1 This Is My Town
2 Miss Fritchie
3 Oh My Brother
4 The Bridge
5 Bookends
6 Mistress Snow & Mary Jane Green
7 Moons Of Jupiter
8 Rolling Pin
9 Soup Comes Cheap
10 Jerusalem
11 Catchers Drummers Anchormen
12 You & Me In A Rowboat To Rio
13 When The Last Page Is Turned

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Least favorite EfO CD, but still a great CD

 Album Rating: (4 of 5 stars)

Review Comments: By least favorite, I just mean of all their CD's, this is the one that I listen to the least. I think part of it is many of the songs appear in better versions live on "Portable EfO Show" and are much better live.
Some of the songs sound like filler, which is rare among EfO CD's; usually all the songs are top notch. But, "Mistress Snow & Mary Jane Green" and "Moons of Jupiter" just never did it for me. There are a couple songs that appear only on this CD and are great, like "Catchers Drummers Anchormen" and "When The Last Page Is Turned."
Still a great CD, just not as good as all their others.

One of their best...

 Album Rating: (5 of 5 stars)

Review Comments: This is one of the EFO CDs that epitomizes the group for me. The lyrics are clever, the fast songs have a great beat (This My Town, Rolling Pin, Rowboat to Rio), the slow songs, are BEAUTIFUL (Oh My Brother, Jerusalem)... All the songs are intelligent, some funny, some moving. It's just a really great mix. A couple of readers said that they preferred Looking Through the Fishbowl, but for money, this CD feels more... substantial somehow. It just gets better with time.

edhead

 Album Rating: (4 of 5 stars)

Review Comments: Again, a great piece of work by the always talented EFO. This was my second EFO purchase. Not quite the same pace as Fishbowl, but very well received. Overall a great piece of musicianship.

Okay so maybe it's 4.99999999...

 Album Rating: (5 of 5 stars)

Review Comments: I love this CD. It's the only Eddie CD I own so I can't in any way compare it to their other stuff. As good as it is though, Eddie sounds much better in concert. I would definitely recommend seeing them.

It starts off with the bouncy "This My Town" that nearly always gets me singing along. Other highlights are "The Bridge" which has incredible drums. "Bookends" is beautiful in a simple true kind of way. "Mistress Snow and Mary Jane Green" and "Soup Comes Cheap" have some great lyrics. "Jerusalem" nearly always gets me in tears, especially now with the depressing situation in Israel. "You and Me in a Rowboat to Rio" is what originally got me to make this purchase. It's impossible NOT to fall in love with it. The melody is the most gorgeous thing. It's perfect in all regards, the way it starts off slow and pretty, and then gradually evolves into the happy upbeat tune that it will keep thereafter. I just looove this song. "When the Last Page is Turned" is the best possible way to finish off a CD like this. Breath-takingly amazing in an understated, unpretentious way. Like this CD.

Has its ups and downs

 Album Rating: (3 of 5 stars)

Review Comments: I started with their most recent album, "Looking out the Fishbowl," which was so addictive that I couldn't even listen to anything else for two solid weeks. After that, "I Rode Fido Home" , while still a good album, was a relative letdown. It has its moments, when that EFO catchiness and quality shines through as strong as anywhere else, but it has several songs that just don't soar.