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...listening, but many of the tracks sound too identical to artists who preceded the 22 year-old Kweller. “Hospital Bed”’s honky tonk piano sounds like Sgt. Pepper era Beatles and then shifts into a Ben Folds Five-esque piano pounding chorus, while “Down” and “I Need You Back” closely resemble Ryan Adams’ (another Ethan Johns-produced artist) alt-country...
...Take Oklahoma City, the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil before Sept. 11. Did President Bill Clinton take responsibility - let alone apologize for Oklahoma City? No. In fact, he laid the dead at the feet of "loud and angry voices in America today," joining a chorus of liberals in blaming the bombing on the likes of Rush Limbaugh and Newt Gingrich for allegedly encouraging militias...
...shared frustrations often produces a striking common ground. Results are best with a group discussion, kind of like a Sophomore Slump section. A typical session contains several sentences by each sophomore beginning with the phrase “I hate…” and ending with a chorus of the rest...
...song’s happy resignation. It wasn’t the lyrics at all; in the dozens of times I replayed that song each night I never once gave thought to what it was actually about. More immediate to me was its lilting verses and soothing chorus, the mediocrity of Alanis’ voice made perfectly blank by Glen Ballard’s job on the mixing boards. Her voice didn’t seem to communicate anything internal—essentially it was a well-oiled vehicle for the homogenous but undeniably comforting harmonies that make radio rock...
...Jagged Little Pill no longer seems relevant, not only because we’ve all aged but because its verse-chorus-verse, its hooks, were always more important than its “content.” They’re old now. I’ve never understood how lyrics could single-handedly overshadow boring music. The value placed on music’s literary aspect seems to ignore the fact that music, as the Bomb Squad put it, is nothing more than organized noise. If music is powerful because it’s immediate, because it?...