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Jonathan Richman - I'm So Confused (1998)

Track listing:
  1. When I Dance 2:51
  2. Nineteen In Naples 2:59
  3. I'm So Confused 3:27
  4. True Love Is Not Nice 3:10
  5. Love Me Like I Love 3:34
  6. Hello From Cupid 3:07
  7. If She Don't Love Me 2:30
  8. The Lonely Little Thrift Store 2:52
  9. Affection 4:14
  10. I Can Hear Her Fighting With Herself 3:17
  11. The Night Is Still Young 2:13
  12. I Can't Find My Best Friend 2:55

Notes

Ric Ocasek steps in to produce a lush-sounding record for Richman, employing quirky keyboards, percussive effects and background vocalists. "Nineteen In Naples" is one of his typical, naive travelogues: "When I was 19, I went across the pond and I found myself in the demimonde." But his charming nasal voice seems to all but have disappeared; it's been replaced with a sort of arty croon, as on the title cut and the dour "Affection." Yet, it suits the song treatments, which sound similar to mid-period Talking Heads (!). Still, on "The Night Is Still Young," the "old" Jonathan makes an appearance with one of his trademark shuffles.