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...Five’s” smoothed-out cousin, “Attention,” that burns on verses of pure, exhilarating power chords, chopped up with the kind of funky breakdowns that are missing from the rest of the album. “Rich Kid Blues?? builds steadily, even brilliantly, into a jam-session explosion where, for once, White’s acrobatics are given their due floor space.But with these gems composing a small portion of the entire album, there is little more to “Consolers of the Lonely” than disappointment...
...African-American, eleven-year old Woody Guthrie (Marcus Carl Franklin) and Old Man Arvin (Richie Havens) singing “Tombstone Blues?...
...Varsity Blues??—because Opera should also be about delinquent teenagers and delectable costumes. Show stopping aria: “I don’t want you’re life”. Probably by Mozart because of the complicated love relationships...
...album makes two ultimately doomed plays for creative credibility: the back-to-back combination of “Gotta Be Somebody’s Blues?? and “Feeling Lucky.” Not surprisingly, the first squanders the respectable tension built by an eerie string section, creepy vocals, and a disorienting beat. It quickly runs out of steam and reveals itself as a rip-off of Nine Inch Nails’ “Closer” without the grimy, visceral payoff...
...just heard; I saw that I hadn’t been lied to. Sure enough, the Weathermen—who rose from the ashes of the defunct Students for a Democratic Society in 1969, taking their name from Bob Dylan’s “Subterranean Homesick Blues?? lyric, “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows”—carried out a casualty-free campaign of pre-announced bombings of dozens of public buildings; the U.S. Capitol truly was among them...