Missing Boy [Import]

1. Freeze Moon

2. Seventeen's Map

3. Driving All Night

4. Bow!

5. Teenage Blue

6. I Love You

7. Fire

8. Scrambling Rock 'N' Roll

9. Graduation

10. Forget-Me-Not

11. Street Trees

12. My Song

Missing Boy,Yutaka Ozaki,Sony,World Music

Average customer rating: so far from the valley of the unconcerned One of my two favorite Prine recordings... Pure Magic There are some great songs here. Excellent As Always

The Missing Years John Prine Manufacturer: Oh Boy ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Country | Styles | Music General | Contemporary Folk | Folk | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Contemporary Folk | Folk | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music General | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music General | Folk | Indie Music | Stores | Music Singer Songwriters | Folk | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Fair & Square Lost Dogs and Mixed Blessings John Prine Bruised Orange Sweet Revenge ASIN: B0000005XY Release Date: 1991-09-24

Tracks:

1. Picture Show
2. All The Best
3. The Sins Of Memphisto
4. Everybody Wants To Feel Like You
5. It's A Big Old Goofy World
6. I Want To Be With You Always
7. Daddy's Little Pumpkin
8. Take A Look At My Heart
9. Great Rain
10. Way Back Then
11. Unlonely
12. You Got Gold
13. Everything Is Cool
14. Jesus The Missing Years

Amazon.com essential recording

John Prine was a battle-scarred veteran of the '70s "new Dylan" club and a superb craftsman whose modest commercial success found him without a major label deal in the '80s. Prine's solution was to move to Nashville and roll his own, setting up the tiny Oh Boy imprint and making records he wanted to hear, a survival game that paid off handsomely with this 1991 set, produced by Heartbreaker bassist Howie Epstein and boasting cameos from Phil Everly, Divinyls' Christina Amphlett, Tom Petty, old pal Bonnie Raitt, and another "new Dylan" alum, Bruce Springsteen. But it's Prine himself who holds your attention here, with his reliably fine songs mixing droll, dead-on narratives of recognizable Everymen, sweetly goofy parables, and unvarnished love songs that his craggy drawl inhabits with touching authority. --Sam Sutherland

Customer Reviews:

so far from the valley of the unconcerned.......2007-03-07

I am listening to John Prine's CD `The Missing Years' while waiting for my brown rice spinach pilaf to cook for lunch, Tuesday, March 6, 2007. The words of the songs are printed inside the CD case, but you won't get that from me. I have printed words and chords for entire John Prine albums from the internet, with three or four songs per page. There are plenty of words in a song like `It's A Big Old Goofy World,' but it has been years since I tried to memorize the words so I could sing a song the way it would be performed. Now I'm more impressed by words that jump out at me, like the lines in `The Sins of Memphisto':
Sally used to play with her hula hoops
Now she tells her problems to therapy groups
Grampa's on the front lawn staring at a rake
wondering if his marriage was a terrible mistake
I'm sitting on the front steps drinking Orange Crush
Wondering if it's possible for me to still blush
UH HUH OH YEAH.
I have plenty of favorite people playing on this CD: David Lindley, Howie Epstein, Benmont Tench, and Mike Campbell. Four of the names for the people singing background vocals are well known. `Jesus the Missing Years' is the song which shows the greatest imagination, but `Daddy's Little Pumpkin' has the most "fire burning, burning right behind your eyes" kind of sense. There is a great blues song on this CD, `Great Rain' written by John Prine and Mike Campbell, which is something I never expected from John Prine, which has enough greatness to easily picture:
I thought I heard you calling my name
I was standing by the river
talking to a young Mark Twain.

One of my two favorite Prine recordings..........2006-04-11

This is one of my favorite Prine releases, the other being Lost Dogs and Mixed Blessings. If you are a long time Prine fan, this is a very nice additon to your collection, if you are new to JP, it is a nice place to start. The best cuts in my opinion are:

Picture Show
Sins of Memphisto
Everybody Feels Like You
Unlonely
Take a Look at My Heart

The other cuts are ok, however I am not as taken with them as I am with the ones listed.

Sins of Memphisto has to be one of my favs, the lyrics are nonsensical and thats what makes the song what it is. Kind of like American Pie, you keep listening, trying to figure out something that can't be figured out.

You won't be dissapointed.

Pure Magic.......2005-12-01

Ever get in a rut where you don't know what to listen to? I can always find my way back to my music roots listening to this CD. Every song is magical and makes you feel like you're sitting there next to John while he tells stories. Don't miss this one. It is a must have.

There are some great songs here........2005-10-11

This is the only John Prine album I've ever really listened to, but it's a good testament to his abilities as a songwriter and musician, and a good advertisement to make a person want to hear his other work.
"The Sins of Memphisto" is a terrific, upbeat song about growing old and gaining regrets.
"Unlonely" and "You Got Gold" are happy, hopeful, beautiful love songs.
And "All the Best" is a slightly bitter well-wishing to an old flame, and may be the album's best track.
"I wish you love
And happiness.
I guess I wish
You all the best.
I wish you don't
Do like I do
And ever fall in love
With someone like you."
All of the songs tell stories (though some are cryptic), and almost all of them are good. Some I could take or leave. Overall though, this is a good collection of songs, and John Prine's voice and the songs and arrangements are all very worth listening to, and all worth getting to know.

Excellent As Always.......2005-08-22

Another excellent collection of John Prine! I mean really, come on, have you ever heard a bad John Prine album/cd?

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Missing Boy Yutaka Ozaki Manufacturer: Sony ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music International | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B00005G78N Release Date: 2001-08-13

Tracks:

1. Freeze Moon
2. Seventeen's Map
3. Driving All Night
4. Bow!
5. Teenage Blue
6. I Love You
7. Fire
8. Scrambling Rock 'N' Roll
9. Graduation
10. Forget-Me-Not
11. Street Trees
12. My Song

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Missing Boy Yutaka Ozaki Manufacturer: Sony ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music International | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B00005G78M

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