Farewell to Paradise

Farewell to Paradise (1973) is the fourth album by Emitt Rhodes. An eclectic mixture of rock, pop, jazz-funk and soul. Due to the pressure of his record label suing him for his failure to complete his contract for 6 albums in 3 years, many of the songs exhibit more somber, gloomy tones than Rhodes' previous albums.

"Those That Die" is derived from "Tame The Lion", a furious anti-war song that was issued as a single in July 1972. "Tame the Lion" has a fast tempo, and "Those That Die" uses part of the lyrics from the bridge of "Tame the Lion", but at a slow tempo and chords from a minor key.

The initial pressings of this album were mispressed and featured the audio from the unreleased album by Toronto band Dixie Rumproast - Well Done. Many of them are still in circulation.

Track listing
All songs by Emitt Rhodes


 * 1) "Warm Self Sacrifice"
 * 2) "See No Evil"
 * 3) "Drawn to You"
 * 4) "Blue Horizon"
 * 5) "Shoot the Moon"
 * 6) "Only Lovers Decide"
 * 7) "Trust Once More"
 * 8) "Nights Are Lonely"
 * 9) "Bad Man"
 * 10) "In Desperate Need"
 * 11) "Those That Die"
 * 12) "Farewell to Paradise"

Personnel

 * Emitt Rhodes - all instruments and voices
 * Keith Olsen - mixdown engineer
 * Richard Dashut - assistant mixdown engineer