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• Artist: Jonathan Richman
• Album: Action Packed: The Best Of
• Label: Rounder
• Year of Release: 2002
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• Reviewed by: dscanland on 2003-03-31

Jonathan Richman has spent most of his life living as a cult status musician until he was hand picked to perform in the Something About Mary movie. After that we would have thought that Jonathan would have made tracks into the Billboard charts. Not so and probably for the best. In 1988 Richman’s first Rounder album debuted. It was entitled simply Modern Lovers 88, which was the name of his trio that he performed with. It was basically his last album with the trio and Jonathan went on to performing by himself. That is the period that Action Packed focuses on. He recorded for Rounder until 1995 in which he released one of his career’s strongest albums, You Must Ask The Heart. Jonathan Richman is a unique singer/songwriter in the essence that he prefers to perform in intimate settings and preferably on his own. This is a great document of Jonathan’s musical contributions to modern pop music. Find out what all his fans have known for such a long time. He is quirky in the best sense of the word and one hell of a talented songwriter.

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