Word: bend
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Local police departments all over the U.S. regularly consult clairvoyants, who they feel give them supernatural clues in tough cases. In Washington weekly parties of goggle-eyed believers sit about caressing spoons so that their mind power can cause the silverware to bend, paying $30 for half an hour of this mind-expansion instruction. Late-night TV viewers can call a 900 number to be advised on their future -- for a price -- by soothsayers whom they will meet only by telephone, introduced by Israeli "superpsychic" Uri Geller. Blissful devotees of meditation techniques sit for endless hours in yogic positions...
...Origin deliver a tight but unimpressive performance on their new album, Bend. While the group plays well and the rhythm section is solid, the group sounds as if they are right out of the '60s. The old acoustic-guitar-and-organ formula is tired and self-indulgent...
Most of the time, the unoriginal music and uninspired lyrics drag through songs that are way too long. Not even "Bend" is spared from lines such as "you're my paper friend/see you hanging on my wall/I thought I lost you friend/but you were never lost...
...track "Giving It All" is a notch below "Bend." Worn-out music matches equally weak lyrics: "Yes, she's tired/ of putting up the fight/ but one touch of loving/makes everything right...
...Bend is the work of an immature group which needs to explore some untrodden ground. The Origin has potential but needs originality...