Fountain Of Pleasure

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With The Long Way Around I was trying to write about what I feel is wrong with America without preaching, so you need a certain amount of stealth," Browne says. Billboard chart. Featuring the hit single ‘Boulevard’, and ‘Of Missing Persons’ written for Ianara George, daughter of the by-then-late So, who is Fountain of Sorrow, with its line "When you see through love's illusion there lies the danger, and your perfect lover just looks like a perfect fool," about? Is it Joni? If so, it belongs in the small but significant canon of break-up songs by famous people about other, unnamed famous people, including Carly Simon's You're So Vain (allegedly Warren Beatty).

In 1979, he founded Musicians United For Safe Energy, in 2008 he was named Environmentalist of the Year by the Surf Industry Manufacturers' Association for his attempts to make his tours green, and the day after our interview he's off to New York to join Ocean Elders, a group of silver-haired environmentalists including Ted Turner and Young, who have joined together to serve as a catalyst for the protection of the ocean and its wildlife. "The ocean is collapsing, the life we rely on is in danger, and there are no rules governing the high seas," Browne explains.

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on bass and Russell Kunkel on drums – all of whom had played on the album too – this majestic concert has not previously been In his 2008 book 1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die, Tom Moon wrote that Browne's lost seeker's "inquiry leads him into the minefields of memory" on "Fountain of Sorrow," in which "a photograph opens the floodgates". When you see through love's illusion, there lies the danger And your perfect lover just looks like a perfect fool So you go running off in search of a perfect stranger While the loneliness seems to spring from your life Like a fountain from a pool... Robert Christgau called the song the best on the album: "I admit that the longest is also the best, an intricate extended metaphor called 'Fountain of Sorrow.'" [8] Cash Box said that Browne "uses his unique country-influenced balladry to his fullest about the highs and lows of love." [9] In his 1974 Rolling Stone review of Late for the Sky, Stephen Holden wrote that the song "develops parallel themes of sex and nothingness, fantasy and realism, as Browne, looking at the photograph of a former lover, recalls:"

Selected items are only available for delivery via the Royal Mail 48® service and other items are available for delivery using this service for a charge. All this now changes as the entire show from November 13th 1980, over 40 years since the concert took place, is now available for theThe song is generally assumed to have been inspired by Browne's brief relationship with Joni Mitchell.

In the chorus, highly romanticized sexuality becomes a 'fountain of sorrow, fountain of light.' Later in the album the water images are developed into a larger metaphor for death and rebirth," wrote Holden. [7] Lowell George, the album was certified as a Gold and Platinum record in 1980 by the RIAA. It reached multi-platinum in 2001.

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by Taylor Swift "I knew his world moved too fast and burned too bright/But I Just thought, how can the devil be pulling you toward someone who looks so much like an angel when he smiles at you?" Swift sang on a song that is held to be about her former boyfriend, Harry Styles of One Direction. In classic Browne fashion, The Long Way Around is both autobiographical and topical. In one verse he's recalling being a young singer hustling his way through Tinseltown, and then in the next he's singing about how the American economy is based on the politics of envy. With that he's gone, off to make the world a better place in the way only a rich, handsome Californian can. transmitted across the country. Still ranked as one of the finest gigs of the entire 1980 tour, and featuring a superb band with the I don't want a whole album of songs about the ocean," Browne says. "We need music to communicate, but people can't feel they're being scolded and lectured. There's a certain skill in bringing up these subjects with the hope that people then become participants themselves, and it does happen. We're now seeing how industries once relegated to being folkie, hippie ways of producing energy are entering the mainstream."