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...trio also laments inner-city despair on the ballad Waterfalls (``My only bleedin' hope/ Is for the folk who can't cope''). But the secret of TLC's success isn't social commentary. It may not fit the initials, but what TLC really stands for is pure, funky fun. And CrazySexyCool delivers...
...trio also laments inner-city despair on the ballad Waterfalls ("My only bleedin' hope/ Is for the folk who can't cope"). But the secret of TLC's success isn't social commentary. It may not fit the initials, but what TLC really stands for is pure, funky fun. And CrazySexyCool delivers...
...knob, step on a pedal, etc. Not until the third song, "Minglewood Blues," did the band settle down and start to rock. People often forget that, among other things, the Greatful Dead are a great rock 'n' roll band. "Minglewood" was followed by "So Many Roads," a slow ballad that ended with some rousing and soulful singing by Garcia. After switching to an acoustic guitar, Weir led the band through a rocking cover of Bob Dylan's "Maggie's Farm," which then segued into the rarely played "Cumberland Blues." The set then took a turn for the worse with Weir...
Foster owes his current hitmaking not to changing with the times but to realizing that one kind of song bridges generation gaps: the ballad. While dance steps come and go, from twisting to voguing, kids and grownups alike still want slow numbers that let them pull their partners close. "There's always been a ballad in the Top 10," says Foster. "People love something with heart." For a while, teens favored the "power ballads" put out by hard-rock bands with gravel-voiced vocalists, but Foster has helped bring back the singing group. All-4-One, Color Me Badd...
Even on "Out of Tears," a ballad that sounds like it was meant for Top 40 stations across the nation, the Stones can't seem to muster the wrenching desperateness that made "Love in Vain" a slow staple. Luckily, the next song, "I Go Wild," comes to the rescue by managing to pick up a bit of the brashness of the "If You Can't Rock Me." This song also supplies a quick and non incongrous breath of "Gimme Shelter" from Ron Woods' b-bender guitar, two-thirds of the way through...