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Other songs include "The Vampire Strikes Back," "Spooky Kind of Love," "I've Had It"--the traditional romantic ballad in the second act--and the first act closer, "Fangs for the Memories...
...most underappreciated singers in country music is Grand Ole Opry star Little Jimmy Dickens, who turns 75 this year. Instead of being remembered for the fine ballad singer that he is, his main legacy is a string of rather silly novelty tunes (his biggest hit was "May the Bird of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose") perhaps engendered because crowds found it hard to take the less-than-five-foot Dickens seriously. It's a pity - he had a fine voice (it's a bit ragged now), some good material in his repertoire and a good heart...
...miniatures of their love ballad singing adult counterparts, pre-teen acts such as BreZe and Aaron Carter offer its listeners cheese-fried pop music that is thoroughly ridden with the fingerprints of a teen marketing-machine. Highly fabricated and mechanically produced with a pervasive blend of Backstreet Bop and Color Me Badd hip-hop doo-wop, pre-teen pop follows closely the recipes for commercialized music and suceeds marvelously at achieving lyrical triviality...
Since Green Day relinquished what tiny semblance of street credibility they had with the fluke success of 1997's mushy ballad "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)," it's instructive now, a couple of years later, to reevaluate what street cred really means. Friday night at the Axis was the time to do it. A small invite-only audience (kids who won tickets on the radio). No fireworks, no dancers, not even an opening act. Take that, arena rockers...
...fourth song, "How to Disappear Completely," is a beautiful ballad in the tradition of OK Computer's "Lucky" and The Bends' "Fake Plastic Trees." The minimalist lyrics and instrumentation are in concert with the song's theme of invisibility. However, there is still the rare indulgence; a gorgeous and unexpected melisma on "Strobe Lights" sets the song apart from its predecessors...