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| Love, Pain & The Whole Crazy Thing | 
 enlarge | Artist: Keith Urban
Label: Liberty
Category: Music
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Avg. Customer Rating:  142 reviews
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Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
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Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 094637708705
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ASIN: B000ICM5QW
Release Date: November 7, 2006
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| Tracks:
| • | Once In A Lifetime | | • | Shine | | • | I Told You So | | • | I Can't Stop Loving You | | • | Won't Let You Down | | • | Faster Car | | • | Stupid Boy | | • | Used To The Pain | | • | Raise The Barn (featuring Ronnie Dunn) | | • | God Made Woman | | • | Tu Compania | | • | Everybody | | • | Got It Right This Time |
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Artist: URBAN,KEITH
Title: LOVE PAIN & THE WHOLE CRAZY THING
Street Release Date: 11/07/2006
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Genre: COUNTRY
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It's tempting to read these songs--many about hope in the face of potential heartbreak--as an adjunct to Keith Urban's own tabloid-fodder life, which lately reads "ex-junkie country star marries Nicole Kidman, enters rehab." But his three previous albums have similar dark undertones. That would also be an underestimation of Urban's creative powers, which are broad enough to balance assembly-line Nashville pop with emotionally fine-tuned artistry. Breezy rockers like "Faster Car," sweet hooky ballads like "Shine," and readymade big-chorus hits like "Once in a Lifetime" rub elbows with more complex numbers like "I Can't Stop Loving You"--an essay about sad courage that starts with an acoustic guitar and adds instrumental textures as it unfolds--and "Stupid Boy," a tale of loss and self-discovery. It's no coincidence that both those songs climax with Urban's own crying guitar solos. As a player, his bold, midrange-heavy tone complements his most nuanced vocal performances. Another highlight is "Raise the Barn," which Urban co-wrote and sings with Ronnie Dunn. The cheerful tune, inspired by the survivors of Hurricane Katrina, is a tribute to the durability of the human spirit--a subject Urban seems to know more than a little about. --Ted Drozdowski More Keith Urban
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 Perhaps Urban's best work to date November 8, 2006
33 out of 37 found this review helpful
It's sometimes hard to take Keith Urban seriously as an artist. After all, songs such as "Once in a Lifetime" were written specifically to be radio hits. It's unfortunate that only his lesser material (for the most part) gets radio airplay, because looking at his albums overall, one gets the sense that Urban truly knows how to craft a fine piece of music.
LOVE, PAIN, & THE WHOLE CRAZY THING is a great record, and let me tell you why. Sure, it has its ready-for-radio tunes, but we'll look beyond that. What we're looking at, specifically, is Urban's musicianship: what other chart-toppers today can boast that they play guitar, bass, ganjo, piano, and various other odds-n-ends on their records? Not many. What other artist today can write an instant chart-topper, alongside tunes that require a bit more thought-processing? Not many. What other artist today can amass such a following, and yet still feel compelled to prove himself time and time again? Urban could sit back on his heels and enjoy the success he's gained...yet, as the non-standard production of "Got It Right This Time" shows, he's still experimenting with what he can do. Listen to the bass line of "Faster Car" (played by Urban), and not feel that Urban has something else to say. Listen to the drum/guitar solo of "I Told You So" and not feel like you're in the midst of a revolutionary rock record.
So maybe Keith Urban isn't "revolutionary." But he's definitely pushing the bar. He is a super-talented singer/songwriter, who hasn't let his success limit him. LOVE, PAIN & AND THE WHOLE CRAZY THING is a great pop/country/rock record, with more emphasis upon the latter two. The songs are by and large standouts, and the musicianship is stellar. Urban has another winner on his hands here; don't miss this one.
Beautiful songwriting, super instrumental talent November 12, 2006
23 out of 27 found this review helpful
This singer has a beautiful, passionate voice with quiet strength in it. It moves you, especially since most of his songs really resonate from the heart, or at least seem to. These are the songs people live and love to hear and listen to. I love the unique quality of Urban's voice which always seems haunted and mysterious whether he's happy or sad while he's singing. There's a lot of emotion there, and the tortured soul of an artist making money doing what he loves.
Love, Pain, and the great tapestry of life and music November 7, 2006
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
This highly anticipated release by country music's innovator, Keith Urban takes this artist's previous country rock blend and pushes the envelope of the genre even further. This album is the next step blending country, rock and Beatlesque pop in one gorgeous aural tapestry of music that proves country singers can have not only heart but soul. At first listen to the first single, Once in a Lifetime, this CD would seem to reflect the joy of love but underneath there is also the current of pain and regret that proves that nothing in life is perfect and that love can both lift you up and break your heart.
Highlights are Shine, the amazingly fun and funky Faster Car, the aching regret of Stupid Boy,the gorgeous Won't Let You Down and the joyous hoedown of Raise the Barn which is a valentine to the American south in need from an Australian boy who has made Nashville his home. There is not a disappointing track on here. Even God Made Woman with its Stones Can't Always Get What You Want like choral opening is a bit of over the top fun.
This CD is one that should appeal to music lovers and is sure to open up a new audience for Keith's music while keeping him in the forefront of country music as a true innovator and artist.
Rice In Our Hair November 14, 2006
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
This is my 2nd set by Keith after the blockbuster 4-million seller "Be Here." My favorite track after my first few listenings is "God Made Woman." It's a stunning anthem with Chris McHugh's drums slamming the beat against thunderous guitars in what sounds like it out to be a slow song. It's kind of the country version of "Hey Jude" in that regard. I like the melodic "Everybody" & the upbeat "Got It Right This Time." The single "Once in a Lifetime" is a certain crowd pleaser wedding song, "I close my eyes & I see you standin' right there, sayin' 'I do' & they're throwin' rice in our hair." "Faster Car" is so infectious that it's hard not to just leave it perpetually on repeat, "I got a you-shaped hole inside I swear it gets deeper by the day, flickin' cigarettes out the window goin' nowhere in this lonely rain." "Love, Pain & the Whole Crazy Thing" is an excellent set. It's musically inventive like the use of tin whistle & uillean pipes on "I Told You So." Urban's vocals are passionate and committed and the band is completely crackerjack. Bravo!
 An Urban Nightmare? November 16, 2006
8 out of 17 found this review helpful
Last night I listened to the whole CD on Clear Channel. (Everyone should deliberately hold off on buying a disc until they hear every song or at least a sample of every song. It will definitely save you time and money.) I was sorely disappointed. There were only three songs on that disc that really resonated with me. Once In A Lifetime, I Told You So, and Got It Right This Time. God Made Woman was God awful. Richard Marx had attested that Everybody rose above Better Life in quality, but I think it was lackluster in relation to Better Life. Sorry Richard Marx fans, but this song was more Marx than Urban. Not in a good way either. The rest of the songs were drowned in heavy production, bland melodies, needless bridges, and repetitive lyrics. I really expected more from Keith. I was hoping for more guitar, rather than keyboard and piano. I was also expecting it to sound like country, instead of saccharine laden pop. I'm going to stick with iTunes for the tracks I do like and leave the rest by the wayside. I'm not paying for the whole disc. I wouldn't want anyone to have to pay full price for this record.
Music is an experimental business, much like movie making or any other type of media art. It's a gamble really. Sometimes you can release the best disc of your career. An album that has one hit after another, with unlimited radio and television airplay. Then sometimes you can release a dud. I'm sure in Keith Urban's case, that dud will still earn him a multi-platinum CD, along with all the acoutrements of a "quality" record. He has a hardcore mob of fans that will love anything that Urban produces, much like Richard Marx. Of course, these days, Urban beats Marx in sales of his own discs, but both artists stay in the same realm of revenue as far as being accomplished songwriters. You can't dispute the fact that both musicians are very talented in that area. I have to watch my words though, or some of the fans may want to verbally break my legs when I mention anything less than a perfect review of either Marx or Urban. LOL! (Sometimes there is no way to verbalize something so ridiculously funny. So chatspeak has to suffice.)
Does this mean there is no accounting for taste? Maybe. After I wrote this review, I read similar reviews in the Boston Globe, and the Daily News. You have to look at reviews objectively, but I think that I'm not the only one who sees the flaws. Yet there is a contrast to those poor reviews. Billboard, one of the most influential music publications in the world, gave it a rave review. They said that, "it was fitting that (Keith Urban) ended the record with Got It Right This Time." Now don't get all upset. I still love the majority of Mr. Urban's catalogue. (Marx's too!) Putting aside the fact that I am a big fan of his work, I just think that Keith Urban's record went too far away from country. Hopefully any good and bad reviews that he receives from this effort will help in the creation of his next disc.
(You may wonder why I included Richard Marx in relation to this subject, aside from the obvious connection. From what I have observed, most of the fans that like Marx are diehard Urban fans. Just like Rodney Crowell fans will tend to listen to Keith Urban, or the same would hold true for Dann Huff. You connect the relative to prove your point.)
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