Strange Weather (Glenn Frey album)

For the Marianne Faithfull album, see Strange Weather (Marianne Faithfull album).
Strange Weather
Studio album by Glenn Frey
Released June 23, 1992
Recorded 1991
Genre Rock, pop rock, soft rock
Length 65:13
Label MCA
Producer Glenn Frey, Elliot Scheiner, Don Was
Glenn Frey chronology

Soul Searchin'
(1988)		 Strange Weather
(1992)		 Glenn Frey Live
(1993)
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Strange Weather is the fourth studio solo album by Glenn Frey, the guitarist and co-lead vocalist for the Eagles. The album was released in 1992 on MCA. Though the album was considered an improvement from Frey's previous album by most critics, the album went largely unnoticed by the public. The album was a commercial disappointment, failing to chart in the US, and none of its three singles reached the Top 40, a first for Frey. However, Frey found some moderate success with the single "Part Of Me, Part Of You" off the Thelma and Louise soundtrack. The single peaked at #55 on the charts.

Critical reception

Reviewing for AllMusic, critic William Ruhlmann wrote of the album "With his solo career fading, Glenn Frey got serious on his fourth album, but many of the album's sentiments sounded strange coming from him."[1] In a review for The Rolling Stone Album Guide (1992), Mark Coleman gave the album three out of five stars and wrote that "Frey seemed determined to make a statement. "Love in the 21st Century" was a catchy but deposable rocker in the vein of his Beverley Hills Cop soundtrack hit "The Heat Is On", but both "I've Got Mine" and "He Took Advantage (Blues for Ronald Reagan)" found him stumbling around in the same rich-rock-star-as-self-righteous-angry-liberal footsteps as Henley."[2]

Track listing

All songs by Glenn Frey and Jack Tempchin, except where noted.

No. Title Length
1. "Silent Spring" [instrumental prelude]" (Glenn Frey, Jay Oliver) 0:40
2. "Long Hot Summer" (Frey, Jack Tempchin, Hawk Wolinski) 5:17
3. "Strange Weather" (Frey, Oliver, Tempchin) 5:03
4. "Agua Tranquillo" [instrumental]" (Frey) 0:50
5. "Love in the 21st Century" (Frey, Kortchmar, Tempchin) 6:12
6. "He Took Advantage (Blues for Ronald Reagan)"   4:42
7. "River of Dreams"   6:07
8. "I've Got Mine"   5:35
9. "Rising Sun" [instrumental]" (Frey, Oliver) 0:38
10. "Brave New World"   6:20
11. "Delicious"   3:47
12. "A Walk in the Dark" (Frey, Oliver) 5:18
13. "Before the Ship Goes Down"   4:31
14. "Big Life"   4:18
15. "Part of Me, Part of You"   5:57
16. "Ain't it Love"   4:04

Personnel

Additional musicians

Production

Charts

Singles

Year Song Billboard Hot 100 Mainstream Rock Tracks Adult Contemporary
1991 "Part Of Me, Part Of You" 55 9 7
1992 "I've Got Mine" 91 - 12
"River of Dreams" - - 27
1993 "Love in the 21st Century" 112 - -

References

  1. ↑ http://www.allmusic.com/album/strange-weather-mw0000073083
  2. ↑ Coleman, Mark (1992). "Glenn Frey". In DeCurtis, Anthony; Henke, James; George-Warren, Holly. The Rolling Stone Album Guide (3rd ed.). Random House. p. 265. ISBN 0679737294.