Don't Blame Me [Import]

Marc Ribot | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 13, 1997)
• Original Release Date: 1997
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Disk Union
• ASIN: B0000070F9
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #183,431 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. I'm in the Mood for Love

2. Noise 1

3. Don't Blame Me

4. Ghosts

5. Spigot

6. Body and Soul

7. Bouncin' Around

8. Solitude

9. Dinah

10. Song for Ché

11. These Foolish Things

12. Noise 2

13. Ol' Man River

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars From the New York avant-garde, December 20, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Don't Blame Me (Audio CD)

"Don't Blame Me" is a must have for Ribot fans and fans of the avant-garde jazz scene. A stark and experimental album, Ribot has reinterpreted a few better-known tunes, placing them well within his own idiom, and also presents some of his own unique compositions.

Moody and volatile, for those looking for a new sound, this is an excellent album.

1 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Jazz Guitar on Barbiturates, December 15, 2000

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J. Christmas "joshua-one" (New Brunswick, NJ) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Don't Blame Me (Audio CD)

Mark Ribot sleepwalks his way through standards, originals, and a couple of modern jazz classics. His sound is very interesting-- he uses a harsh, broke-down delta bluesy tone and seems to have deliberately detuned his guitar. This I like. The two noise pieces here are also worth listening to.

But overall, this just doesn't work as an album. All of the pieces create the exact same deeply depressing mood, and the solo pieces expose Ribot as a second rate jazz guitarist (if not third rate). A few tracks might be good enough to put on a compilation, but skip the album.