Word: balladeering
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Adrenalize has the hauntingly aching rock ballad "Tonight." Joe Elliot's vocals have the right amount of angst to give the song its emotional strength. Phil Collen's guitar is hypnotic. This is not the only track where the guitar takes control. "White Lighting," a tribute of sorts to the Steve Clark, has mesmerizing guitar riffs that are reminscent of Clark's work in "Bringin' on the Heartbreak...
...essence, above all, is in a ballad like The Dance, a palliative for a generation that has begun to lick old wounds as it approaches middle age. "I could have missed the pain," he sings. "But I'd of had to miss the dance." The video of The Dance shows images of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, and the song's autumnal, retrospective tone is what seems to touch millions of listeners. Says Sue Thayer, 43, a machine-shop secretary from Grayling, Mich., and a convert to country music from rock: "It's about love affairs gone...
...tune "Ain't Misbehavin," the Callbacks announced that they were going to do one of their more traditional numbers, "The Old Irish Blessing." Just as they lulled the audience into a deep sleep, the song broke out in a furiously obnoxious rap, only to finish one minute later in ballad form...
Following a wonderful rendition of the ballad "Breathe," the group closed in its humorous path with an original rap called the "PC Blues." This satire poked fun at the prevailing Thought Police and their tired debate about the correct usage of "vertically challenged" versus "short." You be the judge...
This album also displays their absolute mastery of the 6/8 country ballad ("If you were the woman and I was the man"--a duet with John Prine), the prison song ("Oregon Hill") and the music-industry (or meta-) song ("To Live is to Fly"). Along with these, though, are the kind of sustained big-art-songs, like the title track that I, at least, expect from the Junkies...