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List Price: $7.98 | | Label: Atlantic / Wea
Salesrank: 5147
Released: January 24, 1990 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Sweet Revenge Track Listing:
1. Sweet Revenge
2. Please Don't Bury Me
3. Christmas in Prison
4. Dear Abby
5. Blue Umbrella
6. Often Is a Word I Seldom Use
7. Onomatopoeia
8. Grandpa Was a Carpenter
9. Accident (Things Could Be Worse)
10. Mexican Home
11. Good Time
12. Nine Pound Hammer
Editorial Review:
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Media Type: CD
Artist: PRINE,JOHN
Title: SWEET REVENGE
Street Release Date: 02/06/1990
Domestic
Genre: ROCK/POP
Description of Sweet Revenge:
For his third album, John Prine returned to the fuller sound of his landmark debut while venturing into increasingly cryptic lyrical terrain. Songs such as "Mexican Home," "Accident (Things Could Be Worse)," and "Blue Umbrella" are open-to-interpretation explorations that reveal the songsmith's intrepid reflections; they're also among the 12-song set's best numbers. "Dear Abby" is a comical novelty number while "Christmas in Prison" is a doleful in-the-clink carol. The openhearted "A Good Time" slipped into the shadows after Sweet Revenge (like Prine's other Atlantic albums) failed to hit commercial paydirt, but it's as touching as anything Prine has penned. This outing isn't as musically distinctive as Prine's other albums from his early period, but as collections of songs go, it's first-rate. --Steven Stolder
Sweet Revenge Reviews:
John Prine 
2009-12-08 -
One great music selection..some songs make you laff,some hit home and a tear forms...
Long time favorite
2009-06-25 - John Prime has some very funny and endearing music on this classic CD. I had the album for years and was very happy to get it on CD.
The Master Lyricist
2008-08-05 - No one else creates lyrics like John Prine, and nowhere else is his lyrical prowess more on display than on this album. I mean come on: "Naked as the eyes of a clown"? Who else but John Prine could twist up a line like that? I think this his is finest collection of lyrical masters, unless you want to purchase the anthologyGreat Days: The John Prine Anthology.
Rehash, but classic stuff 
2008-05-19 - John Prine is an American Classic who should be praised as much as Dylan. This album is a good 'sampler' of some earlier and later stuff.
It's 'repackaging' at its best.
My advice, get the 2-CD "Greatest Hits" from Amazon!
If you only own one Prine CD......
2007-07-26 - When I think of John Prine's early work, one word always seems to come to mind: "wry"..... as in possessing a dry wit and ironic sense of humor. Sort of like, if Andy Rooney was young, with dark facial hair, and could sing and play and write music...oh forget it. The pose of relaxed defiance on the cover pretty much tells the story. I'm a rebel but I first have to get just a little more worked up about this so I can climb out of this car. "Dear Abby" may be the pinnacle of this wit; in John's songview, the solution is always the same whatever the malady of the forelorn advice seeker. "Sweet Revenge" is also full of tuneful material rich in "hooks." Heck, we even get a touching ballad; "Blue Umbrella." And we get an unforgettable Christmas song, a lively ode to ancestry in "Grandpa Was a Carpenter," more wryness in "Often is a Word I Seldom Use," and so on. John has mellowed much these days. If you want a good dose of his earlier more cantankerous days, this is as good a place to start as any. Many songs that will cling to your memory for quite a long time.
