Previously on OPIUM HUM:
Richard Harris - A Tramp Shining (1968)
For all the derision it attracts, "MacArthur Park" is an extremely strange piece of music, and its massive success as a single probably surprised everyone involved in its recording and release. To follow it up, Harris (well, Jimmy Webb, who actually wrote and arranged the entirety of both this album and A Tramp Shining) leaned into that song's artfully overblown melodrama, and generated a towering song cycle of heartbroken symphonic vocal pop that holds together even better than its predecessor.
Track listing:
1. The Yard Went on Forever
2. Watermark
3. Interim
4. Gayla
5. The Hymns from the Grand Terrace
6. The Hive
7. Lucky Me
8. That's the Way It Was
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Very heavy Scott Walker feel!
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ReplyDeleteTitle track didn't chart too high but is a brilliant song. Great to see this here. I bought in on vinyl in the '80s.
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