Jesus Of Cool (CD)

• Category:  Music  »  Rock & Pop  »  Power Pop
• Format: CD   Learn more about the CD format using Tower WIKI.
• Release Date: February 19, 2008
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Yep Roc Records
• UPC: 634457262027
• WAPI (Tower ID): 111662342
• Average Customer Review:    (1 customer review)
• Tower.com Sales Rank: #5732 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
• #2556 in Rock & Pop (See Top 100 Rock & Pop Bestsellers)
• #3 in Power Pop (See Top 100 Power Pop Bestsellers)

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Rolling Stone (p.73) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Lowe still makes great records of pop gleam and wise irony, but this is his Book of Genesis."
Spin (p.97) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Lowe's 1978 debut remains his finest moment, a mix of acid music-biz snark with songcraft..."
Entertainment Weekly (p.60) - "JESUS if full of mini masterpieces....This underappreciated achievement deserves to be treated like the classic it is." -- Grade: A
Uncut (p.106) - 5 stars out of 5 -- "Musically, he traversed territories -- clanging rock, lush ballads, spooky reggae, neurotic pop and black comedy."
No Depression (p.63) - "Lowe served up originals that showed facility in various classic genres..."
Q (Magazine) (p.117) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "JESUS OF COOL was Lowe at his unashamedly poppiest....[T]he perfect example of how to exhume the undeservedly forgotten."
Mojo (Publisher) (p.120) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[H]eld together by Lowe's mischievous wit....A tour de force from a golden era of clever and imaginative pop."
Harp (magazine) (p.122) - "[S]tuffed to the gills with catchy garage rock, jangly pop and snarky disco..."
Paste (magazine) (p.82) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Exhilarating, cutting-edge, retro, playful, cynical and picaresque, JESUS OF COOL filters the hopped-up energy of 1977 London through Lowe's quirky genius..."

Contains 2 CD bonus tracks and a 16 page booklet.

Nick Lowe's first album threw down the gauntlet in grand form--a baker's dozen of "pure pop for now people" (which is, in fact, what a nervous Columbia Records retitled the album for its stateside release). Lowe was charting regularly in his English homeland, and though he didn't reach the same heights of chart success in America, several songs have become familiar late '70s/early '80s reference points, particularly "I Love The Sound Of Breaking Glass" and "So It Goes." At the time of this album's release Lowe was also the house producer for Stiff Records (Britain's first independent record company) and Elvis Costello, producing his first handful of albums, as well as touring regularly with Rockpile. This is an auspicious debut, made good upon thereafter by a continuingly engaging career.

Album Review

2008 marks the 30th anniversary of Nick Lowe's seminal 1978 album Jesus of Cool. The album, released in the U.S. as Pure Pop for Now People, marks the beginning of one of the most storied and influential solo careers in pop music and marks the true emergence of a songwriting monolith. The album is a literal compendium of 25 years of pop music history. Here, the sweet melodies of pre-Beatles pop, the energy of the British Invasion, the excess of glam and elements of ska and new wave don't blend but stand side by side on the field of battle, each one willing to lay down his life for the other. Jesus is the crossroads where pop music and pop culture collide, self-aware for the first time, fusing into a white hot chunk of rock n' roll energy.

Here, on this 30 th anniversary edition of the album, the original and U.S. versions of the album are combined to include all material ever available on either release. In addition, seven bonus cuts are included making this the definitive version of this undisputed pop masterpiece.

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