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Then there is Sister Morphine. Rarely has rock music invoked such an invitation to hell. An electric guitar quivers menacingly, like a poised cobra. Off in the distance somewhere, the piano groans a low, dark, mournful chord. Jagger, sounding like John Lennon baring his soul, speaks from a hospital bed of the mind: "Oh, can't you see I am fadin' fast/ And that this shot will be my last...
...Responsive Chord...
...Your article on compression fractures of the vertebrae, "Snowmobiler's Back" [March 15], struck a responsive chord. For several years now I have been studying the vertebrae of Canadian Eskimo skeletons recovered from archaeological sites, some of these dating back a thousand years. One of the things noted was an extremely high frequency of compression fractures, with 45% of the adults having at least one fractured vertebra. The cause became quickly apparent the first time I rode on an Eskimo sled. The sled, of course, has no springs, and the jarring is transmitted directly to the rider...
...records either dispense with buzz and blast entirely, or else hold it tightly under control. Hendrix's The Cry of Love (Reprise) contains more tenderness and calm than anything he ever did before. Angel, for example, substitutes rich, poignant Beatlesque harmonies for the handful of blunt blues chord changes that used to characterize much of his work. Drifting is a lighter-than-air romantic ballad that could almost be sung by Crooner Johnny Mathis: "Drifting on a sea of forgotten teardrops/On a life-boat/Sailin' for your love/Sailin'home." Big-beat songs like Freedom and Nightbird Flyin...
...only link for many years between the neo-classical Boulanger and the expressionistic Schoenbergian schools of music, he developed a highly individual, tonal style that is at once bitter and lyrical. Buoyed up by his melodies, his unaffected words often strike the sincere and ingenuous chord of a folksong...