Shame

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  Seven Songs for the Week #104 - 2nd Apr 25

  Jason Carty

  I have been reading the recent Randy Newman biography, A Few Words In Defence of Our Country. Like many biographies it does tip into a point where the successful years can take up less time to tell the story than the evolution years. Randy has only released four albums in the last 40 years - that's four albums of "Randy Newman Songs". He has done about 25+ soundtracks in that time. Including "You've Got A Friend In Me" - the book recounts that when Randy was scoring the first Toy Story, realising it was going to be huge, he took out his wallet and said to it "this movie is going to be very good to you".

  Bad Love is one of the "recent" Randy Newman albums (26 years ago!) and could it be his best? I love the sound of it, Mitchell Froom does an excellent job producing, and the decade prior of scoring films means that a song like Shame absolutely glows as a result of its arrangement. The backing singers, the horns, Pete Thomas' drumming, and Randy doing his thing.