The big problem with Jarvis is that it doesn't include the songs he wrote for the soundtrack of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and sang in the movie with the Hogwarts prom band, the Weird Sisters (including Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood). "Do the Hippogriff" and "Magic Works" would have been standouts. Oh, well -- you'd be hard-pressed to find any song here that loses steam after forty or fifty listens. With old Pulp friends pitching in, Cocker goes for big, swooping ballads in the style of "Quantum Theory," "Black Magic" and "Baby's Coming Back to Me." He croons about loneliness with all his usual compassionate warmth, whether it's the teen-girl angst of "Big Julie" or the midlife malaise of "I Will Kill Again": "Log on in the nighttime/Drink a half-bottle of wine/Buy a couple of records/Look at naked girls from time to time." Best of all, "Tonite" is a Serge Gainsbourg-style anthem, where Cocker abandons any kind of joker pose to plead, "The night belongs to lovers/So show some respect." Respect granted!
(Posted: Mar 20, 2007)
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- Loss Adjuster (Excerpt, Pt. 1)
- Don't Let Him Waste Your Time
- Black Magic
- Heavy Weather
- I Will Kill Again
- Baby's Coming Back To Me
- Fat Children
- From A To I
- Disney Time
- Tonite
- Big Julie
- Loss Adjuster (Excerpt, Pt. 2)
- Quantum Theory
- Running The World
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