilleann pipes and bouzouki are layered into the mix in a melody that brings to bear Celtic cowboy lyric frames and tribal rhythms that just explode near the end when Urban cuts loose in a serious, distortionladen guitar wrangle. |
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Pros: excellent songwriting and musicianship
Cons: more of a rock album than a country album
I have been following Keith Urban’s music since his self-titled debut album and have enjoyed his subsequent records, Golden Road and Be Here. When Love, Pain, & The Whole Crazy Thing was released, I was quite surprised to hear a more rock/pop themed tone to this album compared to his previous records which both had a defiant country/bluegrass sound. At first listen, I was not impressed with Love, Pain… but after listening to the album in my car for two weeks, my opinion began to change. This album is one that you really have to spend time with and listen to a few times over before you really begin to enjoy the excellent musicianship and songwriting skills that Keith displays throughout the record.
Keith begins the album with his first single, Once in a Lifetime, a great commercial radio release and starter to the record. The next two songs, Shine and I Told You So, became two of my favorite songs on Love, Pain… with I Told You So being, in my opinion, one of the standout singles featured here. The light rock flavored Won’t Let You Down is another song that grew on me as well as the instrumentation slowly builds throughout, providing an enjoyable climax. Faster Car is a fun song to sing along with and jam to with its heavy guitar riffs and catchy chorus. The standout ballad for the record is the single, Stupid Boy, which Keith excellently delivers both vocally and musically.
Another highlight of the album is Raise the Barn, probably the most “country” song on here, which features guest vocalist Ronnie Dunn of the popular duo Brooks and Dunn providing backing vocals. Love, Pain… winds down with Got It Right This Time, a rawer recording featuring Keith’s vocals on a more intimate level for listeners to experience.
Overall, this album is quite a departure from Keith’s country roots on his previous records but at the same time, pushes Keith to the next level as an artist and musician. For those skeptical of this new rock sound from a country artist, I would strongly encourage spending some time with this album and allow yourself to look past genre categories but instead at the artist’s excellent talent and heart behind this project. ...