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James Taylor - Flag


James Taylor
Flag

   

The James Taylor who gazes out from the gatefold of Flag is an emaciated, jaundiced Yankee eccentric glaring at us with cold, eagleeyed skepticism. The picture is almost the negative of the movie-star-glamorous photo on the cover of JT, the album that marked Taylor's corporate switch from Warner Bros. to Columbia in 1978. But the aesthetic shift from last year's debonair to this year's dour isn't just a gimmick. Whereas the material and tone of JT suggested a similar mellowing of Taylor's personality, Flag's thorny songs and hard, tense arrangements bear witness to the stark and piercing artwork.

If JT presented the kind of urbane, sexy, humorous person
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that we'd all like to know, Flag peels away the glamour to expose the flinty marrow of a hostile stranger. None of the new cuts has the tantalizing wit of "Handy Man" or the delicious ironic glee of "Secret of Life." Instead, Flag offers the grim self-portrait of a chronically depressed man with a monkey on his back, as Taylor relentlessly accumulates correlatives to his own despair.

One of Flag's strategies is the disparagement, from the viewpoint of the common man, of the American ideals of freedom and work. Taylor obsessively goes all the way with this idea, reiterating in track after track that such freedom never really existed because life itself is a cruel imprisonment. The crux of the LP comes in four dramatic monologues, one of which, "Company Man," is obviously autobiographical. "Company Man" is Taylor's unsparing condemnation of the corporate rock & roll star system. "So if there's something you do well/Something you're proud of/Better to save some for yourself/If that's allowed," he advises an up-and-coming musician.

The other three monologues also examine work, but find only boredom and exploitation. Taylor sees little difference between the life of a rock star—even one as successful as himself—and the more common forms of labor. (A dangerous notion, but he pulls it off.) They're all just jobs whose twin functions are to kill time and make someone else rich at one's own huge psychic expense. "Millworker," Flag's most eloquent song, portrays a widow looking back miserably on a bad marriage and ahead toward nothingness. The narrator of "Brother Trucker" is so hopped up on pills that he literally sees double. "I'm a driving fool/I make my own rules," he proclaims, knowing full well he's lying. Convicted of murder and rotting in an Alabama jail, the protagonist of "Sleep Come Free Me" is a prisoner of the state. Not even allowed the distraction of drudgery, he prays for unconsciousness.

Desolation and rage abound in the compositions that aren't concerned with work. In "I Will Not Lie for You," the artist administers a savage tongue-lashing to a close friend's wife for coming on to him. "Johnnie Comes Back" cryptically describes a man's desperate game of hide-and-seek with his own drug h

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  Artist   Title Condition   Format   Price USD
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    James Taylor   Flag
CD   $3.30   Light Blue
Argenti   
    James Taylor   Flag
James Taylor - Flag Upc: 886972399027 Company Manjohnnie C Sbme Special Mkts., 2/1/2008
Brand New CD   $5.25   BetamOnline
USA   
    James Taylor   Flag
Brand New From A Seller With A High Star Rating 02/01/2008
Brand New CD   $6.06   EverCheap
USA   
    James Taylor   Flag
Columbia (2097)
USED CD   $9.47   Studio
UK     
    James Taylor   Flag
Year: 1990; Label: Sony
Like New CD   $9.99   SSM Music
USA   
    James Taylor   Flag
Sony 39902
NEW & CD   $10.26   Music Connec
USA   
    James Taylor   Flag
509974974492 record ed: 1979 Cdx1 Edition: 1979 Flag Barcode: 509974974492 Special Order
CD   $44.30   CDExpress
Netherl   
    James Taylor   Flag
EX/EX CD   $48.58   F-seventies
France     
    James Taylor   Flag
12 Track Gatefold Album From 1979 With Lyrics On Inner Sleeve. Cbs/86091
VG/VG LP   $3.28   Elvis Shakes
Scotlan   
    James Taylor   Flag
Columbia, Gatefold, 1979, 36058
VG+ M- LP   $3.45   Brothers
USA   
    James Taylor   Flag
Columbia36058 Columbia
VG+ LP   $5.50   Weird Harold
USA   
    James Taylor   Flag
/ 1979 Usa - Foccatalog Number: Pc 36058 Columbia
M-/M- LP   $6.22   H&E Reco
Germany   
    James Taylor   Flag
33 Cbs, 1979
VG / VG LP   $6.52   Kinace
UK     
    James Taylor   Flag
NEX/NM LP   $8.25   Bside the
UK     
    James Taylor   Flag
Company Man/johnnie Comes Back/day Tripper/i Will Not Lie For You/brother Trucker/is That The Way...
Ex Ex LP   $12.15   Vinyl Soluti
Austral   
    James Taylor   Flag
Brazil, Cbs, 230027, 79
ex- LP   $10.00   Faunus
Brasil   
    James Taylor   Flag
Tracks: 1-company Man 2-johnnie Comes Back 3-day Tripper 4-i Will Not Lie For You 5-brother Truck...
VG VG LP   $11.38   sebo do disc
Brasil   
    James Taylor   Flag
Fc36058
ex LP   $9.88   Al's Tracks
UK   
    James Taylor   Flag
Artist: James Tayloralbum: Flagcatalog Number: Fc 36058vinyl Condition: Usa
VG++ LP   $14.00   Shuga
USA   
    James Taylor   Flag
Cbs 86091
LP   $18.15   DAVID SHOBEN
UK     
James Taylor - Flag   James Taylor   Flag
Us, Columbia, 1979
Very Good LP   $19.19   hhv.de
Germany   
    James Taylor   Flag
Nl, Cbs, Cbs 86091, 1979
ps LP   $20.44   Black Rhythm
Netherl   
    James Taylor   Flag
12 Track Cbs Records 1979 Gatefold With Inner Sleeve 1979 S Cbs 86091 M/m
LP   $26.40   VinylUK
UK   
    James Taylor   Flag
54110 lp/ Cond. Record/sleeve: Vg++/nm Stereo Orig Black Label: Cbs Fc 36058 Special Order
LP   $29.48   CDExpress
Netherl   
    James Taylor   Flag
Gatefold Cover-pro O-spanish Titles On Bc Argentina, Cbs 119978
NM NM LP   $32.40   Latin Collec
Argenti     

  Artist   Title Condition   Format   Price USD
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Flag - James Taylor   James Taylor   Flag
Excellent. Demo Sticker On Cover. Usa, Columbia Al36058, 1979
Excellent LP   $33.33   Don Hartman
USA     
James Taylor - Flag Album   James Taylor   Flag
-side 1: Company Man - Johnnie Comes Back - Day Tripper - I Will Not Lie For You - Brother Truck...
vg 12"   $3.95   Unclerays
USA     
    James Taylor   Flag
Australian Pressing On The Cbs Records Label In Near Mint Condition. Gatefold Cover And Pictured ...
Near Mint LP Gatefold   $11.05   Crypt Record
Austral     
    James Taylor   Flag
Lp + Cdr Copy: Ex Columbia, 1979, Photo Lyric Sleeve, Gatefold: This Is An Excellent Lp That Special Order
NEW LP+CDR   $48.95   cdBBQ
USA   
    James Taylor   Flag
Lp And Digitally Remastered Audiophile Cd. Professional Artwork, Track Listing, Cd Jewel Case Etc Special Order
New LP+CDR   $49.55   Vinyl Revolu
USA   
    James Taylor   Flag
12" And Digitally Remastered Audiophile Cd. Professional Artwork, Track Listing, Cd Jewel Ca... Special Order
New 12"+CDR   $33.90   Vinyl Revolu
USA   
    James Taylor   Flag (gatefold)
Inner Sleeve/lyrics Canada, Columbia, Al-36058, 1979
VG+ VG+ LP   $7.35   Never Ending
Canada     
    James Taylor   Flag (gatefold)
Inner Sleeve/lyrics lp + Cdr Combo - This Price Includes Original Lp Plus A Backup Cdr Of The Or...
VG+ VG+ Other   $17.85   Never Ending
Canada     
James Taylor - Flag (japanese Obi Strip Lp)   James Taylor   Flag (japanese Obi Strip Lp)
Japan '79 Orig.gatefold Slv.12tr Lp With Obi Strip,original Inner Slv.(with English Lylics),japan...
M- / M- LP   $23.00   Clear
Japan     
    James Taylor   Flag -
VG+/VG+ LP   $71.40   F-seventies
France     
    James Taylor   Flag - Lp
Lp + Cdr Copy: Ex Uk With Gatefold And Inner Sleeves Tracks Are Company Man/johnnie Comes Back/da... Special Order
NEW LP+CDR   $61.95   cdBBQ
USA   
    James Taylor   Flag Gatefold
Lp And Digitally Remastered Audiophile Cd. Professional Artwork, Track Listing, Cd Jewel Case Etc Special Order
New LP+CDR   $52.30   Vinyl Revolu
USA   
    James Taylor   Flag Remast
EX/EX CD   $52.33   F-seventies
France     
    James Taylor   Flag [import] [original Recording Remastered]
Year: 2006; Label: Sony Japan
New CD   $54.06   SSM Music
USA   
    James Taylor   Flag [original Recording Remastered]
Year: 2000; Label: Sony; tracks: 1. Company Man 3:47; 2. Johnnie Comes Back 3:55; 3. Day Tripper...
New CD   $11.06   SSM Music
USA   
    James Taylor   Flag*
Cbs, 86091, 1979
EX LP   $6.58   Good Vibrati
UK     
    James Taylor   Flag, Pic/lyric Inner, G/fold Sleeve, S Cbs 86091
Ex/Ex LP   $9.08   Canny Music
UK     
    James Taylor   Flag`
Columbia,orig.,gatef old,36058,1979,lyric Sleeve,woc
VG+ M- LP   $4.60   Brothers
USA   
    James Taylor Popular   Flag
EX/EX CD   $84.44   F-seventies
France     
    Taylor James   Flag
James Taylor - Flag Upc: 886972399027 Company Manjohnnie C Sbme Special Mkts., 2/1/2008
Brand New CD   $5.25   BetamOnline
USA   
    Taylor James   Flag
NEW CD   $7.24   HARD TO FIND
USA   
    Taylor James   Flag
Sonyspec
NEW CD   $7.33   GrooveNet
USA   
    Taylor James   Flag
Sbmk723990.2 new Copy/ Barcode: 886972399027 Releasedate: 2-1-2008 Style:rock Title: Flag Special Order
CD   $16.15   CDExpress
Netherl   
    Taylor James   Flag
22859 rare, Hard To Get! Condition Sleeve/record: Vg+/m- Gatefold Cover Style: Rock 70 Special Order
LP   $16.15   CDExpress
Netherl   
    Taylor James   Flag
Lp Cbs
M-/M- LP   $33.60   Musica Music
Italy     

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    Taylor James   Flag
Lp And Digitally Remastered Audiophile Cd. Professional Artwork, Track Listing, Cd Jewel Case Etc Special Order
New LP+CDR   $52.62   Vinyl Revolu
USA   
    Taylor James   Flag - Cbs
VG+/VG+ LP   $168.00   Recsim
France     
    Taylor James   Flag S Woc Wos Wrc
Col Fc 36058 e
LP   $8.00   Record Finde
USA   
    Taylor James   Flag S Woc Wos Wrc
Lp And Digitally Remastered Audiophile Cd. Professional Artwork, Track Listing, Cd Jewel Case Etc Special Order
New LP+CDR   $52.95   Vinyl Revolu
USA   
    Taylor, james   Flag
Includes Original Artwork - 100% Guaranteed! Ready To Ship! Cb36058
Very Good CD   $6.05   orbitmgm
USA   
    Taylor, james   Flag
New CD   $6.25   CDQuest
USA   
    Taylor, james   Flag
Japan Promo Issue Cd Album W/ Obi - Still Sealed Sicp8043
sealed sea CD   $24.96   Tokyo Music
Japan     
    Taylor, james   Flag
Brand New Various, Mhcp-1190pmi
M M CD   $29.69   Altern 8
UK     
    Taylor, james   Flag
Nice Clean Used Lp. No Noise Or Scratches. Gatefold Cover. Us, Columbia, 36058, 1979
VG+ LP   $1.99   Merlins
USA     
    Taylor, james   Flag
Columbia, 1979, Photo Lyric Sleeve, Gatefold
VG+ VG+ LP   $2.30   Brothers
USA   
    Taylor, james   Flag
Rw,ew,bc Columbia, Fc36058
VG+ VG+ LP   $3.00   In The Groov
USA     
    Taylor, james   Flag
Columbia, Fc36058
NM/NM LP   $3.24   Nick's World
USA     
    Taylor, james   Flag
Gf. Sm Sawcut On Spine. 2" Long Ink Line Ofc. Ca, Columbia, Fc 36058, 1979
VG VG+ VG+ LP   $3.45   suncoast
Canada     
    Taylor, james   Flag
Columbia Fc36058 / 1979
VG+ / VG+ LP   $3.99   Musical Ener
USA   
    Taylor, james   Flag
Includes The Custom Inner Sleeve With Lyrics. Usa, Columbia, 36058
NM/NM LP   $4.40   Jads Jams
USA   
    Taylor, james   Flag
Uk, Gatefold + Inner - Cbs 86091
EX/EX LP   $4.99   RIVERSIDE
UK     
    Taylor, james   Flag
0 1979--g/fold Cv--inner Sleeve (m-) Ca, Columbia, 36058
NM / NM LP   $5.00   RECORD KINGD
Canada     
    Taylor, james   Flag
Cover Vg+. 12 Cuts. Lyric Sleeve. Radio Timing Strip On Ft Cvr. Cbs, 36058, 1979
VG LP   $5.40   reporecords
USA     
    Taylor, james   Flag
Colored Labels / Lyric Sleeve / Gatefold Columbia Fc-36058, B, 1979
VG++ LP   $5.50   Krohn's Boul
USA     
    Taylor, james   Flag
Strong Vg, Original Inner Sleeve Canada, Columbia, Fc36058, 1/1/1979
VG VG LP   $5.51   Never Ending
Canada     
    Taylor, james   Flag
Promo With Timing Strip
VG+ LP   $6.48   GrooveNet
USA   
    Taylor, james   Flag
1979,gfld Columbia
M-/M- LP   $7.20   Solid Viper
USA   
    Taylor, james   Flag
Inc Hol, Cbs, 32220, 1979
Ex (-) Ex LP   $7.41   RECORD WORLD
Norway   
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