Blue Rodeo - Outskirts
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Artist: Blue RodeoEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1995-10-03
Music Label: Warner Bros Mod Afw
Soundtracks:
- Heart Like Mine
- Rose-Coloured Glasses
- Rebel
- Joker's Wild
- Piranha Pool
- Outskirts
- Underground
- 5 Will Get You Six
- Try
- Floating
Music reviews of Outskirts
Music Review: All My Friends They've Gone Underground - Outskirts: A Hidden Rock Classic 20 Years Later
Rating: 5 Stars
Music legends sometimes are born with their debut album and such was the case with Canada's Blue Rodeo. Blue Rodeo had been creating quite a buzz from their energetic live performances in Toronto since 1985, but with the release of Outskirts in 1987, the band's distinctive musical vision came together on ten of the best songs recorded in the 1980's. As soon as I heard the first chords of "Heart Like Mine" from a cassette my brother gave me, I knew I was hearing a great band. Tremendously melodic, each song pulls one in and once there, the lyrics fascinate and hypnotize with tales of hard luck, reckless abandon, the need to connect romantically, seemingly unexplainable self destructive behavior, low men in high places, distorted views of reality, lost possibilities, and the unending struggle to clarify feelings and relationships. The song writing credited to Jim Cuddy and Greg Keelor was razor sharp in its' attention to details that make memorable often times ordinary events, "These late night conversations leave a strange taste like French cigarettes." Keyboardist, Bob Wiseman contributed inventively weird piano and organ fills that give these songs an added depth of mystery ("Floating", Piranha Pool"). Reviewers at the time compared Blue Rodeo to The Band, The Byrds, and Elvis Costello and the Attractions and one can hear these influences on Outskirts. But what made this record so smart was that young ambitious musicians had synthesized the best of what they heard and liked and forged a unique and distinctively exciting post new-wave rock sound that emerged from the then happening scene in Toronto, Canada. Blue Rodeo's sound and style would, evolve into a more alternative country rock sound in later years, but Outskirts still stands as the testament of a very talented young band who were fairly bursting at the seams with musical energy. A promising start for a unique band. "And when they ask you why, you say the joker is wild!" Outskirts captures this energy and then some and it still sounds as fresh now as it did twenty years ago.
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