Введение
Shoot Out the Lights – шестой и последний альбом британского рок-дуэта Ричарда и Линды Томпсон. Он был спродюсирован Джо Бойдом и выпущен в 1982 году на его лейбле Hannibal. Это произведение, получившее высокую оценку критиков.
Shoot Out the Lights is the sixth and final album by British husband and wife rock duo Richard and Linda Thompson. It was produced by Joe Boyd and released in 1982 on his Hannibal label. A critically acclaimed work,
Later that same year and with the Thompsons still without a contract, Rafferty stepped in and offered to finance and produce a new Richard and Linda Thompson album and then use his contacts in the industry and the finished album to secure a new contract with the Thompsons. This album was recorded during September and October 1980 at Chipping Norton Recording Studios in Oxfordshire. As the project proceeded there was increasing tension between Richard Thompson and Rafferty. Thompson preferred a spontaneous approach to recording and found Rafferty's time consuming and perfectionist approach hard to cope with. He also felt increasingly frozen out of the project: "When he got to the mixing, I just didn’t bother to turn up . because if I said something it was totally ignored and I thought 'hey, whose record is this anyway?'" Finally, in the summer of 1981 Joe Boyd signed the Thompsons to his small Hannibal label and, in November of that year, the Thompsons went into Olympic Studios in London and recorded a new album. Boyd's proposal, which the Thompsons accepted, was that the album be recorded in a matter of days so that money could be put aside for a tour of the US. | rev2 = Robert Christgau
| rev2score =
| rev4 = (The New) Rolling Stone Album Guide
| rev4Score = 5/5
| rev3 = The Encyclopedia of Popular Music
| rev3Score = 5/5
|rev5 = Spin Alternative Record Guide
|rev5score = 10/10
For a release on an independent label, Shoot Out the Lights had a significant critical impact. Robert Christgau made it a pick hit saying "these are powerfully double edged metaphors for the marriage struggle". It has continued to be highly regarded. AllMusic praises it as "a meditation on love and loss in which beauty, passion, and heady joy can still be found in defeat". and in 1989 it was ranked #9 on the same magazine's list of The 100 Best Albums of the Eighties. The album was ranked number 332 on its list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. It was voted number 422 in the third edition of Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums (2000). In March 2005, Q placed the title song at number 99 in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks.
Позже в том же году, когда у Томпсонов все еще не было контракта, Рафферти предложил финансировать и спродюсировать новый альбом Ричарда и Линды Томпсон, а затем использовать свои связи в индустрии и готовый альбом для заключения нового контракта с ними. Альбом был записан в сентябре и октябре 1980 года в студии Chipping Norton Recording Studios в Оксфордшире. В процессе работы над проектом между Ричардом Томпсоном и Рафферти нарастало напряжение. Томпсон предпочитал спонтанный подход к записи и считал подход Рафферти, требовавший много времени и отличавшийся перфекционизмом, трудным для восприятия. Он также чувствовал себя все более отстраненным от проекта: «Когда он дошел до сведения, я просто не стал приходить, потому что если я что-то говорил, это полностью игнорировалось, и я подумал: "Эй, чья это вообще запись?"». Наконец, летом 1981 года Джо Бойд подписал контракт с Томпсонами на свой небольшой лейбл Hannibal, а в ноябре того же года Томпсоны отправились в студию Olympic Studios в Лондоне и записали новый альбом. Предложение Бойда, которое Томпсоны приняли, заключалось в том, чтобы альбом был записан за несколько дней, чтобы можно было отложить деньги на тур по США.
Shoot Out the Lights is the sixth and final album by British husband and wife rock duo Richard and Linda Thompson. It was produced by Joe Boyd and released in 1982 on his Hannibal label. A critically acclaimed work,
Later that same year and with the Thompsons still without a contract, Rafferty stepped in and offered to finance and produce a new Richard and Linda Thompson album and then use his contacts in the industry and the finished album to secure a new contract with the Thompsons. This album was recorded during September and October 1980 at Chipping Norton Recording Studios in Oxfordshire. As the project proceeded there was increasing tension between Richard Thompson and Rafferty. Thompson preferred a spontaneous approach to recording and found Rafferty's time consuming and perfectionist approach hard to cope with. He also felt increasingly frozen out of the project: "When he got to the mixing, I just didn’t bother to turn up . because if I said something it was totally ignored and I thought 'hey, whose record is this anyway?'" Finally, in the summer of 1981 Joe Boyd signed the Thompsons to his small Hannibal label and, in November of that year, the Thompsons went into Olympic Studios in London and recorded a new album. Boyd's proposal, which the Thompsons accepted, was that the album be recorded in a matter of days so that money could be put aside for a tour of the US. | rev2 = Robert Christgau
| rev2score =
| rev4 = (The New) Rolling Stone Album Guide
| rev4Score = 5/5
| rev3 = The Encyclopedia of Popular Music
| rev3Score = 5/5
|rev5 = Spin Alternative Record Guide
|rev5score = 10/10
For a release on an independent label, Shoot Out the Lights had a significant critical impact. Robert Christgau made it a pick hit saying "these are powerfully double edged metaphors for the marriage struggle". It has continued to be highly regarded. AllMusic praises it as "a meditation on love and loss in which beauty, passion, and heady joy can still be found in defeat". and in 1989 it was ranked #9 on the same magazine's list of The 100 Best Albums of the Eighties. The album was ranked number 332 on its list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. It was voted number 422 in the third edition of Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums (2000). In March 2005, Q placed the title song at number 99 in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks.
Для выпуска на независимом лейбле Shoot Out the Lights оказал значительное влияние на критиков. Роберт Кристагау назвал его хитом, сказав, что «это мощные, двусмысленные метафоры, отражающие борьбу в браке». Альбом продолжает пользоваться большим уважением. AllMusic описывает его как «размышление о любви и потере, в котором красота, страсть и опьяняющая радость все еще можно найти в поражении». В 1989 году он занял 9-е место в списке 100 лучших альбомов 80-х годов, опубликованном этим же журналом. Альбом занял 332-е место в списке 500 величайших альбомов всех времен. Он был признан альбомом номер 422 в третьем издании списка 1000 лучших альбомов всех времен Колина Ларкина (2000). В марте 2005 года журнал Q поместил заглавную песню на 99-е место в своем списке 100 величайших гитарных треков.
Shoot Out the Lights is the sixth and final album by British husband and wife rock duo Richard and Linda Thompson. It was produced by Joe Boyd and released in 1982 on his Hannibal label. A critically acclaimed work,
Later that same year and with the Thompsons still without a contract, Rafferty stepped in and offered to finance and produce a new Richard and Linda Thompson album and then use his contacts in the industry and the finished album to secure a new contract with the Thompsons. This album was recorded during September and October 1980 at Chipping Norton Recording Studios in Oxfordshire. As the project proceeded there was increasing tension between Richard Thompson and Rafferty. Thompson preferred a spontaneous approach to recording and found Rafferty's time consuming and perfectionist approach hard to cope with. He also felt increasingly frozen out of the project: "When he got to the mixing, I just didn’t bother to turn up . because if I said something it was totally ignored and I thought 'hey, whose record is this anyway?'" Finally, in the summer of 1981 Joe Boyd signed the Thompsons to his small Hannibal label and, in November of that year, the Thompsons went into Olympic Studios in London and recorded a new album. Boyd's proposal, which the Thompsons accepted, was that the album be recorded in a matter of days so that money could be put aside for a tour of the US. | rev2 = Robert Christgau
| rev2score =
| rev4 = (The New) Rolling Stone Album Guide
| rev4Score = 5/5
| rev3 = The Encyclopedia of Popular Music
| rev3Score = 5/5
|rev5 = Spin Alternative Record Guide
|rev5score = 10/10
For a release on an independent label, Shoot Out the Lights had a significant critical impact. Robert Christgau made it a pick hit saying "these are powerfully double edged metaphors for the marriage struggle". It has continued to be highly regarded. AllMusic praises it as "a meditation on love and loss in which beauty, passion, and heady joy can still be found in defeat". and in 1989 it was ranked #9 on the same magazine's list of The 100 Best Albums of the Eighties. The album was ranked number 332 on its list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. It was voted number 422 in the third edition of Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums (2000). In March 2005, Q placed the title song at number 99 in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks.
История релизов
В 1990 году Hannibal выпустил Shoot Out the Lights на CD, включив в первый тираж в качестве бонус-трека B-сайд "Living in Luxury". Эта песня не вошла в последующие издания альбома. В 1993 году Rykodisc выпустил её в составе своей серии AU20 Mastering Gold CD, где доктор Тоби Маунтин из Northeastern Digital Recording, Inc., расположенной в Саутборо, штат Массачусетс, использовал запатентованный процесс мастеринга Super Bit Mapping (SBM) от Sony для понижения разрядности цифрового мастера с 20 до 16 бит, необходимой для стандарта Red Book для компакт-дисков. В 2004 году Маунтин вновь провел мастеринг альбома для выпуска на Super Audio CD (SACD) на Rykodisc. В 2005 году альбом был переиздан на 180-граммовой виниловой пластинке лейблом 4 Men With Beards. В октябре 2010 года Rhino Handmade выпустили делюкс-издание альбома на 2CD с 11 бонусными треками, записанными на концертах, и 40-страничным буклетом.
Список треков
Все песни написаны Ричардом Томпсоном, если не указано иное.