The Talking Animals [IMPORT] [ORIGINAL RECORDING REISSUED]

T Bone Burnett

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 20, 2001)
• Original Release Date: 1988
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import, Original recording reissued
• Label: Acadia Records
• ASIN: B00005M9HC
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #219,864 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Product Description

UK reissue of the acclaimed producer's 1988 album. Guest vocalists include Ruben Blades, Bono, Peter Case & Cait O'Riordan. Tracks include, 'Image' arranged by Van Dyke Parks.

Customer Reviews

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4.0 out of 5 stars Burnett is a musical genius (but this isn't his best album), October 6, 2008

By	Toomuchnoise - See all my reviews

T-Bone Burnett is a musical genius and everything he does is worth exploring. However, this album is probably not the best place to start if you are new to his music.

I'd suggest Twenty Twenty - The Essential T Bone Burnett as a place to start and then expand out from there.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Sporadically Brilliant but Bland by T Bone Standards, September 11, 2002

By	G. Benson "Rumplesbenskin" (Athens, GA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Sometimes T Bone is too smart for his own good; other times he tries to make a straight rock album and you get the sense he's just slumming. "The Talking Animals" doesn't quite gel, even though "The Killer Moon," co-written by his (then) six-year-old daughter, ranks up there as a Burnett classic. (It's also an amazing video.) "The Strange Case of Frank Cash..." is a wonderful story but works only for the first few listens. The rest is, it pains me to write, sort of generic. You know there's a genius behind it all but it sounds like he's trying to make a pop album. Though I heartily recommend all his other efforts, this one is just for the die-hards.