Fool's Parade

Peter Wolf | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 20, 1998)
• Original Release Date: October 20, 1998
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Polygram Records
• ASIN: B00000AFFD
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #211,425 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Peter Wolf pours his professional soul into "Fool's Parade", January 25, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Fool's Parade (Audio CD)

I heard about this album on NPR's "Fresh Air" and tried it out. The first listening was good. The next, very good. The next, outstanding. Peter Wolf has poured his professional soul into "Fool's Parade," and produced a work of art as well as great pop music -- in sequencing, in songwriting, and in performing. He is battered, scarred, but still here and still glad of it. His voice sounds like Bob Dylan with training; his fellow musicians are all pros. I'd like to focus on the drummer only because most drumming is so abysmal -- either uninspired, grating cymbal-tapping or pedantic crash-booming. Wolf's drummer fills up the space in just the right way with highly creative, supportive,interesting sound. This record needs to be listened to repeatedly, and studied, to fully reveal itself. What a great bittersweet feeling it provides!

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An Overlooked Classic, June 11, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Fool's Parade (Audio CD)

Okay, so if you think of Peter Wolf at all, you remember him from way back with J. Geils. Put your preconceptions aside because this is one of the most overlooked CD's of all time. The songs are instantly memorable; you find yourself singing along the first time. And they just get better. Honest, understated, passionate. Wolf proves himself again and again. Like Dylan? Dig Peter Himmelman? Then you'll love this. The style conjures up 60's soul with the 90's sensibilities of a mature artist working on all cylinders. "Waiting on the Moon," "A Roomful of Angels" -- all the tracks shine, actually. You will play this and play it and play it some more.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Wolf back with bite, November 19, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Fool's Parade (Audio CD)

If you went to a house kegger in the late '70s or early '80s ($3 to get in, $5 for freshman), chances were at some point in the evening someone would toss on some J. Geils Band. And everyone would sing along.

While "Fool's Parade," by the former Geils frontman Peter Wolf, has nothing on it that will compel you to guzzle a Bud and crush the can on your forehead, it has the tendency to get the feet moving and fingers snapping nonetheless. Only in a more intimate and subtle way.

The heavily R&B flavored album has its up-tempo songs("Turnin' Pages," "Roomful of Angels," and the ultimate 'dis title "I'd Rather Be Blind, Crippled and Crazy,") that could make you and your significant other sponateously burst into dance while you are doing dishes.

Wolf also offers up the slow numbers, like "Pleasing to Me," and "All Torn Up" that will make you hold your baby close.

And all the while "Long Way Back Again," and "If You Wanna Be With Somebody" can just flat out make you groove.

For those of us that grew up and older (notice I didn't say old) with the J. Geils Band, "Fool's Parade" is the logical next step.

On "Turnin' Pages," Wolf sings "I can't go back to all the old places."

True, but where Wolf is at right now isn't so bad.