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...what to think of this album. First of all, let's put the matter to rest. Gomez are good. They are very good. Their debut album Bring It On won one of England's most prestigious music awards, the Mercury Music Prize. Their 1999 American tour brought much critical acclaim and the approval of countless audiences. But the best thing about Gomez is that they don't seem to take themselves too seriously. Having said that, there not much apart from the inherent joy of the music that unites Gomez's sound. Abandoned Shopping Trolley Hotline is a motley collection...
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...cough syrup the whole time."... I think Garth Brooks' recent retirement is a bit of a hoax. He's still desperate to break that Beatles' sale record, so he'll lay low and then pull a "comeback" stunt in a couple of years to massive acclaim. How do I know? Because during his "retirement," his record company will rerelease each of his six albums and bring out new versions of some old songs in order to inch him closer to the Beatles' tally... I want to go to Madonna's party! She's throwing a fiesta at the Roseland Ballroom...
...Surprises"), Kafkaesque visions ("Paranoid Android"), obligatory condemnatory ballads ("Karma Police," "Lucky") and a pleasingly incongruous-yet-wicked-good rock song ("Electioneering") assembled a musical line-up so good that one instantly forgave the band for the tiresome poem "Fitter Happier" occupying the seventh track of the album. The unanimous acclaim OK Computer received and subsequent appearance on every music magazine's "Top 10 albums of the Year" lists (as well as on countless top-10-albums-of-all-time lists) left music-lovers and critics alike standing over Radiohead's ashes and wondering what their fourth release would bring...
DIED. ABRAHAM PAIS, 82, physicist and science historian; in Copenhagen. After surviving Nazi persecution in Holland, Pais conducted research at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J. Later in life he won broad acclaim for his biography of Albert Einstein and essays on other scientists...