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...surprises of this album, however, is the extent to which the drums drive the songs. "W.M.A." (it stand for "White Male American") is a song which rails against racism in the police force. This tune is practically all drum and vocal, with a thrumming bass line in the background. The song's militaristic beat directly contradicts any attempt to classify Pearl Jam as a "guitar" band...
Tondel began her association with the band in 1956, when band members sought someone to paint an "H" on the bass drum. A graphic artist by trade, "Mom" was smuggled into The Game in exchange for her services, Everett said. She later accompanied the band on every trip it took and every gig it played...
...Love.) Meat contains most of his two solo albums, Seizure and Croaker--solo records in the literal sense, since there's no backing band and no studio musicians. Instead, it's Chris Knox singing, playing his loud'n'fuzzy guitar, then going back into the studio and playing a bass track, an organ line and/or a drum machine. (Sometimes a friend plays the cello...
...used to play the trumpet, too, but he seems to have stopped doing that since their last tour.) They're part of what must be the second, or third, or fourth wave of Pacific Northwest "minimalism" since Beat Happening decided around `83 that rock and roll could do without bass guitars for a while; at the moment--and as their show last week at the Middle East proved--the Spinanes are THE most talented exponent of this particular brand of stripped-down...
...album opens with "My Umbrella," a single which has gained substantial air-time on--you guessed it--alternative stations. The tune has the strong bass essential to alternative songs ranging from L7's "Pretend That We're Dead" to the Spin Doctors' "Two Princes," and features a catchy, somewhat inane, chorus: "Don't let your love/Fall on down on my umbrella." The guitar riffs are well executed if a tad typical, and singer Tim DeLaughter intones the lyrics with the prescribed amount of nasality. The song is entertaining, and "One Through Four" and "Blown Away" follow in the same vein...