Word: albums
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Judging from her latest album Brave and Crazy, Melissa Etheridge has a love life you wouldn't wish on your worst enemy...
...songs on this album, the first since her 1988 debut, Melissa Etheridge. each tell a story of lost love, dying love or unrequited love. Thankfully, Etheridge's voice is very much up to the task of conveying her emotions through music...
Etheridge, who opened for Little Feat's summer tour, rocked crowds into a frenzy (a nearly impossible task for an opening band) with the energy and emotion in songs from her first album like "Occasionally" and "Like the Way I Do." Brave and Crazy, while it treads most of the same musical ground as Melissa Etheridge, possesses the same vibrant vocals as the first album...
...page. Like the never ending loop of music in the lobby of a hotel in Sichuan province that alternates between a Rod Stewart oldie (Sailing) and a socialist goody (Without the Communist Party There Would Be No New China). Like the young man break-dancing to a blaring Madonna album amid a few hundred elderly tai chi practitioners at a Shanghai park. Like the reserve and civility evident in personal relations that rarely translate to civic responsibility. Like the more intractable tensions of incorporating the best of capitalism while preserving socialism -- tensions that have arisen because of, rather than...
PETE TOWNSHEND: IRONMAN (Atlantic). A fabulistic -- if not fully fabulous -- rock musical based on an allegory by the poet Ted Hughes. The album may lack Tommy's delirium, but at its erratic best, it has more soul...