leaves us awaiting Miss Jones's next step, and provides some enigmas while we wait." Daily Collegian, Penn State University, Oct. 15, 1984 - "The Magazine does insert a few more classic cuts and several mighty listenable selections into Jones' musical lexicon. You can't help wishing, though, that she had stuck to more earthbound topics and unforced rhythms that made her past efforts such pleasures." New Straits Times (Malaysia), Dec. 2, 1984 - "The music skips, almost nonchalantly, from sparse hymn-like melodies to lilting moods to fractured beats, conveying jazz shadings and evoking appropriate atmospherics." Time, Dec. 17, 1984 - "This is only her third full album, and she seems bent on proving, quite unnecessarily, what she has already established: she is the most enterprising woman writer making records today. The Magazine, a spiraling cycle of songs organized around themes of loneliness, defiance, memory and renewal, seems as if it was long and hard in coming." NME ranked it number 10 among the "Albums of the Year" for 1984. Track listing Credits adapted from the album's liner notes. Notes Rorschachs (Theme for the Pope) is instrumental on CD releases, vocal on some vinyl and cassette releases. Personnel Rickie Lee Jones – vocals, piano, synthesizer (GS-1 digital synthesizer on # 7) James Newton Howard – synthesizer Greg Phillinganes – Fender Rhodes (# 2) Michael Boddicker – additional programming (# 2), additional synthesizer (# 8) Neil Larsen – DX-7 synthesizer (# 3), organ (# 6), Wurlitzer electric piano (# 8) Nick DeCaro - accordion (# 9) Dean Parks – guitar (# 2, 5) Buzz Feiten – guitar (# 3, 6) Jeff Pevar – guitar (# 4), 12-string guitar, mandolin (# 9) Steve Lukather – guitar (# 8) Sal Bernardi – acoustic guitar, vocals (# 9) Nathan East – bass (# 2, 3, 6, 8) Steve Gadd – drums (# 2, 3, 6, 8) Lenny Castro – percussion (# 2, 3, 4, 6, 8) David Hungate – bass (# 4, 5) Jeff Porcaro – drums (# 4, 5) Victor Feldman – percussion (# 5) Strings for "Prelude to Gravity" arranged by James Newton Howard and Marty Paich and conducted by Paich Strings for "Magazine" arranged and conducted by James Newton Howard Horn arrangement for "Juke Box Fury" by Rickie Lee Jones and Jerry Hey, for "The Real End" by Jerry Hey Technical Mark Linett – engineer Rickie Lee Jones – art direction Ethan Russell