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Such anecdotal (and venereal) gems pepper this quite definitive, nearly 1,000-page tome, recounting the lives of the Fab Four from their ancestral origins all the way through the band??s dissolution in April...
Harvard students considering inter-disciplinary work need only look to Spitz’s analysis of the band??s formation to see a master at work. The book does not begin with the creation of the band. The narrative begins in 1800s Liverpool, mapping out the socioeconomic formation of the city. Spitz uses this setting as a platform to describe the historic Irish migration patterns that brought both the Lennons and McCartneys to Liverpool...
...incomprehensible. Although it’s only 55 minutes long, it’s a chore to get through, even today.But somehow, in between awful junk like “Extradition” and “Flux = Rad,” the album has some of the band??s greatest triumphs. “AT&T” is one of Malkmus’ best love songs. “Half a Canyon” is terrifying in its drive. “Grounded,” a ballad about a dentist, is still chilling a decade...
...Thickfreakness,” the title track of their 2003 release, Carney beat furiously on his spare drum kit, and the tone was set for the rest of the night. Auerbach, if not a guitar god then surely a demi-god, let loose even more than on the band??s four full-length albums, taking the unchained punch of the band??s songs to a whole new level. Classic favorites like “Set You Free” and a cover of Chuck Berry’s “Have Love Will Travel...
What makes Flowers’ grandiose statements particularly unpalatable is the band??s unwavering mediocrity. They quote their influences—80s commercial New Wave on their debut “Hot Fuss,” and now, on “Sam’s Town,” Bruce Springsteen—verbatim, adding nothing new. They steal without contrition, and, what’s worse, without irony...