Next Voice You Hear: The Best of Jackson Browne

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Next Voice You Hear: The Best of Jackson Browne
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Artist: Jackson Browne
Brand: BROWNE,JACKSON
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 1997-09-23
Music Label: Rhino Records
Soundtracks:
  1. Doctor My Eyes
  2. These Days
  3. Fountain Of Sorrow
  4. Late For The Sky
  5. The Pretender
  6. Running On Empty
  7. Call It A Lone
  8. Somebody's Baby
  9. Tender Is The Night
  10. In The Shape Of A Heart
  11. Lives In The Balance
  12. Sky Blue And Black
  13. The Barricades Of Heaven
  14. The Rebel Jesus
  15. The Next Voice You Hear

Music reviews of Next Voice You Hear: The Best of Jackson Browne

Music Review: Nice intro, but incomplete, and too many slow songs.
Rating: 3 Stars

NOTE: Keep in mind, for this review, I'm more likely than not, looking at Jackson Browne from a different POV than many of his fans. I was introduced to him through songs like "Lawyers in Love," "Running On Empty" and "Somebody's Baby," so I always thought of him in the context of a mainstream 80's pop/rocker.

In fact, before I bought this in late 1997 or early '98, I had only heard Jackson's songs from that style and era. Naturally I thought much of his stuff would sound like that. Since it turned out I was wrong, I was a bit disappointed with this collection (I'm a lifelong music fan, yet I was 16 when I got this but still didn't know).

1972-1976 "EARLY" ERA:
-Doctor My Eyes
-These Days
-Fountain of Sorrow
-Late For the Sky
-The Pretender

Like I said, I'm not only less familiar with this era, but I find it far less enjoyable than his late 70's-mid 80's pop/rock period. I enjoy "Doctor My Eyes" as an upbeat folksy pop/rocker, but the rest are basically a snoozefest to me. That said, there is ONE other song from this era missing, which I've occasionally heard on classic rock stations--"The Road and the Sky", a mid paced 70's rocker with a great Eagles-esque melody.

1977's RUNNING ON EMPTY:
-Running on Empty

I love this fun, classic rock "live" sounding title track. However, the melodic pop and cover of "Load Out/Stay" and the Clapton-ish "You Love the Thunder" were fairly big hits too, unfortunately missing.

1980's HOLD OUT:
-Call it a Loan

This country-ish 80's pop ballad is a great, underrated effort I was glad made the light of day. (Interesting to note, this is a very slightly different version than the album one - this seems a little teeny bit better produced on the vocals, etc. It's so slight that it can be hard to tell, though.) However, the rockers "That Girl Could Sing" and the heavier "Boulevard" were both huge hits that didn't deserve to get left out.

1983's LAWYERS IN LOVE:
-Tender is the Night

IMHO at least, this was JB's masterpiece album. I love this lite new wave-y melodic pop/rocker, but so many other songs deserved a place here, most notably the arena rock title track, and the more mellow "Cut it Away."

1986's LIVES IN THE BALANCE:
-In the Shape of a Heart
-Lives in the Balance

This whole album was kind of the turning place in his career -- still retaining the pop/arena rock sound, but moving into a somber, more political one. Both these are nice forgotten hits, but the revved-up and slightly harder political pop/rocker "For America" was another hit sadly left out.

1989's WORLD IN MOTION gets completely passed. Though it's not what I'd call a great album (basically taking LIVES' sound down to a less energetic and FAR less pop, catchy level), the title track and "Chasing You into the Light" are fair-to-good minor hits.

1993's I'M ALIVE:
-Sky Blue and Black

Here is where he 100% turned his back on the arena rock sound and basically reverted to the singer-songwriter style that had brought him fame in the first place. This is a pretty, mellow pop tune, which is slightly better than some of the 70's songs earlier in the collection.

1996's LOOKING EAST:
-Barricades of Heaven

Surprisingly, this is a pretty good song - a medium tempo pop/rock hit with a youthful reminiscent theme, brining to mind the California coast in the summer. There's a definite 70's mellow AOR sound to it, like something Fleetwood Mac could've done. I don't know of any other songs from the album, but if they mostly sounded like this, I wouldn't have minded one or two more.

SOUNDTRACK SONGS:
-Somebody's Baby (1982 - Fast Times at Ridgemont High)

Classic song from a classic movie. This brings the value of the collection way up with its upbeat love song sound set to a classic/80's rock beat.

1997 NEW SONGS:
-Rebel Jesus
-The Next Voice You Hear

These are decent songs as well. In fact, I'd even like to hear a full JB album go in this direction sometime. "Rebel Jesus" is a very mellow and slow song about Christmas. Though I'm not religious, and normally a song this down-tempo would turn me off, somehow it works well. The title track, on the other hand, is a very unique, slow pop song with a little bit of a jazz and even a (then) modern "lite alternative rock" sound to it (I even heard it briefly on a related station).

OVERALL: Despite the many complaints I have about the tons of missing songs from the 1977-1986 era along with the (IMHO) overemphasis on his early career, it's still a pretty good single-disc intro to Jackson, even if I only listen to the middle of it.

He recently had a two-disc collection (VERY BEST OF) which, although it takes the general sequence of this album -- abundance of early songs, medium focus on the 80's and later -- it still comes out as a better single buy. Just from my personal mindset, though, I'd recommend getting the studio albums HOLD OUT, LAWYERS, and BALANCE if you're into 80's pop/rock with an arena rock influence (i.e. Eddie Money, Tom Petty, the latter-day Van Halen) and intelligent lyrics.
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Description of Next Voice You Hear: The Best of Jackson Browne

It hardly seems possible that, after 25 years of writing and recording hits and selling more than 15 million albums, Jackson Browne's never been anthologized. Includes two brand-new songs, plus 13 of his best hits, including Somebody's Baby; Doctor My Eyes; Running on Empty; The Pretender; Tender Is the Night , and more.

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