It's ironic that Richard & Linda Thompson enjoyed their breakthrough in the United States with the album that ended their career together, but Shoot Out The Lights found them rallying their strengths to the bitter end it's often been cited as Richard Thompson's greatest work, and it's difficult for anyone who has heard his body of work to argue the point.Hard Luck Stories also includes a 72-page hard cover book featuring two brand new essays plus rare and previously unseen photographs. Richard & Linda Thompson Shoot Out The Lights Vinyl Record Album 1982 Hannibal Folk Rock Vintage LP RogerRocketAZ (1,498) 15.00 Richard Brautigan - Novelist, Poet, Drunkard - a Commemorative Poster AtelierBagatelle (213) 18.99 VTG T-Shirt Fairport Convention 2004 BrotherShopVtg (168) 30. Individually, all eight of the album's songs are striking (especially the sonic fireworks of the title cut, the beautiful drift of "Just The Motion," and the bitter reminiscence of "Did She Jump Or Was She Pushed"), and as a whole they were far more than the sum of their parts, a meditation on love and loss in which beauty, passion, and heady joy can still be found in defeat. As Entertainment Weekly reported, chairman Richard. Update 4:45pm - HBO corporate is now reassuring staff that their email inboxes were not implicated in the attack. He has written a book on cosplay, designed a game about airplanes, and also runs. Joe Boyd's clean, uncluttered production was the ideal match for these songs and their Spartan arrangements, and Richard Thompson's wiry guitar work was remarkable, displaying a blazing technical skill that never interfered with his melodic sensibilities. Luke Plunkett is a Contributing Editor based in Canberra, Australia. But there is a palpable tension to Shoot Out The Lights which gives songs like "Don't Renege On Our Love" and "Did She Jump Or Was She Pushed" an edgy bite different from the Thompsons' other albums together there's a subtle, unmistakable undertow of anger and dread in this music that cuts straight down to the bone.
In truth, most of the album's songs had been written two years earlier (when the Thompsons were getting along fine) for an abandoned project produced by Gerry Rafferty, and tales of busted relationships and domestic discord were always prominent in their songbook.
Richard & Linda Thompson's marriage was crumbling as they were recording Shoot Out the Lights in 1982, and many critics have read the album as a chronicle of the couple's divorce.
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