Love In the Ruins

Love In the Ruins Artist: Bonnie Hayes
Label: Bondage Records
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 783707675824
EAN: 0783707675824
ASIN: B00008US5V


Release Date: 2003-03-10

Love In the Ruins


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Tracks:

  1. Beautiful Ideal
  2. I Can't Stop
  3. Greener Grass
  4. Keeping the Hum Going
  5. Still Wild
  6. Stealing Roses
  7. Everybody Wins
  8. Turn Down Love
  9. Vintage People
  10. Money Makes You Stupid

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  1. Empty Sky

Album Description

New work from master songwriter Bonnie Hayes. Touching, tragic, melancholy, humorous, ironic, literary, melodic and it ROCKS. A joyous marriage of lyric and melody in the service of the vagaries of modern life. This CD is relentlessly honest, jubilant and tragic. Includes the rocking opener "Beautiful Ideal", "Greener Grass" which may be the ultimate infidelity song, the hypnotic "Keeping the Hum Going" and the painfully comic "Money Makes You Stupid".

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars This music rocks!.......2003-10-27

Once you buy Love In the Ruins, it will quickly become the soundtrack of your life. Whatever you're feeling---ecstatically angry or mesmerizingly confused---this music will match your mood.

Bonnie Hayes' songwriting style is both intelligent and amusing. Her songs are bawdy, caustic, and celebratory and her vocal range is incredible. Ms. Hayes is able to hit those high notes in one moment, then sing in a low and sultry voice the next moment.

This CD is a party waiting to happen. You should buy it---people will suddenly like you and think you're cool!!

5 out of 5 stars A serious, logical, and objective review.......2003-09-08

Lessee...What sort of strange chimera might describe Bonnie's music?...certainly some Alfred E. Neuman, what she worry: there's always some fun to be found....some Rundgren-like love of harmony and some occasional acerbic wit like, uh, John Palumbo w/Crack the Sky (there's a rare reference for you music lovers)...maybe some Steve Miller (early) for the joy of rock and some Steve Morse, not for technique, but for the love of beautifully arranged music...lots of her own bad self, flat out musical charm, chops, intelligence...and um, maybe those kids on that Star Trek episode where just the kids survived and they went bump bump on Captain Kirk's head, and surely some Peter Pan....

You can tell this music makes me happy. I like to turn it up to 11 and sing along. Don't be too surprised......

Add this one to your collection. And like the other guy said: See her and her band of merrymakers live, it's like swimming with dolphins ...

4 out of 5 stars Bright guitar rock in the Sheryl Crow-Tom Petty vein.......2003-06-25

I've been a Bonnie Hayes fan since I first heard "Shelly's Boyfriend" on the radio in 1982, and her "Good Clean Fun" album is still one of my all-time favorites. Her musical style has changed a lot from her new wave days, but she's as sharp a songwriter as Aimee Mann. I bought this CD along with new albums by other old favorites Richard Thompson and Procol Harum, and I'm enjoying this album more than the other two.

This album rocks a lot more than 1996's "Empty Sky". Bonnie's been working on her guitar playing since then; her keyboards only make a few cameos here. The result is bright California pop-tinged guitar rock in the Sheryl Crow-Tom Petty vein. There are several songs about aging without necessarily becoming mature: "I Can't Stop", "Keeping the Hum Going", and "Still Wild" ("I'm still wild -- wilder still, now that I don't have a future to kill"). The latter two are my favorite songs here, along with sort-of love song "Stealing Roses". Hayes doesn't let herself off the hook any more easily ("I am reckless and I'm greedy/And I am hungry and I'm needy") than loser lovers ("Greener Grass") and ex-lovers ("Money Makes You Stupid"). In "Everybody Wins", Hayes stresses the importance of denial. Hayes' brother Kevin is the drummer on the album, and Bonnie co-produces with Steve Savage, who's been her producer for over 20 years now.

(1=poor 2=mediocre 3=pretty good 4=very good 5=phenomenal)

5 out of 5 stars Stunning - Bonnie Hayes is the real deal.......2003-06-02

I saw Ms Hayes last night at Sweetwater in Mill Valley. She played
for 2 1/2 hours straight and nearly caused the place to meltdown.

She did most of the songs on this album - i don't know if i have ever
seen a more outstanding songwriter / performer / band. This CD is just great.

The only thing better than this CD is to see Bonnie live.

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