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Article: Randy Newman's songs explore dark side of life, love
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- April 10, 1989
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Though last year's brilliant "Land of Dreams" was hailed as
Randy Newman's first autobiographical album, his work long has been
more revelatory of its creator - of his irony and his outrage, his
intelligence and his pain - than is the material of most of the more
obviously confessional singer-songwriters.
Where others put a gloss on humanity and the best face on
themselves, wearing their musical revelations as merit badges of
personal sensitivity, Newman's most powerful material presents the
human condition at its darkest, most despairing and disillusioned.
The perspective from which he's writing most often isn't his own, but
the complex emotions that his music evokes obviously are ...