Lyle Lovett
Pontiac
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AMG Review of Pontiac
Mark Deming
All Music GuideWhile Lyle Lovett's self-titled debut album made it clear he was one the most gifted and idiosyncratic talents to emerge in country music in the 1980s, his follow-up, 1987's Pontiac, took the strengths of his first disc and refined them, and the result was a set whose sound and feel more accurately reflected Lovett's musical personality. While much of Pontiac favors the country side of Lovett's musical personality, the bouncy swing of "Give Back My Heart" and the weepy stroll of "Walk Through the Bottomland" have a lighter touch that suits them noticeably better than the stiffer production and arrangements of the first album, while the breezy snap of "L.A. County" serves as a perfect contrast to the tune's violent dénouement. The second half of the album gives Lovett a chance to indulge his fondness for jazz and lues flavors on the cynical "She's No Lady," "M-O-N-E-Y," and "She's Hot to Go," and if Lovett would follow this path with great musical success on his next few albums, he was already traveling in the right direction and the songs and the arrangements are aces. And it's all but impossible to imagine anyone being given a big push by a major label in Nashville who could get away with the fanciful whimsy of "If I Had a Boat" and the stark and unsettling character sketch of "Pontiac" on the same album. If Lyle Lovett left any doubts at all about this man's gifts as a performer and songwriter, Pontiac proved that he had even more tricks up his sleeve than he'd let on first time out, and it's the first of several masterpieces in Lovett's career.
Simple is always best
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Lyle has his ups and downs, but in my opinion, his ups are classic and they just rope me in. This tune has a simple beauty in it's lyric and melody and hence the title. You don't like this, you have no heart.It's a simple song for simple feeling You see the moon and watch it rise Across the continent the night bird sings And somewhere someone hears its cry So disillusioned Keep your head down ...
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All right, one more, but thats it!
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I park my pontiacDown the hill out in backLate every afternoonWith a coke and a cigaretteAnd all of the neighbors thereThey see a nice old manAnd the girl there across the streetShe sits on her front porch swingShe never realizedWhat I told her with my eyesHow back in the second warI killed twenty German boysWith my own bare handsAnd the woman inside my houseShe won't stop talkingShe never says...
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But you find a red rose in the morning light
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It’s a simple song for simple feelingYou see the moon and watch it riseAcross the continent the night bird singsAnd somewhere someone hears its crySo disillusionedKeep your head downIf you do they’ll never knowYou’ll have no answers to their questionsAnd they will have to let you goAnd disenfranchisedRevolutionThey’ll take away by right what’s yoursAnd make you martyrs of your own causeW
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