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Title: poor sound quality, ragged performance
Review: unless you are a big, big jonathan richman fan you can skip this cd. the sound quality of the cd is poor. it's probably a cleaned up bootleg tape. that's what it sounds like. the performance itself is out of tune and ragged (as ernie brooks' cd booklet notes admit). it's beyond me how ANYONE could think this is richman's best album. so, unless you are a BIG, BIG fan i'd advise sticking to the MODERN LOVERS one great studio album (produced by john cale). that's without a doubt jonathan richman's best album. "JONATHAN SINGS!" from 1983 (with a very different modern lovers) is another great jonathan richman album (cd). if you don't have it, get that one instead of this. it's jonathan's second best.
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