Fountain Of Pleasure

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mighty David Lindley on guitars, Craig Doerge on piano, Little Feat’s Bill Payne on Hammond B3 organ and synthesizers, Bob Glaub Lowell George, the album was certified as a Gold and Platinum record in 1980 by the RIAA. It reached multi-platinum in 2001.

It's about the fact that when you fall in love with someone, when you're brokenhearted, you don't see them as a person," Browne replies, by way of answer. With that he's gone, off to make the world a better place in the way only a rich, handsome Californian can. transmitted across the country. Still ranked as one of the finest gigs of the entire 1980 tour, and featuring a superb band with the All this now changes as the entire show from November 13th 1980, over 40 years since the concert took place, is now available for theIn his 2008 book 1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die, Tom Moon wrote that Browne's lost seeker's "inquiry leads him into the minefields of memory" on "Fountain of Sorrow," in which "a photograph opens the floodgates".

The song is generally assumed to have been inspired by Browne's brief relationship with Joni Mitchell. Billboard chart. Featuring the hit single ‘Boulevard’, and ‘Of Missing Persons’ written for Ianara George, daughter of the by-then-late In the chorus, highly romanticized sexuality becomes a 'fountain of sorrow, fountain of light.' Later in the album the water images are developed into a larger metaphor for death and rebirth," wrote Holden. [7]Justin Timberlake "You don't have to say, what you did/I already know, I found out from him," sang a heartbroken Timberlake, apparently referring to his girlfriend Britney Spears's alleged infidelity with his pal Wade Robson. When you see through love's illusion, there lies the danger And your perfect lover just looks like a perfect fool So you go running off in search of a perfect stranger While the loneliness seems to spring from your life Like a fountain from a pool...

concerts, the group’s concert at the Festival Hall in Osaka. on the 13th of the month, was recorded for live FM broadcast and The Hold Out Tour began in late June and featured more than 50 dates across the US and one in Canada, culminating at the LosI don't want a whole album of songs about the ocean," Browne says. "We need music to communicate, but people can't feel they're being scolded and lectured. There's a certain skill in bringing up these subjects with the hope that people then become participants themselves, and it does happen. We're now seeing how industries once relegated to being folkie, hippie ways of producing energy are entering the mainstream." There is one former girlfriend enshrined in song whom Browne is only too happy to identify, suggesting he has happier memories of their time together. Browne was only 17 when, in 1966, he took a road trip from California to New York to start his career as guitarist for Nico, the icy German model, singer, collaborator of the Velvet Underground. Browne wrote the ballad These Days for Nico's solo debut Chelsea Girl, and The Birds of St. Marks, the opening song on his new album Standing In The Breach, is about her. He wrote it when he was 18 after their brief affair came to an end, but it has never been recorded until now. With The Long Way Around, another song from the new album, borrowing the melody of These Days, it almost seems that Browne has turned the album into something of a tribute to Nico. Robert Christgau called the song the best on the album: "I admit that the longest is also the best, an intricate extended metaphor called 'Fountain of Sorrow.'" [8] Cash Box said that Browne "uses his unique country-influenced balladry to his fullest about the highs and lows of love." [9] In 1979, he founded Musicians United For Safe Energy, in 2008 he was named Environmentalist of the Year by the Surf Industry Manufacturers' Association for his attempts to make his tours green, and the day after our interview he's off to New York to join Ocean Elders, a group of silver-haired environmentalists including Ted Turner and Young, who have joined together to serve as a catalyst for the protection of the ocean and its wildlife. "The ocean is collapsing, the life we rely on is in danger, and there are no rules governing the high seas," Browne explains.