Sunday, May 13, 2018

Boulevard of Broken Dreams - It's the Talk of the Town and Other Sad Songs [Hannibal, 1989]: 8 (A-)


Great cover - and probably I may be underrating it by a notch, or even two. Update (November 2025): Eventually upped from 7.5 (high B+) and obtained. I just couldn't let it go, and the final straw was that a brilliant friend of mine who is deep into this era of music saw the tracklist and said it was an excellent selection of songs. Christgau gives this what I would call an 8.5 (high A-). And 1989 was such a great year for music, although I gather this was originally released in 1985.

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