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Beck has produced a few face-paint moments of his own over the years, and they have mostly come when he has toyed with acoustic material. Mutations, the album most similar to Sea Change, has several songs that sound exotic, clever and conspicuously weird, as if Beck were doing an emotional experiment rather than summoning actual feelings. ("Puritans stare, their souls are fluorescent/The skin of a robot vibrates with pleasure" went one particularly opaque Mutations lyric.) But Sea Change feels distilled from real tears, and the sonic intensity is helped in part by Beck's physical maturation. His singing voice...
Rest assured, ABSK, that the irony has not escaped us. Unlike the Altoids mint, a throw-away product of the twentieth century, Bible studies have, for better or worse, long been the “original celebrated” pastime of Western culture. But the ad’s clever premise is potentially jeopardized by its deeper implications: Are we to assume that Bible Studies, too, may be commodified for our consumption? Does the ad’s success rely, at least in part, on its prominent display during “shopping period”? This ad may have...
Dalias' first clever move was to enlist a champion with a gold-plated international Rolodex: Michael Feinstein, a senior principal at Atlas Venture in Boston. Before becoming a venture capitalist, Feinstein had been vice president of marketing in charge of global sales at New Oak Communications, a maker of Internet security devices that is now part of Nortel Networks. Through his contacts, Feinstein was able to entice the business-development director of NetOne to visit WaveSmith at its Acton, Mass., headquarters for a demonstration of its new multiservice switch. The product, which transmits data, voice and video in a carrier...
...Starting to Hurt, Hallelujah and Nuclear--that groove and grieve with natural ease. Adams is also known for affecting a world-weariness beyond his years, and Demolition has plenty of posing. Cry on Demand and She Wants to Play Hearts feel empty next to the good stuff, like a clever boy's writing exercises rather than actual feelings. Take the bad with the good and pray Adams gets over himself. --By Josh Tyrangiel
...working in a short biographical format. Subjects run wildly from the man in the Godzilla suit to ethnobotonist Richard Evans Schultes to a stock-car-racing monkey named Jocko. Not only fun but educational - I was pleased to learn the origin of the Jacuzzi and the Leslie speaker - this clever theme limits the self-indulgence of the works and virtually forces creators to write linear narratives. You end up with such oddball delights as Nicky B.'s juvenile, hip-hop version of the old chestnut Davey Crocket story ("My hunting skills are badass!") Reading "SPX 2002," is like listening...