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| ARTIST: | Arlo Guthrie |
| CATEGORY: | Music |
| MANUFACTURER: | Warner Brothers |
| MEDIA: | Audio CD |
| TRACKS: | Alice's Restaurant Massacree, Chilling of the Evening, Ring-Around-a-Rosy Rag, Now and Then, I'm Going Home, Motorcycle Song, Highway in the Wind |
| UPC: | 075992743921 |
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Customer Reviews of Alice's Restaurant
Sorrow and Hilarity Written with moving candour, the songs on this album give glimpses of a character at once despairing and unconquered that must excite sympathy, or at least pity. Arlo sings of homelessness, travelling our "Highway in the Wind", when sometimes we feel like going and sometimes we'd like to stay; of transience, as all changes with time, "Going Home" to death; of restlessness as desires motivate "Now and Then"; and of the need for companionship to "Keep me from the Chillin' of the Evening" in all of this emptiness where the raging winds that blow inside us make it impossible to "keep believing". "Motorcycle Song", "Ring-Around-the-Rosy Rag", and the brilliant "Alice's Restaurant" demonstrate how humor, which can convey delight, can also be the final expression of despair. You may have the comfort of seeing in this album another who thinks as you do, but you will certainly find a beautiful lament for the world's emptiness and a defiant humor that struggles to relieve it. And "Alice's Restaurant" is halarious.
Both better and worse than the original
The 30th anniversary edition features all-new recordings of the same tunes that were on the 1967 version. The sound quality is better now (more bass, and all). At the risk of being accused of heresy, I shall also state that I prefer the newer version of Alice's Restaurant -- more solid performance, fewer glitches, etc. But with at least two other tunes, Ring-Around-A-Rosy Rag and The Motorcycle Song, something is lacking now -- or is it just nostalgia? It's hard to judge whether you, the average listener, would prefer the 30th anniversary edition, or the 1967 original. For some reason, the four reviews that have so far appeared have shown up under both versions, even though each review may have been intended for only one.
8 x 10s
I've never listened to the entire CD. So hunt me down and kill me. There is only one relevant song, and that is Alice's Restaurant Massacree. I was 3 when this song came out, my pop was a captain in the US Army, and I remember none of it. What I do remember is, years later, when I was like 6 or 7, my pop still in the US Army, playing this LP over and over again, him and my mom laughing like coked-up hyenas. Laughing.
Fast forward 30 plus years. How is it possible not to laugh like a coked-up hyena when you listen to Arlo. The LP represents a time, a feeling, and a belief. We'd be better today to subscribe to just a bit of that optimism. Well, ...er....