This Time It's for Real

Southside Johnny | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 20, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B00000259I
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #212,024 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. This Time It's For Real

2. Without Love

3. Check Mr. Popeye

4. First Night

5. She Got Me Where She Wants Me

6. Some Things Just Don't Change

7. Little Girl So Fine

8. I Ain't Got The Fever No More

9. Love On The Wrong Side Of Town

10. When You Dance

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Southside Avoids The Sophmore Jinx, January 29, 2005

By 

The Footpath Cowboy "rockerusa2002" (Kingston, NY United States) - See all my reviews
(VINE VOICE)   

This review is from: This Time It's for Real (Audio CD)

With THIS TIME IT'S FOR REAL, Southside Johnny not only avoids the sophmore jinx, but outdoes his exceptional debut album. This time, there are fewer cover versions and more Van Zandt/Springsteen compositions, but the influences derived from the Memphis-Chicago-Muscle Shoals-St. Louis-New Orleans-Detroit-Philadelphia-Kansas City blues/R&B/rock & roll axis are still highly in evidence. The title track is a song of high determination to succeed, whether at a relationship or even life itself; "Check Mr. Popeye" is a funny song that extols the nutritional value of spinach; and "Some Things Just Don't Change" is a heartfelt ballad expressing regret, sung so that it could be about a failed love, or even describe how I felt about my decision not to rejoin my old bowling league in 2002. The first and third songs I mentioned, along with a cover of Aretha Frankin's "Without Love", which says that even someone from a wealthy suburban area (e.g. Bethesda, MD; Cape Elizabeth, ME; Lake Forest Park, WA; Lake Oswego, OR) can still be poor if they don't have someone special in their lives, cut deepest. Overall, this is a great CD that just gets better with time.

5.0 out of 5 stars Southside's Second: Great Combination of Horn-Based Rock, R & B, and Doo-Wop, October 31, 2010

By 

DPH (Boston, MA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: This Time It's for Real (Audio CD)

"This Time It's For Real" was the second album from Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes. Released in 1977, this strong outing shows an evolution in sound from their first, with fewer R & B covers, and more Steve Van Zandt originals with additional song-writing help from Bruce Springsteen. This album was clearly designed in part as a tribute to fifties R & B and Doo-Wop, with guest appearances by three different groups from that era: The Coasters, backed by the Jukes, singing the old Eddie Bo song, "Check Mr. Popeye"; The Five Satins, accompanying Southside on "First Night", and The Drifters singing along with Southside on "Little Girl So Fine". Particularly strong cuts are the title track, "Love on the Wrong Side of Town", "When You Dance", and "Without Love" (a reworking of an obscure Aretha Franklin tune from With Everything I Feel In Me). Steve Van Zandt does a terrific job of producing, with incredibly layered sound and a good deal of echo which works well for this kind of material. The album is also notable for the debut of Eddie "La Bamba" Rosenberg, and Eddie Manion, who have become two on-again, off-again mainstays of the Jukes horns for 30+ years. Although not currently in print on its own, this can be bought as a double release in combination with "I Don't Want to Go Home" I Don't Want to Go Home/This Time It's for Real.