Search - Jules Shear :: Allow Me

Jules Shear
Allow Me
Genres: Alternative Rock, Folk, Pop, Rock

Track Listings (11) - Disc #1
1. Hard Enough
2. The More That I'm Around You
3. Love With You
4. Nothing Is New
5. Hugging Her Guitar
6. The Judge And Margaret Brady
7. The Soul Of A Child
8. Deep
9. Just Another Railroad Train
10. May The Hard Road
11. Too Soon Gone

CD Details

All Artists: Jules Shear
Title: Allow Me
Members Wishing: 2
Total Copies: 0
Label: Zoe Records
Original Release Date: 4/25/2000
Release Date: 4/25/2000
Genres: Alternative Rock, Folk, Pop, Rock
Styles: New Wave & Post-Punk, Singer-Songwriters, Adult Alternative
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 601143101021

Synopsis

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Champions of long-time cult hero Jules Shear have been scratching their heads in wonder for decades, wondering when the rest of the world will embrace their beloved singer-songwriter. Shear maintains a knack for stringing pithy, perceptive couplets back to back to back, adorning most with insistent pop hooks. Allow Me's best moments--the evocative folk-rocker "Just Another Railroad Train" (with Suzzy Roche adding harmonies) and the wonderfully empathetic "Hugging Her Guitar" among them--are as engaging as such Shear staples as "If She Knew What She Wants" (popularized by the Bangles). But Shear shares much with Jackson Browne; both write lyrics that soar, but their voices are earthbound, a shortcoming that partially explains the former's modest success. Allow Me, like most of its predecessors, isn't likely to change things for Shear and his faithful legions, but it will buck up the troops while the battle continues. --Steven Stolder

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CD Reviews

Another cache of shining jules

05/28/2000

(4 out of 5 stars)

"I hate when I read a review of a Jules Shear's CD and the thrust of it is how great a songwriter he is and how many artists have recorded his work. Ok, that is true - but it tends to overlook Jules the performer. A tremendous guitar player and arranger, especially at vocal arrangement. Listen to his work with The Polar Bears (if you don't know The Polar Bears shame on you and triple shame on the evil record company who will not re-release their first two albums on CD) the layering of harmonies is brillaint, as it has been through his solo work. And as far as his voice - if you want crystal note oratory then buy the next mindless Mariah record, but if you believe that the best singing conveys emotion, then Jules is a great singer. A great singer like Bob Dylan, Tom Waits - a singer with his heart on his sleeve. "Allow Me" is another exquisite work from a great artist, full of hooks, fine playing, and smart lyrics. Buy it and buy his masterpiece "Healing Bones" too. And dammit somebody let the Polar Bears free!"

Can This Guy Get Some Support?? Please?

R. Schmidt | Chelsea, MI USA | 10/04/2003

(4 out of 5 stars)

"I have been a Jules junkie since, oh, 1978? My favorites are Great Puzzle, and Healing Bones. On Allow Me, the songs are a little more varied, offering, one would hope, something for everyone to enjoy, and nothing for anyone to dislike. Jules deserves a lot more fame and fortune (remember, he started the MTV Unplugged series), but who's gonna pay(ola) the Top 40 DJ's to slip The More That I'm Around You into the rotation.For a fun time, put that song on, and imagine the MTV video -- Jules as a chef, baking all sorts of wonderful pastries and goodies for the (gradually expanding) object of his affection.Sorry, Jules, I couldn't resist."

Jules Shear rocks again

Rob | Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Canada | 12/15/2000

(5 out of 5 stars)

""A Music Fan" in Virginia, must be my long lost twin brother. When will the record labels get the great Polar Bears on CD?! There is a mystery 3rd Polar Bears album that was recorded in 1980 and not released until 1996 on cd called "Bad For Business"... get it, if you can find it. I have been listening to "Allow Me" for 7 months and can't believe the radio play-list has ignored this mans music once again. With potential hits as the up-beat "Deep", "Love With You" and "Hard Enough" as well as the slower "Too soon Gone" the air waves are instead littered with mindless whining "Back Street Boys", "NSYNC" and "Brittany Spears". Jules is a brilliant writer, but it is his high energy voice along with those meaningful catchy tunes that make him the most under-rated musician in the biz. "Allow Me" returns Jules to the those great Polar Bear days with classic raspy guitar licks and his spirited vocals. He has done the upside down left handed accoustical and the duet albums with dignity and class, not reaching for big pay days but concerned about doing it right; Jules is rocking again. His best work since "Got No Breeding". Perhaps the world will hear the great songs off "Allow Me" when some pretty boy band records them, oh what they are missing."