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Unfortunately, on their sophomore CD, The Colour and the Shape (Roswell/ Capitol), Foo Fighters never breaks out of the label "promising," which starts to sound more like a burden than a compliment the second time around. The songs on the new album dwell mainly on how relationships fall apart, a subject that's been dealt with in pop songs ever since pop songs began, and Foo Fighters fails to contribute any new insights. On one song, Up in Arms, Grohl actually sings, "I cannot forget you, girl." It's hard to believe he can offer up a toothless lyric like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: NOT NIRVANA | 6/9/1997 | See Source »

...strict revivalism and the cornier precincts of Dixieland, reinvesting it with swing and individuality and reminding us why this sensual, pleasurable music was once called "hot." What we have here, believe it or not, is 62 minutes of great make-out music. This is intended as a high compliment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: FRESH HEIRS | 6/2/1997 | See Source »

...wreckage of post-Kurt Cobain Nirvana, Foo Fighter's eponymous 1995 debut was muddled but promising, notes TIME's Christopher John Farley: "Unfortunately, on their sophomore CD, Foo Fighters never breaks out of the label 'promising,' which starts to sound more like a burden than a compliment the second time around." The songs on the new album dwell mainly on how relationships fall apart, a subject that?s been dealt with in pop songs ever since pop songs began, and Foo Fighters fails to contribute any new insights. On one song, 'Up in Arms,' David Grohl actually sings, 'I cannot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Weekend Entertainment Guide | 5/30/1997 | See Source »

...Usually the person or group who specializes in that area tries to think about who would best compliment the instructional balance," Thompson says...

Author: By Chana R. Schoenberger, | Title: HERE TODAY......GONE TOMORROW | 4/11/1997 | See Source »

...when. "This is the night of long knives," says a Republican House member. In the pages of the Weekly Standard, the G.O.P. tip sheet, Representative Pete King, a fed-up New York Republican, calls Gingrich "the most powerful liberal in American politics." He doesn't mean that as a compliment. Once loyal House members have spent the winter complaining that the leadership has no strategy, little vision and few principles anymore. Senior members, including some of Gingrich's princes, like Dick Armey and Bill Paxon, have been spotted eyeing the throne and measuring the crown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWT IN THE CROSSHAIRS | 4/7/1997 | See Source »

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