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...words struck a chord, nearly a year after the attacks on New York's World Trade Center left me seeking solace in wide open spaces where life could be simple again. My craving for escape found me on the deck of Engel's Marco Polo, a single-masted wooden schooner, for a four-day cruise. It was the middle of the night, and the Marco Polo cruised along at a steady seven knots, the low hum of its engine blending with the soft slap of waves against the hull. Engel watched the dim, forested hills of Sulawesi slip behind...
Proving that Harold Bloom's literary theories apply to rock, the Hives now sound like a sincere misinterpretation of the bands they loved. The blazing three-chord song structures on Veni Vidi Vicious, the Hives' debut American album (released in April), are so imitative--of the Ramones, the Sonics, the Stooges, you name it--that the album would be plagiaristic if not for Pelle's elastic voice, which travels to incredible peaks to rip off Little Richard. Are they better than the classics they imitate? No. But the songs are awfully catchy--and the Hives aren't kidding themselves, either...
...reason that the character Peter Parker (a.k.a. Spider-Man) and many of the other Marvel comic-book heroes strike a chord with my generation is that Parker is a conflicted young man. Our connection to his confusion makes him much more relevant than the do-gooder musclemen that DC Comics and others have produced. That Hollywood could stay so true to Spider-Man's character is admirable indeed. Moviemakers should have opened the comics a long time ago, really read them and listened to comic-book artists and writers. After Spider-Man racks up several hundred million by staying true...
...struck a chord of worry that people already have,” McGrath Lewis says...
...Title TK" is an adroit recreation of the Breeders' early '90s sound, although more atmospheric than the other Breeders albums, as well as slower and more and contemplative. At bottom, the chord progressions, simple guitar lines, and laid-back angularity of the arrangements are still there. But something else is missing, and it's the energy a band tends to give off when it's functioning like a band as opposed to recording artists with back-up musicians. Call it bandness...