Break Down of Law and Order
 

The Break Down's have finally spilled into the Lindsey board. Same thing as on the other boards.

AMAZING: Trouble, A Satisfied Mind, Johnny Stew (See Stew you'r amazing :laugh: )

REALLY Good: Bwana, I'll Tell You Now

Good: Shadow of the West, That's How We Do It in LA

OK: It Was I

MAKE IT STOP: Mary Lee Jones, Love From Here and there, September Song (worst FM related song EVER)

AMAZING: Mary Lee Jones,That's How We Do It in LA, A Satisfied Mind, Johnny Stew, Bwana

REALLY Good: Trouble, I'll Tell You Now, It Was I

Good: Shadow of the West, Love From Here and there.

OK: September Song

MAKE IT STOP: none

L&O...
 

Speaking of L&O, I've have gotten into Ryan (Not Bryan) Adams's music recently and a lot of his earlier work sounds a lot like L&O Lindsey. He's got that folk-Rock almost quirky Lindsey-esq style in many of his early works like "Heartbreaker".

One song you guys should d/l if you have LImewire or Kazaa is "To Be Sad Is To Be High." It sounds a lot like "Johnny Stew" and other L&O material. Pretty cool

AMAZING: I'll Tell You Now, Mary Lee Jones, Shadow of the West, Trouble, Bwana

REALLY Good: Johnny Stew, Satisfied Mind

GOOD: September Song, That's How We Do It in LA

OK: It Was I, Love From Here Love From There

Les, do you remember which review (Creem?) referred to the reviewer's being "stunned" by the "beauty" of It Was I?

Favorites: Bwana, A Satisfied Mind, Mary Lee Jones, Trouble, I'll Tell You Know, September Song

I love the others, too, but they come in 2nd to my favorites, above.

Dangit, I can't come up with clever categories. Grrr.

Well, anyway....

Brilliant: Trouble, Shadow Of The West, Mary Lee Jones, It Was I, Satisfied Mind, Love From Here Love From There (When I first head this song, I couldn't get over how naughty it was. Being that I was 15/16 at the time, it became my favorite song on the album. :laugh: )

Great: That's How We Do It In L.A., Johnny Stew, September Song, Bwana

Ok: I'll Tell You Now

Really good: Mary Lee Jones, Shadow of the West, It Was I

OK: A Satisfied Mind, I'll Tell You Now

Marginally decent: Trouble, September Song, Bwana

Grating: Johnny Stew, That's How We Do It In L.A.

Almost unendurable: Love From Here, Love From There

A lot of people seem to share that opinion! :shocked: :laugh: :laugh:

I listen to: Trouble

I don't listen to: Everything else




I don't like this album at all.... :sorry:

-Curt

Aw, sugar, you know I love you! :xoxo:

BTW, great sig! lol

The picture on the bottom of your posts you? Could you be any cuter? Are you a model?
AMber

Thanks Amber. That's me. Back in the day I was a model. I did commercials and all that stuff. ;)



-Curt

Amazing - Mary Lee Jones, September Song, Bwana, Johnny Stew, It Was I
Great - Trouble, That's How We Do it in LA, Shadow of the West
Okay - I'll Tell You Now, A Satisfied Mind
Meh - Love From Here, Love From There

-Kate

Not to stray off the subject too much, but does anyone have any theory about why the work is called "Law and Order"? Has Lindsey ever commented on this?

John

This was from an article I typed up a bit ago:


LIZ DERRINGER: Why did you choose "Law and Order" for an album title?

LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM: It's law and order in terms of establishing codes by which to live and having a certain amount of order in your life. That's all.

Wow, I can't believe how many people don't like "Love From Here, Love From There." It's my favorite on the album. And I've just recently decided that this is my favorite Lindsey Buckingham album!

Love em: I'll Tell You Now, Shadow of the West, Love From Here Love From There, A Satisfied Mind

Good: Trouble, It Was I (his voice sounds weird though), That's How We Do It in L.A.

Tolerable: Bwana, September Song

Skippers: Johnny Stew, Mary Lee Jones

Welcome to a very small club. Hayley always said you were cool!

Quite a bit actually:

Someone said, "well why did you call it Law and Order?" And I said, "well first of all, it has nothing to do with the contemporary context in which that term is used now. It has nothing to do with the society aspect." It's more specifically, I would think, the theme of how to retain innocence. How do you keep your innocence while experiencing pain, basically. Because, I mean, everyone is born with innocence but as you get older and experience pain, you tend to close off your feelings more; you tend to become more cynical; you tend to become more self-aware, less giving. And the album, in some ways, is asking the question, "how do you keep those innocent eyes through which beauty - real beauty - is seen?" And uh, I think it really comes down to choices. I mean, do you reject a situation or do you reject a person because you are confronted with pain, or do you accept pain as part of the whole? And learn to get through it to the other side.
Innerview with Jim Ladd, 1981

Law & Order is really just about personal codes and disciplines. You know, rock and roll has always represented a sort of escape for people, but it’s also a discipline, something you have to really try at. My life seems to have come down to committing to a small number of things that I try to do well, and that takes a certain amount of discipline - not clean living, necessarily - but a certain amount of order and law that may not be represented in what people imagine goes on in rock and roll. So it’s about commitment and what that requires. A lot of the songs are about commitments to relationships, and that’s another thread that runs through it.
BAM Magazine, November 1981

I do remember that. I remember it because I was sort of surprised by it. It's not a song that would immediately strike me as "beautiful" in the way that I normally think of that term being used. But, as they say, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

I enjoy the RS review of Law & Order a lot, even the part that says Lindsey is singing "****ed up" in the background during That's How We Do It In L.A.