... I found out that it was an album entitled "Forever Blue". Along with expecting and awaiting its release date, I found out the story behind many of the songs that would be featured on the album.
At the time, Chris has broken up with his long time girlfriend. Loving the girl completely, ... Read review
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While I was watching a country music channel quite a few years back, I was captivated by Chris Isaak's video for "Somebody's Crying". It wasn't just the video that had me interested, although Issak is always very handsome, and he appeared to be very much so during the footage, but rather the song. I have been a fan of Isaak's ever since his work with David Lynch on the "Wild at Heart" Soundtrack. His "Wicked Game" is ... ...the songs of yesterday that inspired Isaak, such performers as Roy Orbison and Elvis.
Loving "Somebody's Crying", I started looking for the album it would appear on. I found out that it was an album entitled "Forever Blue". Along with expecting and awaiting its release date, I found out the story behind many of the songs that would be featured on the album.
At the time, Chris has broken up with his ... more
While I was watching a country music channel quite a few years back, I was captivated by Chris Isaak's video for "Somebody's Crying". It wasn't just the video that had me interested, although Issak is always very handsome, and he appeared to be very much so during the footage, but rather the song. I have been a fan of Isaak's ever since his work with David Lynch on the "Wild at Heart" Soundtrack. His "Wicked Game" is a pure and haunting classic. It is clearly washed in the songs of yesterday that inspired Isaak, such performers as Roy Orbison and Elvis.
Loving "Somebody's Crying", I started looking for the album it would appear on. I found out that it was an album entitled "Forever Blue". Along with expecting and awaiting its release date, I found out the story behind many of the songs that would be featured on the album.
At the time, Chris has broken up with his long time girlfriend. Loving the girl completely, his heart was broken and he decided, like most artists, to turn that pain into creation. When I finally was able to purchase "Forever Blue" I was not let down.
The agony that Isaak was feeling at the time is perfectly captured on this album. It is probably a feeling, unfortunately, felt by anyone who has had a broken heart. The songs on "Forever Blue" are not a cheery lot, but each one is beautiful and quite haunting in its own right and way.
The feeling of lonliness and wondering if the seperated lover feels that same pain is encapsuled in "Somebody's Crying". The haunting landscape of a lover scorned is laid perfectly bared by the truly beautiful "Changed Your Mind". Such pain is also the flipside of a certain anger which is brought to life in such tracks as "Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing" and "Go Walking Down There". There is a yearning plea for hope with "Don't Leave Me on My Own" and lastly a certain cheerful pessimism with "I Believe".
For those who have been left with a tortured heart and searching soul you can find that mood perfectly captured in Chris Isaak's "Forever Blue".
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Product details
Title
Forever Blue
Performer
Chris Isaak
Genre
Rock & Pop
Release Date
31/07/2000
Recomended Retail Price
10.99 GBP
Original Release Year
1995
Label / Distributor
Reprise / Cinram Logistics
Engineer
Mark Needham
Producer
Erik Jacobsen
Pieces in Set
1
Studio / Live
Studio
Stereo
Stereo
Format
Performer
EAN
93624584520
Catalogue Number
9362458452
Additional notes
Album Notes
Personnel: Chris Isaak (vocals, guitar); Jimmy Pugh (Hammond B-3 organ); Rowland Salley (bass, vocals); Kenney Dale Johnson (drums, vocals); Gregg Arreguin, Frank Martin, Jason Morgan, David Grissom, Bruce Kaphan. All songs written by Chris Isaak. FOREVER BLUE was nominated for a 1996 Grammy Award for Best Rock Album. "Somebody's Crying" was nominated for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance. What most people remember about Chris Isaak's infamous video for the 1989 single "Wicked Game" is that he gets the beautiful woman. That's because most people weren't listening. Chris Isaak's entire oeuvre is about losing beautiful women, and he has lost them with a heart-rending relentlessness that makes Roy Orbison seem like a romantic success in comparison. The remarkable FOREVER BLUE, his fifth album, was written after a personal event that Isaak says "wasn't actually like a break up. It was like an explosion." For someone who seems to almost cultivate romantic depression, that must have been nothing short of inspirational, and on FOREVER BLUE he turns the resulting emotions (sadness, bitterness, loneliness) into a sustained thesis on the wicked game of love. The growling, swamp-blues opener "Baby Did A Bad Bad Thing" portrays true love as a knife, a thing that hurts more and more the deeper it goes. It begins with the question "You ever love someone so much you thought your little heart was gonna break in two?" Isaak obviously has, and he seems to relish the inevitable hurt, as if the pain fuels his engine. With reverb-drenched guitars and trembling organs setting a plaintive mood that you might call high lonesome rockabilly, Isaak sings about it in low, sexy whispers and high, wailing cries, sometimes within the same line. "No reason left for living," he sighs in the young-Elvis-like title-ballad, and then he remembers one--"new tears to cry." In the disarmingly peppy "I Believe," he professes his belief in "lovers walking side by side" and "a beautiful day." But, of course, there's a punchline: "not for me/And not for you." That's because you walked into his world, and he's going to pull you under, too.
Album Reviews
Musician (7/95, p.109) - "...It's not just that his stylistic range has increased...but that he's added to the music's dynamic and emotional range. It's one thing to leap into falsetto, Roy Orbison-style...something else again to move from whispered hope to full-throated faith as easily as he does..." Q (6/95, p.123) - 3 Stars - Good - "...sticks to the tried and tested loveless formula as though doomed to be forever haunted by the ghosts of Roy Orbison and rock'n'roll past....No surprises, but no disappointment either." Melody Maker (6/17/95, p.36) - "...What's different about FOREVER BLUE is that the arch, semi-ironic, coffee-table cool of, say, `Dancing' or `Wicked Game' has been abandoned for wracked, self-abasing misery, and sounds the better for it..." NME (6/3/95, p.48) - 7 (out of 10) - "...when Isaak transcends his influences...it's impossible not to be seduced by that crushed velvet, Elvis Orbison voice. The hushed title track creeps into smoochy Chet Baker territory...like a timeless jazz-club standard..."
Titles on disc 1
1.
Somebody's Crying
2.
Don't Leave Me On My Own
3.
Forever Blue
4.
Goin' Nowhere
5.
Shadows In A Mirror
6.
End Of Everything
7.
Graduation Day
8.
I Believe
9.
Change Your Mind
10.
There She Goes
11.
Things Go Wrong
12.
Baby Did A Bad Bad Thing
13.
Go Walking Down There
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