Lawyers of Jackson

Lawyers in Love

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Media Type: CD
Artist: BROWNE,JACKSON
Title: LAWYERS IN LOVE
Street Release Date: 07/07/1987
Domestic
Genre: ROCK/POP

Reviews

Rating: 3 / 5
Date: 2008-04-10
Summary: "Almost completely forgotten 80's JB"

Wow, this one almost gets forgotten about. He never plays anything from "Lawyers in Love" in concert. Maybe it's because the album is oh so dated sounding. Despite that, the title track is downright classic JB. Whatever political commmentary you take from it, it is quite a catchy tune with brilliant vocals. "On the Day" and "Cut it Away" are decent tracks also. "Tender Is The Night" had some good airplay, and occasionally gets some concert play. But the rest of LIL has that very forgettable tinny eighties sounds that most of us want to forget. The absence of David Lindley really makes this one a 'need not own' JB album. Fans often try and discount it's predecessor "Hold Out" as well, but in truth, it is much more cohesive album than LIL - and it does not sound at all dated.

This one is for hard core fans only. Strangely the album came out not long after his career peaked. Listen and enjoy... some of it.

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Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2007-12-04
Summary: "RICK VITO PLAYS LEAD HERE"

Had this cd long many years ago. Read all the other reviews. Somehow no one mentioned or credited Rick Vito. He contributed great lead guitar to most songs here. His guitar tone is heavenly and his techniques that of great rock master. Tuneful songs from Browne garnished with Vito's sharp tearing guitar works. Sadly only 1 album of them together. Just in case you don't know Rick Vito is one Fleetwood Mac.

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Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2007-01-28
Summary: "music is life"

Iraq/Vietnam - Listen to the words of Lives In The Balance - with an Andes type beat. After seeing Motorcycle Diaries on DVD, I wonder Which war he is referring to? "They sell us the presidency, like everyting else", is a refrain. In the present era, I agree with what he said. This CD represents the conflicts of politics, business, and humankind, but not in total. 4 songs on this album I put on my own mix along with Lawyers In Love. "Imagine" by John Lennon is my humankind selection which someone/somewhere said was somehow unpatriotic. How stupid!

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Rating: 4 / 5
Date: 2006-10-17
Summary: "A nice slice of 1983."

Being a child of the eighties, two of my favorite Jackson Browne songs are "Lawyers in Love" and "Tender Is The Night". Both pop gems, and both found here. And though the album is only 8 tracks, I like them all. "On The Day" and "Downtown" are both catchy, and "Knock On Any Door" and "For A Rocker" are just as good. Only 35 minutes in all, but it's a good 35. I'm sure he may have better albums out there, but this is a keeper for me.

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Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2006-02-14
Summary: "Great eighties pop and social commentary"

I give this album five stars because it contains my favorite Jackson Browne song ever, "Lawyers in Love." It's a clever satire of the Cold War, ironic in its prediction that "the U.S.S.R. will be open soon, as vacation land for lawyers in love." Thanks to Ronald Reagan, such a thing did become possible, but I doubt Browne would give Reagan any credit for that. Jackson's satirical sting was aimed more at American culture and the Reagan revolution. Like most liberals, he seems incapable of criticizing leftist and non-Western atrocities.
But he is still a darn good songwriter and musician, that's why I love his music. The rest of this album is also very enjoyable, with my next favorite song being the ballad "Tender is the Night." Jackson intersperses his personal romantic ruminations with his social commentary. "Cut it Away" is about the break up of a relationship. "Say it isn't True" is a mix of the personal and political, expressing Jackson's fear of a nuclear holocaust and resignation that there will always be war. Both of those songs have more of the '80s synth sound that made this album markedly different from his earlier work.
I always found "For a Rocker" a bit repetitive and annoying, but I suppose it has some merit. It's certainly one of Jackson's rarer rockier songs and it still gets radio play.