674. Randy Newman - sail away

David Byrne's site has a jukebox if you will that plays a different playlist every month curated by Byrne himself. I used to listen to it a lot and one day I heard this great, lyrically rich narrative of a song called "God's Song (That's Why I Love Mankind)". When I found out it was Randy Newman I was shocked. It's almost like when you first found out your parents did something bad when they were young. Here's this songwriter that I only knew as film composer, mainly for kids movies, to my amazement was a very solid pop lyricist and arranger.

7.4 out of 10