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Most of the album mines that song’s orchestral, cinematic formula to successful effect. What is surprising, however, is that Dougan sings on most of the tracks. His gravelly, expressive voice sounds like a mix of Nick Cave and Tom Waits, and the album often sounds oddly like one of Cave’s dark records set to heavily processed electronic beats...
...next 36 hours, the rebels were subjected to a suffocating air bombardment. According to U.S. military spokesman Colonel Roger King, American planes dropped 19 "cave busters," 2,000-pound bombs that blast deep into the ground. This was followed by a rain of 500-pounders and rocket and cannon fire from AC?130 gunships and Apache helicopters. "It looked like (the rebels) had lost their minds," says Raziq. "They were running in every direction." By Raziq's count, 22 rebels were killed and another 13 were captured. The U.S. military reported no casualties...
They were particularly interested, Brumagim said, in hearing about her own adventures, which included crawling into a pitch-black cave while bats flew around her head...
...group began to hammer out a strategy for war against the Taliban, Paul Wolfowitz, the 57-year-old Deputy Defense Secretary, took a different tack. An Afghan war in his view had the makings of a quagmire. The larger threat to American security was sitting not in a cave in Afghanistan but in a Baghdad bunker. And so, just four days after Sept. 11, Wolfowitz urged Bush to go to war against Iraq...
...itself not what you’d expect from a musical based on the life of a mutant cave-dweller. It’s a comedy, but it has weight to it as well...