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...when the band suddenly throws a damn hard rock song (“The Story of Jazz”) and a miscalculated cover of Sun Ra’s “Nuclear War” in the mix, the gentle giant of a compilation loses its way. Fortunately, this decline does not occur until the second disc’s final tracks, and this uncharacteristic sloppiness is redeemed by the lyrical ease of album closer “By the Time It Gets Dark...
...human…after all.” Then the same eight measures repeat for the rest of the song and the Vocoder becomes maddeningly annoying. By the time the song ends at just shy of five-and-a-half minutes you’ll be damn glad it’s over...
...fans: Come on. Most of you aren’t going anyway. This lets you save face. Why aren’t you going to the game? Because I was so damn rowdy the last time out they won’t let me back into the stadium. Wow, you sound like a really hardcore fan, even though you don’t even know what Allston looks like...
...every damn time I finish listening to the song, I experience the same horrifying prophecy. I see it becoming the opening-credits music for some Disney Channel Original Movie about a skinny (but surprisingly buxom) white 12-year-old and her meaningless problems at Palo Alto Junior High. “Sweet lord,” I think to myself, “this…this isn’t ‘original!’ This isn’t ‘challenging!’ It’s glossy! It’s mass...
Ruminating over his life and career several years ago, long before he had AIDS, Hudson sounded a little world weary. "I spent so much time trying to figure out what life was all about," he said. "I still don't know. But now I don't give a damn." Perhaps he does nonetheless. His announcement last week may have been the best and most dramatic gesture in his long career. --By Gerald Clarke. Reported by Elaine Dutka/New York and Barbara Kraft/Los Angeles