Thursday, May 15, 2025

Sail Away by Randy Newman

Wow, the tonal dissonance on this album is something else. I knew that Randy Newman had a thing for mawkish tearjerkers on film soundtracks, but I really wasn’t expecting the opening track on this to be about the slave trade. Yikes. We then crash zoom into a cabaret style song about a jaded and debauched star, followed by a supernatural number and then one about a dancing bear. Wait, what? We also get a cheery number about starting a nuclear war for the fun of it. 

https://album.link/gb/i/51963348



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