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...suffers mostly due to its concept—something this ambitious needs to be pulled off in such a way as will better characterize the eras so openly and audaciously tapped for each song. Additionally, after the concept fails, the album wants for a totally blow-away single, which a band as low-key as Lemon Jelly seem unwilling to put forward...
...Concept and intellectualism can be great, but they don’t directly correlate with quality, and for what it’s worth, they’re a pretty recent addition to what rock and roll was originally all about...
...concept of involving the audience in a performance is certainly engaging, though the excitement of the four-year-old in the front row testified to the fact that the piece might have been better received (and performed) in an elementary school music class. The acoustic result was initially interesting, but once the novelty wore off, simply chaotic...
...also a Woody Allen movie, a Nicole Kidman movie and Virgin, which he co-wrote. And he has been cast as the lead in a film version of Get Smart, despite the fact that the spy-spoof remake doesn't have a director, a script or even a concept. "Plus, I might have been in Racing Stripes," he says. "I don't even know...
There’s just something about the movies that keeps us coming and manages to hold our attention, even as the same product is churned out every year. The endless sequels, remakes, and concept plots hold our gazes and we have no idea why. Of course, there’s the familiarity of the experience—the specific experience of certain characters, genres, situations, etc.—that is so often referenced as the answer to Hollywood’s continued success in doing the same old crap...