Even though the artist starts to vomit whenever we call it one, this is really a concept album in four parts.

Part one, "The War Against Romance", will challenge you to be as delighted as we all were with its sophistication. There's something for everybody here: Young rock lovers can go crazy over the guitar laced testimony of "Mom, Apple Pie, and Voyeurism" or the synth-driven "A Foe Pa". And old roll lovers can get taken for a (more comfortable) ride, too, with songs like "The White Wash" or "The Great Society". Is this really what I think it's about?

Section two begins with the quirky kind of catchy pop synth tune our artist likes to communicate his more important concerns with. The hard sax melody of the second track, "Last Tango in Press", hammers out what he considers the footnotes to the first, cited as a reference. And the third, the timely "Let Sleeping Crooks Lie" tops them both. Many people will wish this song had been around 30 years ago. And I know you'll be singing it today, once you hear it.

Part three delves deeper into the thick of things like: What American kids don't know about "Fear and Loathing" or "On the Road"? And, just like Jack Nicholson's character in "Five Easy Pieces", you'll swear this section has quite "Auspicious Beginnings". But that's not really what it's all about.

Section four has only one song. And a somber one at that. It's all up to you now.

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The expression of his ultimate dream. The title says it all.

Other than to describe the music a bit better, that is. This is a more accessible album than the first three, but then keep in mind that our artist decided with his first album that he'd already gotten too commercial.

There are sweet and sour love songs here, for instance. And silly ones, like "When Quentin Tarantino", with its sophisticated piano, and the synthesizer and marimba driven "Animal Advice". There's a three sequence (musical) course in Modern Physics, if you want to get taken to places only a rock guitar can take you.  After that is "What Now?" with its swinging saxophone melody, asking the musical question: Where is the present if you're traveling through time? And be forewarned, there are some religious songs here, too, as our artist pays tribute in acoustic folk guitar tradition with "He Is One" and "King of the Kings".

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Also known as The Third Man (with No Name), the title is supposed to be taken literally, like when you're homeless.

It starts with a song in a similar vein to the movie "In the Company of Men". Then it's a Mark-Twain-like rendition of The Battle Hymn of the Republic called "S.O.S. (Same Old Story)", and by the third song, the message is clear: "Sour Cream". In case you haven't gotten it by the sixth, "Dissident Outcast" makes it much more obvious, and to quite pleasant, mellow guitar licks. In between is a new take on the old childhood favorite, "Three Blind Rats", and a song that hints at some of the reasons for sexual discrimination. And that's just the first six songs. There's more. Like Crud, Inc. and Toasted Babies^TM.

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The first album from The Man with No Name. He didn't start making rock and roll until he was really old, so he already "did the time". He started making this album because he felt he should "do the crime", too. We hope you'll decide it was only a crime that it took so long. He was never in jail, though. Sorry.

As far as we can tell, the first track, "Americhosis", with its feel good rock guitar, changed the face of pharmaceutical advertising on television. The second, "King of the Crap", seems like it might have already done some good, too, even if it did take another five years for the U.S. to get the message of this pleasant pop synth melody. The third, "Criticize the States", is a sax oriented blues version of "Sixteen Tons". And the rest of them are just as musically varied and inquisitively clever.

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