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...fact, their songs only gained new facets and complexities while retaining their heart and emotion. The latest compositions, which are culled from 1989's Rattle and Hum, still have that distinctive U2 sound, despite broadened instrumentation. "When Love Comes To Town" features B.B. King on vocals and guitar, and "Angel of Harlem" features a horn section...
...vocal quartet Dru Hill. Dru Hill's vocal recipe doesn't always work--the group sometimes settles for flashy sentiment instead of striving for true emotion. Still, numbers like the thoughtful remake of The Love We Had (Stays on My Mind) and the delicately felt ballad Angel make this CD really cook...
There used to be a time when you couldn't turn on MTV without seeing Juliana Hatfield's face. Whether it was Beavis and Butthead commenting on her masochistic video for "What A Life," her 1993 "buzz track" for the scathing "My Sister" or her turn as a homeless angel on everybody's favorite teen-angst drama My So-Called Life, Juliana was a pervasive presence on the airwaves. Add in hot rumors about her relationship with cuter-than-thou Lemonhead Evan Dando and also her supposed virginity, and Juliana was prime Kurt Loder fodder...
Williams is an example of the consummate artist--she aches to share her life with us. Unabashedly, she related the story behind "Drunken Angel," a song about a troubled friend who was shot dead in Austin. In contrast to her album, where Williams drunkenly drawls out the lyrics, vividly mirroring the sloshing of her friend's life, Williams performed a rather toned-down version. But she seemed more contemplative, more reflective. After the awkward anguish of Angel," Williams was finally ready to actively reveal her true self. Her words and lyrics were woven so seamlessly with the subdued melody...
...plaster Anubises and fiber-glass Amon-Ras, its cavernous interior housing a facsimile of the Manhattan skyline. Here, under construction, is a casino in the form of the Doges Palace in Venice, complete with a small-scale version of the Campanile bearing a replica of the original's gilded angel on its vertex. Here too is Caesars Palace, looking like the architectural dream of an illiterate Mussolini; and alongside it are the Forum Shops at Caesars, a sort of baroque moon colony completely sealed off from the outside world, with computer-controlled sky effects that cycle from rosy-fingered dawn...