Fountain Of Pleasure

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In classic Browne fashion, The Long Way Around is both autobiographical and topical. In one verse he's recalling being a young singer hustling his way through Tinseltown, and then in the next he's singing about how the American economy is based on the politics of envy. I don't want a whole album of songs about the ocean," Browne says. "We need music to communicate, but people can't feel they're being scolded and lectured. There's a certain skill in bringing up these subjects with the hope that people then become participants themselves, and it does happen. We're now seeing how industries once relegated to being folkie, hippie ways of producing energy are entering the mainstream."

The song is generally assumed to have been inspired by Browne's brief relationship with Joni Mitchell. Billboard chart. Featuring the hit single ‘Boulevard’, and ‘Of Missing Persons’ written for Ianara George, daughter of the by-then-lateSo, who is Fountain of Sorrow, with its line "When you see through love's illusion there lies the danger, and your perfect lover just looks like a perfect fool," about? Is it Joni? If so, it belongs in the small but significant canon of break-up songs by famous people about other, unnamed famous people, including Carly Simon's You're So Vain (allegedly Warren Beatty).

on bass and Russell Kunkel on drums – all of whom had played on the album too – this majestic concert has not previously been mighty David Lindley on guitars, Craig Doerge on piano, Little Feat’s Bill Payne on Hammond B3 organ and synthesizers, Bob Glaub The Hold Out Tour began in late June and featured more than 50 dates across the US and one in Canada, culminating at the Los Robert Christgau called the song the best on the album: "I admit that the longest is also the best, an intricate extended metaphor called 'Fountain of Sorrow.'" [8] Cash Box said that Browne "uses his unique country-influenced balladry to his fullest about the highs and lows of love." [9]

In his 1974 Rolling Stone review of Late for the Sky, Stephen Holden wrote that the song "develops parallel themes of sex and nothingness, fantasy and realism, as Browne, looking at the photograph of a former lover, recalls:" concerts, the group’s concert at the Festival Hall in Osaka. on the 13th of the month, was recorded for live FM broadcast and

In the chorus, highly romanticized sexuality becomes a 'fountain of sorrow, fountain of light.' Later in the album the water images are developed into a larger metaphor for death and rebirth," wrote Holden. [7] Selected items are only available for delivery via the Royal Mail 48® service and other items are available for delivery using this service for a charge. With that he's gone, off to make the world a better place in the way only a rich, handsome Californian can. It's about the fact that when you fall in love with someone, when you're brokenhearted, you don't see them as a person," Browne replies, by way of answer. When you see through love's illusion, there lies the danger And your perfect lover just looks like a perfect fool So you go running off in search of a perfect stranger While the loneliness seems to spring from your life Like a fountain from a pool...

In his 2008 book 1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die, Tom Moon wrote that Browne's lost seeker's "inquiry leads him into the minefields of memory" on "Fountain of Sorrow," in which "a photograph opens the floodgates". Lowell George, the album was certified as a Gold and Platinum record in 1980 by the RIAA. It reached multi-platinum in 2001.