Stolen Apples [EXPLICIT LYRICS] [IMPORT]

Paul Kelly

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 16, 2007)
• Original Release Date: July 9, 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Explicit Lyrics, Import
• Label: Emd Int'l
• ASIN: B000SFT792
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #166,503 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
Paul Kelly returns with his first solo album after a string of collaborations over the years...he teams up with his nephew Dan Kelly, Dan Luscombe, Peter Luscombe & Bill McDonald as his working band from 'Ways & Means'. Features the first single 'God Told Me'.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Paul Kelly - Stolen Apples / not what I was hoping for., October 8, 2007

By	G. E. Richard "City Sliquor" (Nashville TN USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I've loved the last 3 releases from Paul Kelly. I felt he was really hitting a highwater mark as songwriter, so I was a bit surpised that after several listens "Stolen Apples" still has not registered the way his other recent material had. Still a great songwriter but for my taste this record is going to stay on the shelf, while "Ways and Means" gets put back into regular rotation.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 25th Album a Classic, February 20, 2008

By	James Harrison (Melbourne, Australia) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Paul Kelly is a clever and thoughtful songwriter. This, his 25th album, is a musically diverse and entertaining collection of songs that grow on you with each listen, as all good albums do. The haunting track "You're 39, you're beautiful and your mine" stands among his best songs. Actually I would give this CD 6 stars if I could.

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars His worst CD, unfortunately, August 24, 2008

By	William Adam Reed (Corvallis, OR) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I have nearly every Paul Kelly CD available, and I really wanted to like this CD. Unfortunately, I think it is his worst CD. Paul Kelly has always impressed me with his ability to create a hook and sing in a warm, familiar style. This CD has two great songs on in, "Fields of France" and "You're 39, you're beautiful, and you're mine". These two songs stand up to the best of his work.
As for the rest of the CD, Kelly comes across as cynical and even bitter. "Right outta my head" is the worst song that he has ever recorded. The lyrical content of this song is poorly executed. The other songs are passable, but Kelly has never filled an album full of filler, as he has here. This is the man who came up with many instantly memorable songs, his career is a long testimony to his ability to write great music. Here, few of the songs sink in, they are either too wordy, or the melody just does not catch. His guitar work comes across as dense, instaed of lyrical. The thing is that he is a great musican, who has consistently impressed over the years, in comparsion, this work suffers against his own standard. The sticker on the front warns of explicit lyrical content, entirely due to "Right Outta my Head", what the sticker should have mentioned was that any other Cd of his would be a better choice for the listener.
Paul Kelly is one of my favorites, so it saddens me to write this, 'Gossip", "Comedy" and "Wanted Man" are were I would start, if you were new to Paul Kelly. Hopefully, this is just a short abberation.