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...come to Harvard to exist in a bland, colorless environment. Public holiday observances, secularized or still heavy with religious meaning, are an integral part of a vital and lively community. So give the Christian students their public Christmas trees. In a way, while I do not practice their religion, they are my Christmas trees...
...while McCartney is writing music with more soul than he has been able to muster for some time, Jagger, one of rock's most distinctive vocalists, is settling into a bland rut on Goddess in the Doorway (Virgin). From the anthemic Joy to the discolike Everybody Getting High, the music is generally as soft and slick as last month's pumpkin pie, with Jagger's long-suffering voice, which still has a lot of charm, blanketed in 21st century synthesized beats and airy piano lines supplied in part by au courant collaborators like Wyclef Jean. The strongest feeling it drives...
Motherland has some other good moments when Merchant ventures into the smoky, downbeat territory of the Cowboy Junkies. But mostly, the album is unremittingly bland, lacking the instrumental highs and energy of her work with the Maniacs, which is only approximated in songs like “Just Can’t Last...
...battered upright piano. For the majority, carols sung by the Vienna Boys Choir are just peachy, Bing Crosby pushes the envelope, and jazz should stay where it belongs—at the Village Vanguard. For the dissenting minority, holiday songs have long been beaten into unholy submission by endless bland repetition, and jazz giants provide a perfect remedy by taking tradition and swinging it mightily...
...don’t confuse “approachable” for “bland.” Frankie’s playing does border on the conservative side, but in his compositions, the depth of his musical knowledge emerges. The amorphous, ethereal introduction to “Mi Amiga Mi Amore” paid obvious homage to Miles Davis’ landmark album Sketches of Spain, and another self-composed number, “Smooth Ride,” has a lovely and palpably soothing warmth. Frankie always seemed more at home on his own compositions, extracting more...