Songs from the Film

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Songs from the Film
Keenesongs.jpg
Studio album by
Released1986
Genre Power pop, rock
Label Geffen
Producer Geoff Emerick
Tommy Keene chronology
Strange Alliance
(1981)
Songs from the Film
(1986)
Based on Happy Times
(1989)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Pitchfork Media 6/10 [2]
Rolling Stone (positive) [3]

Songs from the Film is Tommy Keene's second full-length album and his major label debut. Originally released on LP and cassette in 1986 (Geffen Records, catalog #GHS 24090), it wasn't available on CD until 1998.

Contents

The album hit No. 148 on the Billboard 200. [4]

Reception

Spin said producer "Emerick met the challenge of turning this popster of modest but real merit into a star by deflavorizing his tunes with a big production jab. The low-key charms of his songs are lost in a sea of ringing guitars, and one more record with a zillion shimmering arpeggios is not high on my list of things the world is in desperate need of." [5]

Track listing

All songs written by Tommy Keene, except where noted

  1. "Places That Are Gone" – 2:53
  2. "In Our Lives" – 2:59
  3. "Listen to Me" – 3:52
  4. "Paper Words and Lies" – 2:23
  5. "Gold Town" – 2:57
  6. "Kill Your Sons" – 5:02 (Lou Reed)
    • Originally recorded by Lou Reed, 1974
  7. "Call on Me" – 3:04
  8. "As Life Goes By" – 2:23
  9. "My Mother Looked Like Marilyn Monroe" – 3:19
  10. "Underworld" – 5:00
  11. "Astronomy" – 1:28
  12. "The Story Ends" – 3:48

Bonus tracks on the 1998 CD version

  1. "Take Back Your Letters" – 4:24
    • Previously unreleased; Songs from the Film outtake
  2. "Run Now" – 4:42
    • Originally released on the Run Now EP (Geffen, 1986)
  3. "Away from It All" – 2:54
    • From Run Now
  4. "I Don't Feel Right at All" – 3:42
    • From Run Now
  5. "Back Again" – 4:03
    • From Run Now
  6. "They're in Their Own World" – 3:45
    • From Run Now
  7. "We're Two" – 3:20
    • Previously unreleased; recorded in 1984
  8. "Faith in Love" (full band version) – 3:15
    • Previously unreleased; recorded in 1984
  9. "Teenage Head" – 3:44 (Roy Loney, Cyril Jordan)
    • Originally recorded by Flamin' Groovies, 1971
    • Previously unreleased; recorded live-in-the-studio

note: On the CD, "Take Back Your Letters" appears between "Underworld" and "Astronomy"; the remainder of the bonus tracks follow "The Story Ends").

Personnel

The band

Production

Additional credits

Alternate versions

In 1998, Geffen released Songs from the Film on CD (catalog #GEFD-25225) with nine bonus tracks.

Sources

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References

  1. AllMusic review
  2. Pitchfork Media review Archived 2008-02-13 at the Wayback Machine
  3. Rolling Stone review [ dead link ]
  4. https://www.allmusic.com/album/r42154
  5. Peter Carbonara (May 1986). "Spins". Spin . No. 13. p. 32.