Dim Lights, Thick Smoke & Loud, Loud Music [Import]

The Flying Burrito Brothers | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 21, 1994)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Edsel Records UK
• ASIN: B0000011SY
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #477,732 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Train Song

2. Close up the Honky Tonks

3. Sing Me Back Home

4. Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down

5. Your Angel Steps Out of Heaven

6. Crazy Arms

7. Together Again

8. Honky Tonk Women

9. Green, Green Grass of Home

10. Dim Lights, Thick Smoke (And Loud, Loud Music)

11. Bony Maronie

12. To Love Somebody

13. Break My Mind

Customer Reviews

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Odds and ends from the Parsons era, November 30, 1999

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burritobrother (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dim Lights, Thick Smoke & Loud, Loud Music (Audio CD)

Gram Parsons helped found The Flying Burrito Bros. and helped create one of their all-time greatest albums (69's brilliant, must-have debut ("The Gilded Palace Of Sin"). He completed one more lp with the Burritos before embarking on a short-lived solo career--short lived because he himself was, dying in 1973. He was very obviously one of country- rock's founding fathers and one of the all-time greats. But you probably would never know it from this album. Basically this collects various stray tracks not included on the first two lp's and which surfaced on a couple '70's compilations. There is a great b-side in 'The Train Song' though. The great tracks, with the exception of 'Tonight The Bottle Let Me Down' and the b-side, are on the domestic compilation ("Farther Along")--rendering this cd pretty dispensable to all but Burritos completists and/or Parsons diehards. While the songs are all great, and while the other Burritos are great as always, Parsons vocals are not always up to snuff on these leftovers. And thats actually being generous on more than one or two tracks. So, while this is a superb country-rock collection, it's not a superb Flying Burrito Brothers album. Just a good one.

8 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The final flying burrito brothers record, June 17, 2000

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Samuel S Carson (Memphis) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dim Lights, Thick Smoke & Loud, Loud Music (Audio CD)

"Dim Lights" is a reissue of the album I originally bought called "Sleepless Nights". To me, I think it's a great album because the songs or more of a precurser to Gram's solo material.

Songs like "Dim Lights", "Close Up The Honkytonks", "Crazy Arms", Tonight The Bottle Let Me Down", and "Your Angel Steps Out Of Heaven" have the "sound" of Gram's first solo LP "GP".

Then you have Merle Haggard's "Sing Me Back Home", which is a Gram "classic". One song nobody ever mentions is "Green, Green Grass Of Home", perhaps my favorite all time Gram song. He was known for singing a sad song with that aching, cracked voice, and this song captured Gram at his heartached best.

Throw in the Stones "Wild Horses", "Six Days On The Road", and all of the others, and you have an absolutely classic recording.