ONCE UPON A TIME.....Little Criminals

 

RANDY NEWMAN  Little Criminals  (WB,1977) - Rock


     What Little Criminals showcases are not songs, but arrangements, plus the contributions of various members of the Eagles. The arrangements are good—particularly with "Jolly Coppers" and "Baltimore," not to mention the dreamy bandbox sound on "Sigmund Freud's Impersonation of Albert Einstein in America"—but they're good in limbo; the music fails to bring out Newman's lyrics and his singing, because both are so limited. "Baltimore" is clearly meant as a statement about The Death of an American City, but there isn't a detail in it that has anything to do with Baltimore. Where is Newman's eye for the specific, the eye that picked out the little fat man next to Calvin Coolidge in "Louisianna 1927"?

TRACKLIST : Short People
                          You Can't Fool The Fat Man
                          Little Criminals
                          Texas Girl And The Funeral Of Her Father
                          Jolly Coppers On Parade
                          In Germany Before The War
                          Sigmund Freud's Impersonation Of Albert Einstein In America
                          Baltimore
                          I'll Be Home
                          Rider In The Rain
                          Kathleen
                          Old Man On The Farm

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