Jonathan Richman – I, Jonathan
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$60.00
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Original price
$60.00
Original price
$60.00
$60.00
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$60.00
Current price
$60.00
Condition: Brand New
Ships from: Melbourne
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, Jonathan is the fourth solo album by Jonathan Richman, released by the Rounder Records label in 1992. As the founder of influential protopunk band The Modern Lovers, Richman had strived to convey authentic emotions and storytelling with his music. I, Jonathan continued this aesthetic with simple and sparse rock and roll arrangements, and straightforward lyrics about everyday topics, such as music, parties, summer, and dancing. It is widely-regarded as one of his best works, and is considered an influential album in the Lo-Fi genre.Songs on the album addressed topics such as backyard parties ("Parties in the U.S.A"), memories of neighborhoods in which Richman had lived ("Rooming House on Venice Beach" and "Twilight in Boston") and his admiration of his primary musical inspiration, the Velvet Underground ("Velvet Underground"). The latter song includes a brief interlude of the Velvet Underground song, "Sister Ray".The album helped increase Richman's cultural profile, which would include a 1993 appearance on Late Night with Conan O'Brien during which Richman performed one of the album's songs, "I Was Dancing in the Lesbian Bar."The album was recorded through the summer of 1991 "in John "Guitar" Girton's cozy frayed carpet of a basement studio" in the "summer swelter" of Grass Valley, California.
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Artist: Jonathan RichmanLabel: Craft Recordings, Rounder RecordsFormat: LPUnits: 1Genre: Pop & RockStyle: Garage Rock, Pop Rock
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A1 Parties In The U.S.A
A2 Tandem Jump
A3 You Can'T Talk To The Dude
A4 Velvet Underground
A5 I Was Dancing In The Lesbian Bar
B1 Rooming House On Venice Beach
B2 That Summer Feeling
B3 Grunion Run
B4 A Higher Power
B5 Twilight In Boston