We Live Here

Pat Metheny | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 17, 1995)
• Original Release Date: January 17, 1995
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Geffen Records
• ASIN: B000000OU4
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (44 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #48,967 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Here To Stay

2. And Then I Knew

3. The Girls Next Door

4. To The End Of The World

5. We Live Here

6. Episode D'Azur

7. Something To Remind You

8. Red Sky

9. Stranger In Town

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Metheny gets into the Groove, November 20, 2000

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Gavin Wilson - See all my reviews
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This review is from: We Live Here (Audio CD)

This is one of the more difficult PMG albums to like. What has changed most since the previous studio album ('Letter From Home', but can it really be six years earlier) is the rhythm. It isn't just that the personnel have changed -- Pedro Aznar has disappeared, to be replaced yet again by Messrs Blamires and Ledford. No, for this album, the compositions are guided by the new groove, a sort of Metheny hip-hop, minus any rap.

Some, but not all, of it works. None of Metheny's subsequent albums has followed this path.

Well worth the price alone is a wonderfully exuberant track #4, 'To the End of the World', which provides empirical proof that there is a God. Structurally, it's a re-working of 'Are You Going With Me' to the new groove, but there is no harm in that. I could swear that even the intellectual Steve Rodby gets funky for a few seconds!

A fascinating aspect of the sleeve notes is where each artist lists seven or eight albums of the past. It doesn't say whether these are their most influential albums, or their favourite albums, but there are a few surprises. Guess who lists Stravinsky? Beefheart? Wayne Shorter? (Three of them, actually.)

No Metheny compilation would be complete without track #4.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very Inspired...Very Fresh...Very Good..., September 1, 2005

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Andres (St. Louis, MO) - See all my reviews

This review is from: We Live Here (Audio CD)

I own about 10 Pat Metheny albums, and I enjoy all of them alot. That said, this album has always stood out as my personal favorite. It includes some of Methenys best work as a guitarist, and as a composer. I really cannot fathom all the negative reviews this album is getting...

This is a unique Metheny album, unlike most others. It contains rhythms that trace back to Pop and Rock. "To the End of the World" is the real standout track on this album, an epic 12 minute piece with varying themes and rhythms. It stands out among Methenys superior compisitions. "We Live Here" features a tribal element, proving the bands boundaries and limitations are endless and nonexistant.

The band, Lyle Mays - keyboards, Steve Rodby - bass, Paul Wertico - drums, and of course Pat Metheny on guitar, are all on top creative form on this album. Great album to own if you are looking so see what all the hype over Metheny is about, or if you have a hankering for some good Jazz/Fusion.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Risk pays off big time in spots, February 17, 2003

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P.S. Woods "pswoods" (Kansas City, MO United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: We Live Here (Audio CD)

I lent this CD to my neighbor and started thinking about it for the first time in a few years. I looked it up on Amazon.com on a lark - wow, I had never seen the internet when this came out!

I think one perspective missing in the reviews here is that this album came out at a time before a "smooth jazz" radio station had carved out an infamous spot on the dial in every
American metropolis. I.e. back then it didn't sound like a cheesy Peter White album with an upgraded guitar player. Unless you lived close to San Clemente, CA, you probably hadn't heard enough round grooves with jazz guitar to make you puke before this came out.

Personally, I'd like to hear Metheny do a groove project every few years. The good stuff on this album is my favorite Metheny music, and that's saying something.