This year, Every Sunday Evening, Album Rock WXYG, The GOAT will be featuring a full album at 8:00 PM from the halcyon musical days of 1976. 1976 was one of the top Years in Album Rock history. Another year of tough choices every week. So many great ones to choose from. After 52 Weeks of featuring so many of the great albums that debuted in 1975, next Sunday we will be moving on to another amazing year of ALBUM ROCK EXCELLENCE, 1976.
We hope you’ll tune in at 8:00 PM, Next Sunday, June 28th for “The Pretender”, the album by Jackson Browne, released in 1976. It peaked at No. 5 on Billboard's album chart.
This is one of Jackson Browne's best albums, perhaps the best ! "The Pretender" must be seen as a more introspective narrative of his life at the time. His wife had committed suicide in front of this period, He had a child to take care of. The circumstances around the situation he was into and the way he could handle it, is shown through his music on this particular album. Emotional turmoil and confusion along with future considerations and doubt. Listen to the apocalyptic "The Fuse", the mourning "Here Come Those Tears Again" , the reflective "Sleep's Dark And Silent Gate" and the bleak future forecast," The Pretender".
This album is absolutely brilliant.
The Pretender is rated generally across the board in the industry as an all-time classic and is on the Rolling Stone list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
A cohesive and emotionally charged album nicely showcasing Browne’a talents as both writer and performer. The “title track”, “Sleeps Dark and Silent Gate” and “Here Come Those Tears” are all stunners made even more poignant by the back story of personal tragedy. And songs like “Linda Paloma” add a touch of variety and charm to keep things moving along without sinking too deep into the introspection that is his trademark. A great 70’s album in the Southern California tradition and for my money challenging for the title of the best JB album against Late For The Sky.
Tune In and Turn On Sunday evening, June 28th, and every Sunday evening at 8:00 PM for The GOAT'S "The Long Play with Al Neff”.
