Goldie's Last Day

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PFR

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Goldie's Last Day features PFR before they began to take themselves too seriously. The tracks all sound like typical PFR songs -tight vocal harmonies, clever chord arrangements, and nice work from long-time producer Jimmy Lee Sloas; the big difference between this album and later albums from PFR is the lightness of the lyrical matter. The title track is about a dog for goodness sakes!

The band often proved their ability to pen a generic radio hit (ie: The Love I Know from the album "Great Lengths" or Line of Love from "Them") and this album has what is probably the best of the band's three big hits in the song "That Kind of Love." Still the band is at their best when they lighten up and the best tracks on this album are Shine, Spinnin' Round, Wait For the Sun, and the title track.

Contrary to other reviews, I recommend this album over the other -still solid- PFR releases.

I had heard "Them" and "Disappear" and wanted to see what PfR was like in the beginning, so I got "Goldie's Last Day". I was disappointed. Now, don't get me wrong, the album has some good songs on it, but it doesn't match up at all to any more recent albums they've done. It has a very, very strong early 90's rock sound and is produced poorly so it sounds very cheezy at times. However, some of the genius songwriting comes through it all at times, such as "By Myself". I would suggest only buying this album if you're a diehard fan and really just need the album to be complete, or if the album is on sale for like 5 dollars or less (I got a tape of it for 3 dollars). If you want to start listening to PfR and are looking for a good "first album", try out "Them" and then "Disappear". "Them" is better when it comes to the music but "Disappear" is produced alot better (like a million times better), although both are alot better and more mature than "Goldie's Last Day".