Honest

About Honest

Honest is a 1991 album by Dave Stewart and the Spiritual Cowboys. It was Stewart's second and final album with the Pretenders' Martin Chambers after Annie Lennox left the Eurythmics to start a family.

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Contents

Track listing

All tracks composed by Dave Stewart; except where indicated

"Honest"

"Whole Wide World"

"Crown of Madness"

"Out of Reach" (music: Nan Vernon)

"You're Lost"

"Fools Paradise"

"Motorcycle Mystics"

"Impossible"

"Here We Go Again"

"Here She Comes"

"Fade Away" (music and lyrics: Jonathan Perkins)

"Cat with a Tale"

"R.U. Satisfied"

Personnel

Dave Stewart — lead vocals, guitar

Nan Vernon — backing vocals, guitar

John Turnbull — guitar, backing vocals

Jonathan Perkins — keyboards, backing vocals

Chris Bostock — bass, backing vocals

Martin Chambers — drums, backing vocals

Olle Romo — drums, drum programming

with:

Shankar — violin on "You're Lost"

Ruby Zimmermoon — harmonica on "Here She Comes"

Beverlei Brown, Carol Kenyon, Pamela Beckford, Valerie Chalmers — backing vocals on "R.U. Satisfied"

Technical

Manu Guiot — engineer, mixing

Alan Moulder — mixing on "Fools Paradise"

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Notable quotes

“He who says that there is no such thing as an honest man is himself a knave.”
— George Berkeley, as quoted in Ladies Home Journal Vol. 97, No. 8 (August 1960).
“The more honesty a man has, the less he affects the air of a saint.”
— Johann Kaspar Lavater, as quoted in Many Thoughts of Many Minds (1862) edited by Henry Southgate, p. 290.
“Keep your eyes open if you deal with him. — Why, isn't he honest? — Thomasus? Sure he's honest. You just have to watch him, that's all.”
— L Sprague de Camp, Lest Darkness Fall.
“A creature that cannot grasp the mutual exclusiveness of A and not A has no difficulty in lying; more than that, such a creature has not even any consciousness of lying, being without a standard of truth.”
— Otto Weininger, Sex and Character (1906), p. 150.
“Omnia quæ vindicaris in altero, tibi ipsi vehementer fugienda sunt.”
— Everything that thou reprovest in another, thou must most carefully avoid in thyself.
“Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.”
— George Washington, speech to the Constitutional Convention (1787).

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