Customer Reviews

Blue Days Black Nights

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4 star:		(5)
3 star:		(6)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

I was disappointed at the first listen, by the third I was hooked and have listened to it dozens of times. It is best not to compare it with Perfect World which has a rock edge, this album is more pop. I like to listen to this one while cruising a quite highway. Freedys' next CD will be produced by Butch Vig, the same as Perfect World. Blue Days is one of my favorites, never gets old.

Freedy improves over Never Home. He seemed uncomfortable with those "rocking tunes" on that album, whereas tunes like "Western Sky," "If It's True," and "You Get Me Lost" were standouts to me. This is his most consistent album. No roller coaster rides from upbeat numbers to his more mellow songs. Whenever I listen to Freedy, I feel like it should be cold or raining, but it's not a depressed kind of feeling, you can just feel the cold in the song: like "Cold Again" from TPW, "Pretend It's Summer," and "Moving on a Holiday." I don't know if it's his use of tremolo and chorus or what, but I've got to put on a sweater! This album easily ranks with his two standouts, This Perfect World and Can You Fly. Freedy just sounds right on this one, like he is more comfortable with these songs, and that's just fine wih me.

I love the other ones. This one is still growing on me. After I bad mouthed it to a fellow fan and let him have it for a couple of weeks, I played it again and began to appreciate it more. It's not as depressed as I originally thought, either. As I get older, I'm realizing that much music does not reveal itself to me right away, and I only come to appreciate it on repeated listenings. Still, this doesn't seem to have the kinds of classic songs that the last 3 discs had. I guess I'd say to Freedy:' I love songs like "The Mortician's Daughter," but it's nice to know that California Thing" is coming up. You seem to have forgotten to mix up the pacing this time. Oh well, keep at it.'

This is the first Freedy album I have purchased (since I recently discovered him) so I cannot compare it to others. However, I simply believe this is a fantastic album. If anything, it has really made me glad to see there is still music being made today that is worth listening to. "Pretend Its Summer" and "While I Wait For You" are two of the best songs I have heard in years. Freedy is comparable to some of Paul Simon and Paul Mccartney's best work. Simply a classic!

Maybe I'm prejudiced because my name is Emily (also the name of the beautiful last track on the album), but I think this album is outstanding. Freedy has a real knack for being able to express the feelings others won't admit to. After listening to it for the first time, I found myself thinking "that's so and so's song ..." about one of my friends after every track because he perfectly articulates what they cannot. The album makes me want to float in the middle of a lake just before dawn and watch the stars fade away. Well, I'd better go find Freedy now, because, judging from my song, he misses me.

What a unique and wonderful talent Freedy is! His name should be a household word. When listening to any of Freedy's albums you get the feeling that not only do you get to know his music, but the man as well. This album in particular excels in setting and maintaining a mood, and is the one I will reach for when I want something romantic on the stereo.

A great CD...lyrical, musical, mellow. The top of my playlist.

In Blue Days Black Nights Freedy proves that he, like all successful artists, can grow and change. This is a grown-up work, both musically and lyrically. It's melancholy but it's not bitter; the music is beautiful but wrenching too. Listen to it once and you can't get it out of your mind.

This cd will probably not blow your socks off the first few times you listen to it. But then a funny thing happens, you can't get it out of your head, at least that is what happened to me. It is best listened to late at night or on a rainy day. Totally different than the rest of his catalog but still excellent!

I'm a huge Freedy fan and I have to say I was initally shocked by how unadorned and quiet these songs are. But as I listened, that's exactly what made them so compelling. "While I Wait for You" already sounds like a classic. "Moving on a Holiday" captures the empty solitude of a lone man moving on Christmas day. All the songs focus on lost love and alienated outsiders. Lyrically and musically, there's no waste.Complimented perfectly by spare production and unobtrusive playing. It's Freedy's most personal and eloquent work.A perfect example of the adage: the song's the thing.