Randy Newman – The Best Of Randy Newman (CD)

Randy Newman has always occupied a strange and singular corner of American music, writing songs that other artists turned into hits while his own recordings stayed weirder, darker, and more sardonic than any cover version could fully capture. A satirist with genuine melodic gifts, he drew equally from New Orleans R&B, Broadway, and the American songbook tradition, making him an unlikely but undeniable throughline from the Brill Building era to Pixar.