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...fears going in was, 'This is a live album; we can't use studio trickery!'" says Thompson. "But in the end, the songs with mistakes and flaws were the ones that touched us the most, and those are the ones we ended up using." The rough edges give this CD a fresh, honest feel...
...Perhaps the collection's only prominent failure resides in not capturing the band's raw performing power. Still, this is an essential for the Led Zeppelin novice--although if you've already got the boxed set, don't bother. The CD-ROM video of a "Communication Breakdown" performance is a nice touch, but not worth the price of admission. It deserves an A, but only if you haven't got the other albums already...
...time, it's easy to be overwhelmed by its crackling originality. The album's main fault is that such a hectic blend of music eventually sounds a little thin and is more exciting as an artistic maneuver on Beck's part than as a long-term fixture in a CD-changer. It's the most straightforward (and final) track, in fact, that will probably become Midnite Vulture's best-remembered track. "Debra" is a funk-love send-up; its proto-cheesy sound is so robust that all irony melts away. It's got joy, like the joy Beck had when...
...resident at Axis, one of the most popular clubs in Boston, and his Friday night set, Spin Cycle, is broadcast weekly live on WFNX and on-line. Word of his prowess with vinyl has also extended well beyond Boston, and his track "Supa Crush" features on the recently released CD "Torchbearers: A Compilation of 11 Club Culture Vanguards...
...long ago, all you had to do was buy the largest TV you could afford, connect stereo speakers, plug in a VCR and voila--you had bragging rights to state-of-the-art home entertainment. Now there's DVD, Dolby Digital, high-definition TV, personal TV, rewritable CD--all dazzling technologies, to be sure, but disorienting too. HDTV, a digital format so luscious it can make an enthusiast weep, was the year's biggest tease, delayed by technical complications and industry infighting. Yet some experts are optimistic, saying it will really show its colors in 2000--at least in major...