Wrong-Eyed Jesus [Original recording reissued]

Jim White | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 28, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording reissued
• Label: Luaka Bop
• ASIN: B00004RD20
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #258,657 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Book Of Angels

2. Burn The River Dry

3. Still Waters

4. When Jesus Gets A Brand New Name

5. Sleepy-Town

6. A Perfect Day To Chase Tornados

7. Wordmule

8. Stabbed In The Heart

9. Angel-Land

10. Heaven Of My Heart

11. The Road That Leads To Heaven

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An incredibly, mysterious, absolutely beautiful record, October 8, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Wrong-Eyed Jesus (Audio CD)

The first time I heard "A Perfect Day to Chase Tornados" (on a CMJ comp) I just about fell out of my chair. Not only is the song musically wonderful, but its story and theme resonates with such truth and beauty--much like the man himself. I've been lucky enough to meet Jim a couple of times and he's just an incredible person and artist. Wrong-Eyed Jesus was my favorite album of 1997--I bought copies of it left and right (which would explain those high soundscan #s in Sacramento) and gave them to friends. White is a gifted storyteller--songs such as "Perfect Day to Chase Tornados" "Sleepy Town" and "The Road That Leads to Heaven" conjure dark, mysterious, beautiful images. That and any guy who can write a line like "I would wear wooly underwear in the sauna just to show you I love you" is a genius in my book. I hope to God his next record places Jim White on the musical radar screen. This is a talent that deserves to be heard. Not everybody's going to get it--but those who do are lucky indeed.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A album that's a genius work of art that requires time, January 15, 2004

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PHILIP J ORD (NEWTON-LE-WILLOWS, MERSEYSIDE England) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Wrong-Eyed Jesus (Audio CD)

I just want to write something here as the editorial review on this site gives completely the wrong impression. It sounds to me like that reviewer didn't give the album enough chance, and that he judged it too hastily and perhaps snappily.

One-Eyed Jesus is certainly not for everybody, but I consider it to be a bona fide masterpiece that requires an awful lot of time and effort to fully appreciate. The sound of the album is a very layered one, and it's only with a great many repeated plays that it truly reveals itself; at that point the music and poetic lyrics really do start to hook you. There's a mysticism about the whole thing somehow, and once you begin to understand the album's transcendent nature (particularly evident towards the end of the album) it repeatedly produces a smile, and makes the heart leap!

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Charles W. Miller doesnt know what hes talking about.., January 5, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Wrong-Eyed Jesus (Audio CD)

Jim Whites debut album is ground breaking music...Starting with a 14 page story in the attached booklet about how he (jim white) shouted "wrong eyed Jesus" to the complete mixture of bluesey folk music with a twisted spiritual edge makes one drool over each tasty morsel that jim serves to the ears..the lyrics are catchy and you find yourself humming and singing the strange lyrics to the amazement of gaping onlooker..."I whisper beautiful secrets down the drain pipes at night" and other such fun, twisted, music..
In a age when all music is starting to sound the same. Jim white breaks new ground and this CD is a must have along with his second album