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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...KISS-108, like all Boston radio stations, is a piece of tripe, All they do is play songs that I actively despise. All I do is listen to CD's and classical music because I'm so revolted by KISS-108. Celine Dion can kiss my grits...
...Bring along a CD to listen to during the lunch bream to calm your nerves. May I suggest "Like a Surgeon," Weird Al Yankovic's parody of Madonna's "Like a Virgin," to motivate...
...high-fashion shops and trendy eateries, there's a House of Blues restaurant/nightclub that's designed to look like a rural, rusted tin shack. Frankly, it looks stupid and out of place. Listening to Pilgrim, one gets the same feeling--there's no room for blues roughness on this CD, and when it appears, it seems forced and false...
Although several of the songs on Pilgrim deal with the death of Clapton's four-year-old son Conor in 1991, the impersonal, generic pop gloss of this album prevents us from really communing with his pain. The confessional My Father's Eyes, the CD's opening number, is so polished and plodding it never comes close to evoking emotion in the listener--unless you consider boredom an emotion. As for the next cut, River of Tears, it has a central metaphorical construction so lazy that one half expects the next track to be titled Needle in a Haystack. Simple...
...quite. Fans of genuine blues guitar would do well to avoid buying Pilgrim--hey, that's what listening stations in record stores are for--and instead pick up a copy of Clapton's superior 1994 album of blues standards, From the Cradle, or, if that's already in their CD collection, blues great Robert Johnson's King of the Delta Blues Singers. Clapton, of course, is more than just a bluesman--from Sunshine of Your Love to Layla to Tears in Heaven, he has displayed a mastery of a variety of musical styles, including hard rock and pure...