Chris De Burgh - Man on the Line
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Artist: Chris De BurghEdition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 1985-04-10
Music Label: Universal Int'l
Soundtracks:
- The Ecstasy Of Flight (I Love The Night)
- Sight And Touch
- Taking It To The Top
- The Head And The Heart
- The Sound Od A Gun
- High On Emotion
- Much More Than This
- Man On The Line
- Moonlight And Vodka
- Transmission
Music reviews of Man on the Line
Music Review: Deeply personal recording
Rating: 4 Stars
I think DeBurgh was trying too hard with this release. The success of Don't Pay the Ferryman -- in my opinion -- seemed to convince him that his strength was in a powerful song, and he tried to recreate DPTF's energy here, as there were several songs that seemed very commercial, and were engineered more for pop appeal than art. That said, this is still another deeply personal recording for DeBurgh, perhaps more so than others. I could be nuts, but I have always believed that he and his wife, "Na" were going through a rough spot in their relationship, and that boiled over into this music. The title song, Man on the Line, is revealing in that it is about a woman receiving mysterious phone calls from a strange man. "There's a man on the line, and he is wasting our time, he calls me day after day, he's got nothing to say, and in the dead of the night, when I turn off the light, the telephone rings, it's him again. He must be totally crazy, he must be out of his mind, to be in love with a lady, ah when that lady is mine, he's whispering your name...whispering your name" (Forgive me if the words aren't exact, I did it from memory -- you get the idea.)
As on all of his albums, DeBurgh has one song that stands out far above the rest, and on this album it is The Head and the Heart. I have never, and likely will never, hear a song that better characterizes a person torn between love and logic. The head is saying "it's time to let her go," but the heart yearns that "I don't want to let her go". Even now, remembering the haunting vocal and melody, I shiver. It's played out in the theater of his mind and soul, and even someone with a heart as cold as an Antarctic bath would be touched.
Edit 8/12/07: Over the past two years (since the iPod entered my home) I've found that I listen to this recording all the way through more than DeBurgh's other recordings. I couldn't be more surprised. If I were rating the CD today, it would get a 4.5 from me, rounded up to a 5. The "high energy" music is still appealing to me, some fourteen years or so after its release.
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