First Time Hearing | Jackson Browne - The Pretender | REACTION/REVIEW

Jackson Browne - The Pretender | REACTION/REVIEW
BizMatik Reviews and Reacts to Jackson Browne - The Pretender
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[@pamelawertz498]

Dude, you never talk too much. I was really appreciating your point of view about the meaning of not only this song, but the way you see something about yourself that he wanted to show you. That is 😊genius writing.

[@watchbizmatik]

I appreciate that

[@blanebienvenu7280]

Dive into Jackson Browne you won’t be disappointed… He is very well respected amount peers

[@dagmar.6954]

Jackson Browne started his career writing songs for other artists such as the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (he was briefly a member in 1966) & the Eagles (Browne co-wrote "Take It Easy"). But in the 70's he started recording his own songs. He had a lot of hits 70's-80's such as "The Load Out/Stay", "Rock Me On The Water", "Here Come Those Tears Again", "Tender Is The Night" etc.

[@Hobodeluxe960]

Running On Empty, Doctor My Eyes, Lives in the Balance.

[@dagmar.6954]

He already reacted to a few of those.@@Hobodeluxe960

[@johnharkness7114]

And even for Nico!

[@michaellamb9596]

Great lyrics from one of the greatest song writers

[@Mishluvdabeach]

The Pretender is amongst my most favorite Jackson Browne songs. He's an amazing songwriter and performer.

[@karenj3611]

Me too

[@deegomez2089]

Underrated songwriter imo. He's right up there with the best of them 🎶🎵

[@davidbordonaro1631]

this album was a Xmas gift from my late sister in 1976 . this will be the first Xmas without her . funny the things we think of

[@megandavies8590]

Play the whole thing , in her honour. Condolences to you.

[@AgingDrummerBoy-ly1js]

✌️❤️🙏

[@laurakali6522]

For a Dancer, These Days and In the Shape of a Heart.

[@julietate7806]

The live version on the BBC really showcases this song... just him and his piano.

[@cshubs]

I love this song and the whole album.

[@jeffkeith2718]

I love Jackson Brown. His voice is Gold. This man could sing the Phone book and I'd pay to listen to it. I have 7 or 8 of his his vinyl albums. Plus cassette tapes, and a couple of CD's. His voice is so smooth. This is a great song on life and how you grow in life and how life can beat you down inside. If you give up it's there to punish your spirit. Thanks Biz, love your channel Man.

[@barbarascotto3873]

He's in my top three favorite songwriters of all time. Please react to his "Sky Blue and Black".

[@bobdelp2023]

NIIIICCCE BIZ, GREAT SONG!!!👍😊 HERE'S A FEW MORE FOR YOU: THESE DAYS, LATE FOR THE SKY, FOUNTAIN OF SORROW 😊

[@kristahartmann6712]

This was considered a seminal work when it dropped. Jackson was too talented to have a niche. His catalog is worthy.

[@John_Locke_108]

One of the greatest story tellers ever.

[@bobdelp2023]

JACKSON WAS ALWAYSSSS DROPPING RHYMES, CRAZY GOOD BIZ!!!😊 TENDER IS THE NIGHT, IN THE SHAPE OF A HEART 👍 A COUPLE MORE THERE!

[@revaflowers3115]

Browne was blessed with a smooth and clear voice.My favorite song by him is Tender Is The Night.He has a nice play book. Lots of memorable songs.

[@brendamilloy2557]

Jackson, being blessed with a voice, a talent for song arrangements and song writing, became a student of himself, the human race and life itself. Those assets gave him the tools to become one of our most thoughtful and insightful songwriters. An excellent reaction, Biz! I think you would dig his "Your Bright Baby Blues." Another brilliant piece of songwriting and a look inside ourselves.

[@jeffjones6221]

Great song! One of my favorite Jackson Browne tunes. Very deep song really. Check out the load out/stay by him if you haven't already.

[@robertstoner8244]

Great great song excellent 👌 one of the best singer song writer ever

[@stillstanding8286]

David Crosby and Graham Nash on backing vocals here.

[@SouthTexasRocker1]

I just saw Jackson Browne and his badass band in Houston a few months ago. Amazing!!

[@evelynhoard2845]

My absolute favorite artist! Any song you choose will give you that same soul touching experience.

[@donalddingler1263]

He's been my favorite for fifty years, seen him twice over the years.

[@johnthegreek5836]

Jackson Browne is another great singer songwriter from this generation

[@ed.z.]

Bars! You are right. We need to clone Jackson Brown to preserve Cali Soul.

[@dirtinmyeye6505]

Load Out/Stay is one of my favorite songs. But for this one, Pretender, the next chapter is the kids grow, grandkids come, you're holding hands and say "Wow we did good".

[@randybaker6042]

Excellent reaction Biz. I expected nothing less. The song is about the age old conflict between pragmatism and love. Commercialism and art. I think the lines, "I'm going to find myself a girl who can show me what laughter means, and we'll fill in the numbers of each other's paint my number dreams" are masterful. Paint by number makes for a pretty picture but we were told which colors to use and where to put them.

[@clifton8929]

Thank you for playing Jackson Browne; he has good songs. Please keep going on to his masterpiece 'LATE FOR THE SKY' songs like LATE FOR THE SKY, FOUNTAIN OF SORROW, FARTHER ON, THE LATE SHOW, THE ROAD AND THE SKY, FOR A DANCER, and., BEFORE THE DELUGE. All amazing songs. Your thoughtful commentary always makes me smile. Your love of music shows in your eyes as it flows to your soul. Thanks again for all the hard work in bringing some light into our lives in the dark days. Big Soul Biz brings the love every time.

[@sandyshoenberger2697]

This album is one great story after another. His lyrics are so descriptive, you can't help but to become a part of the story he's telling. Your take on the lyrics/ meaning was spot on. Guy knows there is so much more to life, but he has to work. He watches as his dreams sail away. Then he decides he is going to fall in love and together they will make a happy life for themselves.

[@RichardDickson-to7zg]

Finally, someone got it right from the jump. The shade of the freeway is not prime real estate. this song is for most of the work-a-day world who've given up on their aspirations and settled! Not an indictment, just a sad fact of the world as it is. "Most people live lives of quiet desperation."

[@MRBrien77]

Gotta do Load out/stay the first half of the song is about the work that myself and others do to make a show happen. We call ourselves FILO First In Last Out

[@otisdylan9532]

That's a fine song, and I think you understood it. He dreamed a lot when he was younger, but ended up pursing money as he got older. I recommend "The Load Out"/"Stay" for your next Jackson Browne song. It's really 2 songs, but one goes seamlessly right into the other on the album.

[@billofalltrades2633]

A great artist, many good tunes! Great reaction !

[@johngilmer6782]

You can play some Jackson every day!

[@pamelawertz498]

You have to do The Load Out/Stay together. They go together.

[@maryellenazack4466]

Not to.be missed ! Load out/stay

[@hog7203]

Biz, this was a perfect song for you to check out. Excellent music, vocals and some deep shlyrics. Right up your alley. Jackson Browne is one of my favorite artists. And his band is kickass. Listen to his song Rock Me On the Water. It's probably my favorite, but he has so many amazing songs, that it's hard to single just one out.

[@rogerosterberger4627]

Thanks for letting us listen. Perfect volume. I hope you take suggestions because I'll keep you busy if you'll let me.

[@edwardcrews2952]

The Load Out-Stay. Banger

[@joelliebler5690]

A truly great song that says it all along with the fantastic musicians and Jackson’s emotionally draining vocals!You did Doctor My Eyes!

[@ed.z.]

Biz, you comments are from the heart and that is valuable information.

[@dow311]

I learn from the comments all the time, thanks.

[@cerisewilson4088]

Jackson Browne is one of my all time favorite artists and this is his best work in my opinion. I believe this album was made after the death of his first wife by suicide. He’s always been a very deep and introspective lyricist and even more so I feel on this album. Great reaction!

[@MattJocks]

Yes, I once read an essay about this album by Paul Nelson, a critic and friend of Jackson's. He laid out the track list like a movie. It starts with The Fuse (my favorite Browne song), which is like a movie that starts in the present day before going back to tell the story. The Fuse is him coming out of his grief and looking at the world around him again. Then, a 3-song cycle about the relationship from two damaged folks meeting to the relationship falling apart (in Here Come Those Tears). Then, Side 2. The heartbreaking Only Child, as he sings to his little boy, telling him to be kind to his mother's memory. Then Daddy's Tune, trying to patch his relationship with his father. Then the full grief of Sleep's Dark And Silent Gate and finally, the resignation of The Pretender.

[@mrnobody3161]

Thanks for this 🎶✌️🍁

[@cindyfalstrom7231]

@@mrnobody3161 OMG! I never knew any of this. Thank you for sharing. I am now inspired to listen to the whole album. How sad 💔

[@MikeOstrowski-iq8wf]

Great reaction Biz…. Still have my original pressing of this masterpiece of an album (1976) this whole album is Amazingly beautiful !!

[@gerhardbraatz6305]

Such great writing.

[@rc1564]

Love this album...I still have it

[@michaelbaucom4019]

JB, spinning a tale as only he can, great arrangement, excellent

[@kevinwingo1382]

Love your reactions bro 😎 keep it going Rock On

[@karenwalsh1143]

Great words!!! You really listened to the song! Great reaction, thank you! Believe me IT IS A WINK OF AN EYE!😢

[@changlyn100]

I love Jackson Browne's music.

[@ConstantGardener-q9q]

You GOT IT!!! Thank you for thinking deeply in your reaction!! Really appreciate it. So many other reactors are just trying to get clicks! But you are really listening to the music and the lyrics!!

[@watchbizmatik]

Thank you

[@tammydean3003]

Jackson is an all time favorite of mine. From the first time hearing the Running On Empty album I was hooked. He has many beautiful, meaningful songs that can really hit you in the feels. For A Dancer is another that sticks with me just as this one does. Thanks for checking him out and dive on in, I don't think you'll be disappointed. ❤

[@cindyfalstrom7231]

I love it when you go deep in a commentary, that's what sets you apart from some other reactors who only make banal comments. Please keep it up! You are so correct, these are deep lyrics and speak the truth. I do love Jackson Brown, even more now that I am an adult and have better perspective than when I first heard these songs as a teenger.

[@watchbizmatik]

Thanks Cindy

[@NeilDavino]

man your the only person/reviewer that got this song !!!!

[@wordstowordlessthings]

Thank you so much for this

[@RailsUpNorth]

I loved the fact you didn’t interrupt the song. Sun from me matey

[@jeffrick]

It's a prayer / sermon. The amens are essential. The Pretender has given up. He's going to find himself a house in the shade of a freeway... He wanted more out of life but he knows he can't get it, so he's going to be a happy idiot... Say a prayer for him.

[@rickward460]

As always Biz... you ROCK! Taken me way back, thanks for the trip! Spread the love 🐶😎🇺🇸

[@AgingDrummerBoy-ly1js]

Such a beautiful song, thanks Biz

[@knightngail1]

I think most everyone can relate to this song...

[@salmuscles]

Hi biz … when I die this song will be played at my funeral mass….

[@davemcbroom695]

Great tune Biz. Jackson has many great classic rock songs. He's a great poet.

[@edwardcrews2952]

Classic and Fire

[@joymoore1904]

Good analysis of a great song. 😊

[@jrepka01]

"I want to know what became of the changes we waited for Love to bring." When it was first released in the late 70s, this song represented nostalgia for the activist components of the baby boom generation, such as the civil rights and anti-war movements, and the rejection of materialism and the "American Dream" as defined by Madison Avenue. By the late 70s the older boomers were in their 30s and coming into the work force. They were portrayed as idealistic hippies rejecting their dreams for a better world for everyone and replacing them with self-centered dreams of bigger houses in the suburbs, bigger televisions, etc... This is where the Pretender comes in. He embraces a this materialistic lifestyle in place of bigger dreams that he had given up on at some point. Note that he and his lover's dreams weren't even their own, they were paint-by-numbers dreams, pre-packaged for the masses. You are the first reactor I've seen who understood what the song was saying on first listen. The song serves today as a reminder not to lose your youthful enthusiasm or become cynical about the world. Things never get better as quickly as you want them to, but if you give up they will never get better. The better world we want to live in is not a place, it is a goal. "Say a prayer for the Pretender, who started out so young and strong, only to surrender."

[@anthonyhedberg6471]

Somehow, Biz, I knew you would like Jackson Browne. Next up, check out "For America" and "Runnin' On Empty"...just for starters. More songs of life...enjoy the ride. Peace out brother. ✌😎

[@yvonnestevens6179]

Beautiful luv dis❤❤

[@watchbizmatik]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@willettafree7479]

This ia a great album. Next try "The Only Child"

[@lindasalaki9404]

Great song 👍☮️

[@Zhipfan]

This song is perfect

[@mikeglo168]

To me, this song is like the young man who says he will never be a family man and own a minivan only to find that is exactly what he has become.

[@tangobelair]

brilliant analysis

[@suemontague3151]

"Running on empty " " Stay "

[@HelynnHeels]

Excellent. Jackson never did a bad song.💗 Now do Browne and Zevon's MOHAMMED'S RADIO. please and thanky. 💋

[@HelynnHeels]

Also...have we discussed Warren Zevon? We must.

[@isebmazo2140]

BLACK AND WHITE, naturally

[@NotIfWhen]

Loved your review. Thought it was point on.

[@watchbizmatik]

Thank you!

[@gpal86]

Sounds to me like he’s talking about a man who does what he needs to and pretends it’s his dream. He’s a great writer.

[@lanceaxt7476]

Footnote: the year that Jackson recorded this album had been devastating for him. His wife, former model Phyllis Major, had committed suicide via a massive overdose of sleeping pills while Jackson was on tour, leaving him to raise their toddler son alone (she supposedly suffered from long-term mental health problems and severe postnatal depression after their boy's birth). The grief of her death permeated the writing and recording of "The Pretender" album, Browne channeling his loss and depression into the process (three songs on the album are about her).

[@yvonnecervantes3325]

Jackson Brown Running on empty

[@joeltwinx3805]

Americana

[@debbiethomasson2709]

Who covered this?

[@Daniel58S]

gary us bonds did a cover

[@debbiethomasson2709]

@@Daniel58S thx, brain cramp!