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...effort to maintain a level of poetry in their lyrics, 10,000 Maniacs sometimes revert to weak, airy lines. In the title track, "Eden," the band gets a bit too caught up in the garden's imagery: "Willing to grow but rains are shallow/ Barren and wind-scattered seed on stone and dry land/ We will be/ Waiting for the light arisen to flood inside the prison...
...effort to maintain a level of poetry in their lyrics, 10,000 Maniacs sometimes revert to weak, airy lines. In the title track, "Eden," the band gets a bit too caught up in the garden's imagery: "Willing to grow but rains are shallow/ Barren and wind-scattered seed on stone and dry land/ We will be/ Waiting for the light arisen to flood inside the prison...
...England has the foliage/But I'm not coming back." On "Slash Your Tires," the message isn't any happier: "And all your fears/ It's nothing new/And all your tears/ They won't help you." Wareham laments a lot: a past girlfriend in "Time," fake politeness in "Smile," his barren hometown in "Goodbye," a lover he can't satisfy in "Anesthe...
...vacation-seeker would want to spend time in the barren, broken swaths of logged countryside. The loggers have turned many beautiful areas of the Pacific Northwest into ugly, bare brown-spots--almost totally devoid of life...
...BORDER BETWEEN TWO CULTURES can be a barren place. But for LOS LOBOS, a scrappy garage band born 18 years ago in the Chicano barrio of East Los Angeles, the gap between American music and its Mexican roots has been inspirational. The band reached a commercial apex with 1987's La Bamba, an international hit that was elevated beyond pop predictability by its intricate acoustic coda. That flourish of integrity was no fluke. Los Lobos' new album, Kiko, blends rock, jazz and Mexican folk styles with authority and panache; David Hidalgo's lambent vocals transport songs about hardship and redemption...