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Shoot Out the Lights
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0031257130325
Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
Label: Hannibal
Manufacturer: Hannibal
MPN: 571303
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Hannibal
Release Date: July 01, 1991
Studio: Hannibal
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Editorial Review:
Real life intruded on Richard and Linda Thompson and turned Shoot Out the Lights into a harrowing masterpiece. The collection was difficult to create. Tracks from an aborted first attempt to record the album ended up on the Richard Thompson anthology Watching the Dark and the history of Linda Thompson Dreams Fly Away. It also became their final record together, lending extra poignance to such classically grim Richard Thompson titles as "Did She Jump or Was She Pushed" and "Wall of Death." The combination of Richard's inventive guitar work; his ragged vocals; and Linda's fragile, beautiful singing, all suffocatingly emotional, backed for the most part by longtime Thompson associates from Fairport Convention, make Shoot Out the Lights essential. --David Wolf
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Dark but Strong Farewell!
"Shoot Out the Lights" was Richard and Linda Thompson's 1982. comeback album after two slightly disappointing albums released on the Chrysalis label in 1978 and 1979. Unfortunately this was also to be their last, as both their marriage and their artistic partnership was falling apart at this point. Quite a paradox as the album is as strong as their finest albums recorded for Island in the mid 1970's.
Musically more rocking and less folkish than their Island albums; lyrically at least ... Read More
Rating: - A sombre masterpiece
The final album that Richard and Linda Thompson recorded as a duo is one of their best and certainly a classic English rock album. There had always been long shadows in their music but this album all seems to take place after nightfall. Even the prettiest ballads turn out to be meditations on loss and grief if you give them more than a cursory glance.
The couple split after the release of this album and comparisons could perhaps be made with "Rumours" by Fletwood Mac, as songs like "Don't ... Read More
Rating: - Just The Best
This is not a soft cushion but anyone who has been disappointed in love will recognise themselves in this album. The last collaboration between two great musicians each of whom has gone on to produce much more great music. They also produced Teddy Thompson who has himself produced 2 excellent albums. also check out the first solo albums by RT (Daring Adventures) & LT (One Clear Moment) where they further vent their spleens.
Buy it and then buy everything else. You won't love everything but ... Read More
Rating:  - Was this really Richard and Linda's best?
This was the last of the RT and LT partnership albums and their most popular and accessible. There's less of a folk influence here and more pop. It does seem to me that RT was striving for commercial success with some of these tracks, something he had always refused to pander to with any of his past work. The 2 most commercial tracks are the galloping opener 'Don't renege on our love', which bore all the hallmarks of a hit single. 'Wall of death' likewise could have also been a single, if a little less ... Read More
Rating: - Great folk rock album
Just don't trust the first listening. Maybe, as it happened to me, you will think it's the "usual" folk-rock cd. Let it play for a second time, it's enough: you'll enjoy the rare match between subtle spleen and energy of its tracks. A great album, a milestone.
My favorite song? Difficult choice, but, well, I say "Just The Motion".
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