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...only in their 30s, but the group's newest album, No Code, makes it sound as if they're having a midlife crisis. The songs on the CD flail this way and that, screamingly loud on the vocal-chord-stripping song Lukin, restrained and dreamy on the ballad Off He Goes and fuzzily philosophical on the mostly laid-back number Present Tense. Sonic variety can be a good thing--the Smashing Pumpkins' brilliant double album, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, also veered all over the map--but too few of the songs on the Pearl Jam CD explore...
...Pearl Jam are only in their thirties, but the group's newest album, 'No Code,' sounds as if they?re having a mid-life crisis. "The songs on the CD flail this way and that, screamingly loud on the vocal-chord stripping song 'Lukin,' restrained and dreamy on the ballad 'Off He Goes,' and fuzzily philosophical on the mostly laid-back number 'Present Tense,' says Farley. 'No Code' is the sound of a band looking for a new direction, but too comfortable and cautious to follow through on its vision." Instead, the band seems content to follow trails blazed...
...Pearl Jam are only in their thirties, but the group's newest album, 'No Code,' sounds as if they?re having a mid-life crisis. "The songs on the CD flail this way and that, screamingly loud on the vocal-chord stripping song 'Lukin,' restrained and dreamy on the ballad 'Off He Goes,' and fuzzily philosophical on the mostly laid-back number 'Present Tense,' says Farley. 'No Code' is the sound of a band looking for a new direction, but too comfortable and cautious to follow through on its vision." Instead, the band seems content to follow trails blazed...
...spread the treasure of her voice over thousands of songs and half a dozen generations, cutting everyone in on the wonder. There was something about her voice that glistened, that refracted off an up-tempo number like a sudden shot of sun or shone off a ballad like a sideling beam of moonlight...
Still, Fitzgerald had a lurking melancholy in her best ballad performances that pushed past the pristine technical perfection of her pitch and phrasing into the night country. As a personality, she was remote, needing music to give her substance. As a performer, even to someone hearing her for the first time, she was an old friend. Talk about Ella or Billie, and no further I.D. is required. "It used to bother me when people I didn't know came up and called me Ella," she admitted once. "It seemed to me they should say Miss Fitzgerald, but somehow they never...