Album Info

14 Songs

By Paul Westerberg

Rock - 1993

Paul Westerberg has always been a master of melancholy and sadness in rock ’n’ roll. His songs show the kind... more

Tracklist

1

Knockin On Mine

3:44 min
2

First Glimmer

4:57 min
3

World Class Fad

3:30 min
4

Runaway Wind

4:26 min
5

Dice Behind Your Shades

4:14 min
6

Even Here We Are

1:41 min
7

Silver Naked Ladies

4:37 min
8

A Few Minutes of Silence

3:18 min
9

Someone I Once Knew

3:10 min
10

Black Eyed Susan

3:36 min
11

Things

3:22 min
12

Something Is Me

2:19 min
13

Mannequin Shop

3:12 min
14

Down Love

2:15 min

About 14 Songs

Paul Westerberg has always been a master of melancholy and sadness in rock ’n’ roll. His songs show the kind of empathy that only great songwriters possess, and that empathy rules on this 1992 solo debut. The loss-of-innocence nostalgia of “First Glimmer” will have you aching for your own childhood, and the spare lullaby “Even Here We Are” (just an acoustic guitar and voice) has an unguarded yearning built on telling lines like “Just the song of a bird way up in the sky/But the most beautiful by far/Is the scream of the man who never learnt to fly.” “Runaway Wind” should’ve owned the airwaves; it’s a gentle roller with all the pathos of any great Springsteen tune about hitting the road and deliverance. The beautiful “Things” is as open and honest as any love song ever written. Westerberg rocks here too, with lots of self-depreciation and wit; “Silver Naked Ladies,” “World Class Fad," and “Dice Behind Your Eyes” all are stellar and would’ve worked as Replacements A-sides.