West of Rome

West of Rome Artist: Vic Chesnutt
Label: Texas Hotel Records
Category: Music


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


UPC: 008530021212
EAN: 0000853002121
ASIN: B000001HQN


Release Date: 1994-02-09

West of Rome


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Tracks:

  1. Latent
  2. Blatant
  3. Bug
  4. Withering
  5. Sponge
  6. Where Were You
  7. Lucinda Williams
  8. Florida
  9. Stupid Preoccupations
  10. Panic Pure
  11. Miss Mary
  12. Steve Willoughby
  13. West Of Rome
  14. Big Huge Valley
  15. Soggy Tongues

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars He's a poet you want to listen to.......2003-12-04

I heard Vic Chesnutt's "About to Choke" at a listening station in Tower when it was released, and thought, "okay, here's one guy I don't need to bother with." Years later I found this album, "West of Rome" in a used bin, and thought "What the heck?" I am glad I did. This album became a real turning point in my listening, along with the Magnetic Fields' "69 Love Songs." Absolutely of the highest quality and more moving than one would imagine a rock album could be. If you like your music to go deep and be a really sad and really funny, this might do the trick for you. I listened to this album nonstop for weeks when I bought it, and learned later on how rare it was. That's what I call a lucky break for me. Worth hunting out, this one.

5 out of 5 stars Vic's `second squirt`, his `Ask The Dust`, his masterpiece.......2003-04-26

This is the early raw Chestnutt, when accompaniment was minimal, predominantly acoustic and when he was desperate to wrestle every lyrical jewel into every little space. The title reference to the great American writer John Fante, is a key to this, Chestnutt's `second squirt`, his `sophomore slough`, his `Ask The Dust`, his masterpiece. Like prime Fante, this free-wheels with fevered flights of imagery, suffused with playful and surreal comedy and `stupid preoccupations` with waylaid terms (`puny ingratiations`, `croaker sacks`, `tectonic panache`...) that Vic stretches, rolls and spits with unmistakable relish (`pee-yew-nee in-gray-shee-aa-shuns`), but is ultimately steeped in tragedy (`Florida` concerns the suicide of a friend). These are broad comparisons, Chestnutt, straddling the high-wires of lazy `alt country` classifications, is a unique, unrivalled figure in modern American music, as typified by champions as diverse as Mary Margeret O'Hara, R.E.M. (Stipe produced this record and offers some funked-up clavinet), Garbage and even Madonna. Like Fante Chesnutt is undervalued, and demands your immediate attention, and this is the record to begin the crusade.

5 out of 5 stars His best.......2001-08-17

Vic Chesnutt is the Cat Stevens of the indie rock set, but before you claw my eyes out, I mean it as a compliment: he is much darker, more twisted, more visionary than old Cat, but come on, admit it, there are some similarities of voice and tunefulness. Anyhow, forget the little shudder when you think of your old copy of Tea For the Tillerman, West of Rome just gets finer and finer with each listen. The song "Lucinda Williams" is worth the price of admission here alone ("sit down on a hurt as big as Robert Mitchum/and listen to Lucinda Williams") and Panic Pure --which has been covered brilliantly by Kirsten Hirsch --is a poetic gem. Where Were You is the quintissential dis tune --I could go on and on. In short, the finest singer-songwriter disc of the 90's, bar none.

5 out of 5 stars This is wonderful music, best of Vic's.......2000-06-05

I can't believe the guy here who says this is his worst album...this is definitely one of his best and displays a range of dynamic sensability and theme which i have found lacking in his recent records.

3 out of 5 stars

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  1. Aliens Ate My Buick ~ Thomas Dolby
  2. Here's to Another Year ~ Mystery Action , Boss Martians , and Evan Foster
  3. Under a Dying Sun
  4. Rave Up with the Knickerbockers ~ The Knickerbockers
  5. Déjà Voodoo ~ Gov't Mule
  6. Alternative Animals ~ Various Artists
  7. Excel ~ Klute
  8. Once Upon a Time ~ Victoria Acosta
  9. No Fear, Pt. 1 ~ Rasmus
  10. I'll Keep You Here ~ Merry November

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Big Swing Face ~ Buddy Rich

Mind Motions ~ Felipe Salles

Solar Winds ~ Gabriel Mark Hasselbach

Teddy Stauffer ~ Teddy Stauffer

Mundus Intellectualis ~ Scatterbrain

To De Boa ~ Axe Blond

Per Un Pugno Di Euri ~ Maphia Flaminio

Sueno de Amor ~ Manzanita

Arabica ~ Various Artists

Turbo ~ Ua