Born Again (Randy Newman album)

Born Again is the sixth album by American composer Randy Newman.

Newman later said he thought the album, "was great and would create a big stir. I was looking forward to it coming out so much that I didn't fly any small planes before it was released." Instead, the album sold relatively poorly, with worse reviews than its predecessor. Newman called it "a larger insult," and reflected, "The mistake I made was that to do this, people have to know who you are in the first place." "It's a weird album full of peculiar songs like the one about an ELO fan getting everything wrong. It's very idiosyncratic, with small subjects. If it had been a hit to follow it might have been different but I have always written the same way." Ironically, Jeff Lynne would later be among the producers of Land of Dreams.

Track listing
All tracks written and arranged by Randy Newman.


 * 1) "It's Money That I Love" – 3:38
 * 2) "The Story of a Rock and Roll Band" – 2:53
 * 3) "Pretty Boy" – 4:00
 * 4) "Mr. Sheep" – 3:53
 * 5) "Ghosts" – 2:28
 * 6) "They Just Got Married" – 2:51
 * 7) "Spies" – 3:55
 * 8) "The Girls in My Life (Part One)" – 2:36
 * 9) "Half a Man" – 3:38
 * 10) "William Brown" – 1:50
 * 11) "Pants" – 3:06

Personnel

 * Randy Newman – vocals, piano, fender rhodes
 * Waddy Wachtel – guitar
 * Buzzy Feiten – guitar
 * Chuck Findley – horns
 * Tom Scott – horns
 * Victor Feldman – fender rhodes, drums, percussion
 * Michael Boddicker – synthesizer
 * David Shields – bass
 * Willie Weeks – bass
 * Andy Newmark – drums
 * Lenny Castro – percussion
 * Carlos Vega – percussion
 * Stephen Bishop – background vocals
 * Valerie Carter – background vocals
 * Arno Lucas – background vocals
 * Technical
 * Tom Knox - engineer
 * Lee Herschberg - mixing
 * Mike Salisbury - art direction, cover design
 * Mark Feldman - cover photography