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I'm So Confused
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0093624708629
Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Warner Bros / Wea
Release Date: October 20, 1998
Studio: Warner Bros / Wea
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Editorial Review:
No doubt that playing the minstrel in There's Something About Mary gave Jonathan Richman the greatest exposure of his career. But don't expect success to spoil him: I'm So Confused--which includes that movie's "True Love Is Not Nice," if not the title song--finds the charming if offbeat pop-folkie singing the same simple-minded odes he's been doing since disbanding the Modern Lovers way back when. Produced with negligible effect by Ric Ocasek, Confused is mostly of a romantic nature, although with the occasional surprise. "The Lonely Little Thrift Store," for one, digs deep with arresting lines like "The avocado-green appliances with the smell of domestic violences." Perpetually quirky, Richman is nearly the definition of cult artist. No role in any blockbuster film's going to change that. --Neal Weiss
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - of course
Anything this man does is gold. Even the stuff that isn't quite as great as his other stuff. In other words, this thing is unconditional. It's like the love I have for my parents/family. I will always buy, listen to, and enjoy the heck out of anything this Jonathan Richman does. So sure, I'm biased, and this review is far from subjective, but if you haven't jumped on the Jojo band wagon yet, I'd say it's time for you to get started. I suggest "I, Jonathan" or maybe "Modern Lovers '88" for beginners. ... Read More
Rating: - The Divorce Album
Often people who try to interview Jonathan wil only mention how hard it is to get him to talk about his personal life. I find this highly unusual since there is no need for him to reveal anything, everything about Jonathan's personal life is on his records.This record is a testemant to that.
This finds him singing about a failed relationship (If she don't love me, I can't find my best friend) and then trying to console himself (True love is not nice). It also has some of Jonathan's more distubingly ... Read More
Rating: - Slick production can't disguise Jonathan's pain
Richman's second Vapor album, I'm So Confused (1998), starts out on a lighthearted note with the jaunty "Nineteen in Naples" and a re-recording of 1986's "When I Dance." But then it quickly turns heavy as Jonathan, picking up where Surrender to Jonathan (1996) left off, continues to to address the end of his marriage in songs like "I'm So Confused," "Love Me Like I Love," "Hello From Cupid," "If She Don't Love Me," "I Can Hear Her Fighting With Herself," "The Night is Still Young," and "I Can't Find My Best ... Read More
Rating: - Speak what we feel
Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. Jonathan grows older and has let go nothing of the true self that he first showed the world so long ago. For Gods sake, listeners, is sincerity so devalued these days, that a man with his own voice, armed with gorgeous lyrical and musical imagery to be mocked? Jonathan continues to sing of the spaces between the everyday patterns. He is out on a darkling plain, calling to those who would fight ignorance and shammery. And that is why he languishes in cultdom. America, ... Read More
Rating: - Most will be confused, but not me.
I've gotten used to being glanced at askance by my friends. This is usually the result of an off-handed comment about a movie or a record or a person, a comment which doesn't quite jibe with their own opinions. I was glanced at askance at the end of "Holy Smoke", a film I consider to be daring and interesting, but which my friends found uncomfortably challenging (they said "boring, weird, and dumb", but as this is MY review, I hold to my own interpretation of their reaction). I was glanced at askance ... Read More
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