. 'Don't Renege on Our Love'Released: April 1982chronology(1979)Shoot Out the Lights(1982)(1983)chronology(1979)Shoot Out the Lights(1982)One Clear Moment(1985)Shoot Out the Lights is the sixth and final album by husband-and-wife duo. It was produced by and released in 1982 on his label. A critically acclaimed work, AllMusic's noted that Shoot Out the Lights has 'often been cited as Richard Thompson's greatest work, and it's difficult for anyone who has heard his body of work to argue the point.'

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Contents.History After their 1979 album had sold poorly, and Thompson found themselves without a record deal. In the spring of 1980 they toured as the support act for and in June of that year they recorded some tracks at Studios in.Later that same year and with the Thompsons still without a contract, Rafferty stepped in and offered to finance and produce a new Richard and Linda Thompson album and then use his contacts in the industry and the finished album to secure a new contract with the Thompsons. This album was recorded during September and October 1980 at in Oxfordshire.As the project proceeded there was increasing tension between Richard Thompson and Rafferty. Thompson preferred a spontaneous approach to recording and found Rafferty's time-consuming and perfectionist approach hard to cope with. He also felt increasingly frozen out of the project: 'When he got to the mixing, I just didn’t bother to turn up.

Because if I said something it was totally ignored and I thought 'hey, whose record is this anyway?' 'Nevertheless, the album was completed, but Rafferty could not interest any record companies and lost in the region of £30,000 on the project. Copies of the tapes of the Rafferty-sponsored sessions have subsequently become available as a under the titles Rafferty's Folly and Before Joe Could Pull the Trigger.Finally, in the summer of 1981 signed the Thompsons to his small Hannibal label, and in November of that year the Thompsons went back into the studio and recorded a new album. Boyd's proposal, which the Thompsons accepted, was that the album be recorded in a matter of days so that money could be put aside for a tour of the USA. The resulting Shoot Out the Lights included fresh recordings of six songs that had been recorded during the Rafferty-sponsored sessions and two newer songs. Linda Thompson was several months pregnant when the album was recorded and so there was no prospect of an immediate release or supporting tour.

By the time the album was released Richard and Linda Thompson's marriage was over.Ironically, the album that was recorded when the Thompsons' career seemed all but over and which turned out to be their last album together was their best selling album and acclaimed as one of their greatest artistic achievements. Shoot Out the Lights and the May 1982 tour were crucial in re-launching 's career and in restoring his reputation as a songwriter and guitar player. Critical response Professional ratingsReview scoresSourceRatingAFor a release on an independent label, Shoot Out the Lights had a significant critical impact. Made it a pick hit saying 'these are powerfully double-edged metaphors for the marriage struggle'.

At the end of 1982, many critics placed the album on their year-end 'best of' lists, for example, placing it at #2 on Critics Poll. It has continued to be highly regarded. Praises it as 'a meditation on love and loss in which beauty, passion, and heady joy can still be found in defeat'. And called the album 'absolutely perfect' and cited it for its 'vividly emotional writing and the stirringly impassioned playing'.In 1987, Shoot Out the Lights was ranked #24 on magazine's '100 Best Albums of the Last 20 Years' and in 1989 it was ranked #9 on the same magazine's list of The 100 Best Albums of the Eighties. The album was ranked number 332 on its list of. It was voted number 422 in the third edition of 's (2000).

In March 2005, magazine placed the title song at number 99 in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks.Release history In 1990 Hannibal released Shoot Out the Lights on CD with the B-side 'Living in Luxury' as a bonus track on the first run. This song is not included on any subsequent editions of the album. In 1993 Rykodisc released it as part of their AU20 Mastering Gold CD series, with Dr. Toby Mountain of Northeastern Digital Recording, Inc., in using 's proprietary (SBM) mastering process to reduce the digital master from 20-bit to 16-bit required for the compact disc standard.

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Mountain again remastered the album in 2004 for release on (SACD) on Rykodisc. In 2005 the album was reissued on 180 gram vinyl by the 4 Men With Beards label. In October 2010 issued a deluxe 2CD edition of the album with 11 live bonus tracks and a 40-page booklet. Track listing All songs written by except as noted.Side one. 'Don't Renege on Our Love' – 4:19.

'Walking on a Wire' – 5:29. 'Man in Need' – 3:36. 'Just the Motion' – 6:19Side two.

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'Shoot Out the Lights' – 5:24. 'Back Street Slide' – 4:33.

'Did She Jump or Was She Pushed?' (Richard Thompson, ) – 4:52. 'Wall of Death' – 3:43'Living in Luxury' (2:32) was a included as a bonus track on reissues of the album.A two-disc 'de luxe' edition of this album was issued by Rhino Handmade Records in October 2010. The first disc had the eight tracks of the original album.

The second disc comprised live tracks recorded during the 1982 tour of the USA.The tracks on the second disc are. 'Dargai' (, arranged by Richard Thompson).

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Recorded in 1982 as the couple's marriage was unraveling, Richard & Linda Thompson's final album together turned into their most acclaimed work. A conflicting sense of regret and renewal fills these boldly sung, brilliantly played tracks, produced with a fine clear edge by Joe Boyd.

Shoot Out the Lights' songs veer between emotion-charged accusations ('Don't Renege On Our Love') and pleas for sanity and balance ('Walking On a Wire') while combining folk-inspired melodies with sinewy rock instrumentation. Richard unleashes volleys of searing guitar lines on the title track and 'Back Street Slide,' underscoring the heartache and anger in his lyrics. Linda's richly expressive singing lends songs like 'Just the Motion' a fathoms-deep poignance. The album ends with the uplifting 'Wall of Death,' an ode to risk taking and hard-won survival. Unflinchingly honest and unexpectedly life affirming amidst bitterness and sorrow, Shoot Out the Lights is a courageous achievement. Recorded in 1982 as the couple's marriage was unraveling, Richard & Linda Thompson's final album together turned into their most acclaimed work. A conflicting sense of regret and renewal fills these boldly sung, brilliantly played tracks, produced with a fine clear edge by Joe Boyd.

Shoot Out the Lights' songs veer between emotion-charged accusations ('Don't Renege On Our Love') and pleas for sanity and balance ('Walking On a Wire') while combining folk-inspired melodies with sinewy rock instrumentation. Richard unleashes volleys of searing guitar lines on the title track and 'Back Street Slide,' underscoring the heartache and anger in his lyrics.

Linda's richly expressive singing lends songs like 'Just the Motion' a fathoms-deep poignance. The album ends with the uplifting 'Wall of Death,' an ode to risk taking and hard-won survival. Unflinchingly honest and unexpectedly life affirming amidst bitterness and sorrow, Shoot Out the Lights is a courageous achievement.