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Album Description: One artist...one decade...one hundred million albums sold! Garth Brooks remains the biggest Country artist of all-time. He harnessed the Country and Pop influences of has past and created a new kind of Country that appealed to different generations of fans and crossed over into the Pop market like no other artist before him. Garth Brooks changed the rules based on his talent alone. He became a worldwide superstar while remaining true to his humble roots, which added to his appeal. This is his 1990 sophomore album and features 'Friends In Low Places', 'The Thunder Rolls' and 'Unanswered Prayers'. Pearl.Amazon.com essential recording: No Fences captures Garth Brooks just after his initial success yet before superstardom. Though it includes "The Thunder Rolls," another of the pop-country power ballads he'd introduced with "The Dance," No Fences bounces mainly between impersonations--often catchy and engaging ones, but impersonations nonetheless. "Wild Horses" is straight-up George Strait, while "Two of a Kind" and "Friends in Low Places" are John Anderson and Hank Jr. respectively. The best moment, the Dan Fogleberg-like "Unanswered Prayers," relays a message either highly spiritual or hugely rationalized. Regardless, it succeeds because its delivery is earnest, sweet, and humble--something Garth wouldn't be for long. --David Cantwell
Customer Reviews:
- The best Garth Brooks album - One of the only country albums I can listen to in full.: "No Fences" (August 1990) is quite possibly the best "Garth Brooks" album ever. It features such staples as "Friends in Low Places," "The Thunder Rolls," "Two of a Kind, Workin' on a Full House," "Unanswered Prayers," Wild Horses," and the bonus track (on the CD re-master), "This Ain't Tennessee," which is by far one of his best tunes of the early 1990's.
Following his 1989 debut album, Brooks' "No Fences" WAS and (still) IS the most consistant release he has ever put out in his 20 year career as the world's biggest country-rock pioneer of the 1990's. Garth's hey day took place between 1990 and 1995, and this album is truly a testament to his "glory days" or "early days" preceding the flourish of albums that would follow in its footsteps not too long afterwards. Garth Brooks would soon follow "No Fences" up with 1991's "Ropin' the Wind," which is probably his second best original album, excluding his two top-selling HITS collections.
"No Fences" is sure to please anyone in the mood for a little good-time country-rock, and six songs/singles listed above will bring a smile to both Garth-Fanatics and casual listeners who don't have the time to weed through his entire catalog, in which a succession of studio albums were released in record numbers between 1989 and 2001.
Overall, the album (in its re-mastered form that is) remains a classic among the country music community, as well as those music lovers who enjoy listening to a purely, consistant album or two in order to mix up the seemingly endless daily dose of manufactured pop music that invades the airways these days. - Garth's best, a very good country album....: This is the only Garth Brooks still in my collection, and it's still pretty good and quite listenable. Garth is no Hank Williams, Patsy Cline, or Merle Haggard, but on this album, he manages to make a very good country album. Most modern country stars are slick and over packaged, but Garth never felt like that. One of my favorite songs on this album is New Way to Fly. It's one of Garth's most beautiful, moving songs (he also co-wrote it), and that song has the soul and depth that old country music always seems to find. As for the other songs, if you're not singing along to Friends in Low Places, you're an uptight sod. The song Unanswered Prayers is actually pretty good. Its lyric and message is quite moving. How many us have been p**sed at God for not answering our prayers, then years later thanking him for not having us go down that path? The song isn't Ecclesiastes or anything, but it's got a good message to it, which I dig. The Thunder Rolls bores me, though, despite being about an important subject. The song sounds too rock and roll to me, surprisingly.
Overall, this is probably the only Garth album that you really need if you're a casual fan. - Garth: I am not a really big Garth Brooks fan, but the one song. "unanswered Prayer" is worth the whole CD.
- Garth Brooks Fan: I got this CD out and played it and really like it again I like the song Unanswered prayers
- Half : I wanted to rate this latest release half, (three stars), because Pinoccio only has one woman to complete him right now. This is really starting to show through in his latest cd. The old stuff was FAR better. I love Garth's old stuff.
When Garth meets the other women he desperately needs in his life, and becomes "a real boy" - I will give Pinoccio five stars. I'm sure his music will improve then.
Isn't that what life's all about? Do a little memory dance through life, pat your wife on the head for being a good sport, and keep truckin until the next stop? What an ego! I am asking, because I am not as old as him yet, and I am still trying to learn.
His ex-wife may not be a glamorous singer, but she must be an amazing woman to devote her life towards his happiness.
I guess Hollywood will make a movie soon, and try to make her look evil or something.
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