Jonathan Richman, You Must Ask the Heart - 32m 50s

Tracks & Durations

1. To Hide a Little Thought	3:17
2. The Heart of Saturday Night	1:57
3. Vampire Girl	3:37
4. Just Because I'm Irish	1:53
5. That's How I Feel	2:08
6. Let Her Go Into The Darkness	3:20
7. The Rose	1:36
8. You Must Ask The Heart	3:28
9. Nothing Can Change This Love	2:09
10. Amorcito Corazon	3:33
11. City vs. Country	2:34
12. Walter Johnson	2:53
13. Nishi	0:19

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Review

Jonathan Richman deserves his due as a great pop cultural hero simply for being the original postmodern songwriter--and doing it at least a decade before we knew what that meant. Unfortunately, his output has been paltry of late. But even if 1995's You Must Ask the Heart runs a mere thirty-two minutes (half of which are taken up by covers), as a follow-up to an album where he remade his own songs in Spanish it will do just fine. Call him what you will, a rock-devolved folkie, an overly precious child-man, an adenoidal enigma. But when he sets his mind to it, Richman can still write songs as whimsical or as plainly astute as any guitar-slinger around. Self-conscious perhaps, but never self-indulgent, his songs don't get mired in the vague soul purging that makes many singer-songwriters insufferable. But a glut of retreads from a guy whose chief asset is his inventiveness suggests a drying well. He Jonathanizes Sam Cooke and "The Rose" with his sincere nasal singing, acoustic strumming, and some light accompaniment, but offers fairly standard readings. Only the up-tempo shuffle of Tom Waits's "The Heart Of Saturday Night" truly refigures the original. --Roni Sarig

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