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Play the Blue Danube, maestro. Would you dance with me, bass-guitar strumming god, or would you share some sherry, theatrical guru and 'art' director? Tonight I shall parade with a columnist (a brief affair, no doubt), while tomorrow I will idly chatter with a great philosopher, and write poetry when I return from the dance hall. And what harm can be done by such a life of dance? None, because one day the hall will have finished with your charms, and will cast you upon the mucky sidewalk of reality, where no golden slippers are lingering...
Greg Porter adds to this mix with consistent, rapid-fire bass playing. He also collaborates with Nash to write emotional, from-the-heart lyrics. Like alternative rock singers Black Francis (of the Pixies) and Thurston Moore (of Sonic Youth), Nash has the ability to switch her voice from a peaceful lullaby one moment to a rage-filled shriek the next. Her voice quietly draws in the listener before overwhelming with her sheer power...
...album, which should keep DJ's mixing and remixing for months. In the title track Dita asks, "If I take you from behind/Push myself into your mind/When you least expect it/Will you try and reject it." The naughty little form/context twist is that at standard club volume, the fat bass line under this song does physically invade your body. Other audio tricks abound. "Bye Bye Baby," for instance, whips Madonna's voice into a studio-distorted baby doll. The album also features a foray "Deeper and Deeper" into discoland, as well as a paean to oral sex in "Where Life...
...radio carried potent political messages, from Franklin Roosevelt's Fireside Chats to Fiorello La Guardia's reading of the comics during a newspaper strike to Father Charles Coughlin's charismatic hatemongering. Today that voice is still as personal as a conscience or a demon. Especially at midday, when the bass thud of a barroom rock band announces the arrival of Rush H. Limbaugh III, 41. "Ensconced in the Attila the Hun Chair at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies," Rush is ready to turn the disparate American radio audience into one big ear. "Turn it up, folks," he commands...
...Screaming Trees share their Seattle brethren's penchant for hooky guitar riffs and raspy vocals over dense layers of bass and drums. Like looking at the sun through opaque glass, one can discern shards of shiny, happy tunes underneath their sonic barrage...