Man on the Burning Tightrope

Firewater | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 17, 2003)
• Original Release Date: 2003
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Jet Set Records
• ASIN: B00009ATKZ
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #247,011 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Fanfare

2. Anything At All

3. Too Much (Is Never Enough)

4. Too Many Angels

5. Dark Days Indeed

6. The Man On The Burning Tightrope

7. The Truth Hurts

8. Secret

9. The Vegas Strip

10. Ponzi's Revenge

11. Don't Make It Stop

12. The Dog & Pony Show

13. The Song That Saved My Life

14. Before The Fall

15. Descent

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars How can this be five stars?, January 28, 2005

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George a Pletz "cult explorer" (Central PA, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Man on the Burning Tightrope (Audio CD)

I feel suspect for giving this album five stars. I mean everyone who is enthralled by a given album hands them out like a kindergarten teacher who is thrilled that the students are actualy retaining anything. Simple answer - Firewater is the teacher! Like the newly revived CVB or vintage Waits, they simply made an album like no-one does anymore. A variety of styles by a singular voice. So when they pass over the indie rock stylings of "Don't Make It Stop", it feels like a revelation. It's like a great foreign film that suddenly turns to english. So if you like a mixed bag of styles delivered by a band and a singer that make them their own, this is your ticket to ride. Simply fantastic. And while you are at it pick up The Ponzi Scheme. This is a great band that people will discover years after they disappear from the scene. Great lyrics, great music, a singular style. Though I don't play it 24/7, whenever it makes it out, I feel like something is going on, somewhere!--

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not their best, but still good, March 25, 2008

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belouski (Camarillo, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Man on the Burning Tightrope (Audio CD)

My favorite Firewater is probably Get off the Cross. That album has a number of different sounds, but comes together to make a great package. This album feels a tad listless, and meanders a bit too much.
There are still some good songs and is overall worth the purchase.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars amazing FIREWATER!!!!!!!manontheburningtightrope, June 18, 2003

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jeremy patterson (Salem, MA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Man on the Burning Tightrope (Audio CD)

This has got to be the best of Firewater yet. I've been a fan since the old CSC days, and have followed tod a and Firewaters' progression over the years since the 1996 debut. The man on the Burning Tighrope has the most experimentally frayed-edges of instrumentation feeling Firewater have presented thus far. Tod shared his drink with anyone from Tom Waits to Alice Cooper('Vegas Strip' sounds like 'Some Folks', to me, in a way, without sounding like it at all.) And the swill they left in his glass conjealed into tons of carnival-carousel, monkey-grinder sounds, jesters dancing around a bonfire, marching themes, big fat basses, angry distortions, and the empty bottle hitting the floor as you drop your last coin in the slot.(Or was that Tamir?) Overall an EXCELLENT cd--One I won't put down for years, only to pick it right back up again. BEWARE--It may take time to adjust youself.