Word: balladic
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...Open Up Your Heart” with the subsequent “I Need Your Love”—both songs share Luke Jenner’s high-pitched croon and snarky saxophone bits from Gabriel Andruzzi, but pounding beats mark the transition from sweeping ballad to stomping Eurotrash. Rather than bombard us with too many of these numbers, the Rapture opt for variation, succeeding amazingly with both kinds of songs...
...listening to his songs—that he has absolutely every prospect, every girl, every fun Friday night before him. Yet he pulls it off, and as his voice cracks under its own roughness in “Under Control,” the Strokes’ first ballad and the best song on Room on Fire, it’s obvious that he’s hungry for much more. If only we all had such problems...
...between the rousing power-pop of “Coma Girl” and “All in a Day” lilts the touching ballad “Long Shadow.” Though written for Johnny Cash, the lyrics easily fit Strummer’s own life when he concludes, “somewhere in my soul / there’s always rock and roll.” Like Cash, Strummer will live on forever in his rightful place as a rock and roll icon...
...still remember the day it happened. It was a sunny Friday afternoon in 1954. I was casually listening to the radio when Jo Stafford's rendition of Barbara Allen, a 17th century English ballad, came over the airwaves. It was the first folk song I had ever heard. At the time, I was a 14-year-old living in Denver with my parents and four younger siblings and preparing to perform Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto with a local orchestra...
Room on Fire reaches its peak with the tender midtempo ballad Under Control. It opens with Moretti's Zeppelin trick, takes off on Hammond's buoyant lead strumming and moves with the melodic sashay of a Bob Marley hit. Over the top of it all is Casablancas, going on about a relationship, of course. He sings, "I don't want to change your mind/I don't want to change the world/I just want to watch it go by." And if the Strokes want to look good doing it? I suppose that's excusable...