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Streets of New York

Willie Nile

21 February 2006

Country, Folk Rock

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Tracklist 14 tracks, 1:04:21
  1. 1Welcome to My Head3:22
  2. 2Asking Annie Out3:11
  3. 3Game of Fools4:10
  4. 4Back Home6:24
  5. 5The Day I Saw Bo Diddley in Washington Square4:46
  6. 6Best Friends Money Can Buy3:17
  7. 7Faded Flower of Broadway5:12
  8. 8When One Stands4:46
  9. 9Whole World With You4:10
  10. 10On Some Rainy Day5:10
  11. 11Cell Phones Ringing (In the Pockets of the Dead)5:13
  12. 12Lonesome Dark-Eyed Beauty5:47
  13. 13Police on My Back3:33
  14. 14Streets of New York5:20

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6/10

A 57-year-old man employs every cliché he can conjure up in the most embarrassing, sophomoric poetry imaginable. This guy is Salieri to Dylan's and Cohen's Mozart: he recognizes the greatness but can only ape it, turning what was once astonishingly original into something grotesque. As for the Springsteen comparison, that's fair, since Springsteen sucks, too.

6/10

I can look through the Dylan comparisons, for I have plenty of albums that I'd consider being copies/being inspired heavily by older artists.

But this album is missing something. Might be the length of it, or the safeness of the tracks, but I didn't feel invested at any moment other than the track "Back Home". It's not bad, it just feels very much like the product of its time: melodic reminiscing to the days of youth. Something the 00s were full of.