Word: deja
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Inman Square isn't really a place to visit when seeking a wild time, not that a stop here along the way to somewhere else isn't part of a perfect evening. One bonus is the deja vu that so easily comes with a visit to Inman Square; imagine a night of multiple drinks and multiple parties at friends' apartments east of Harvard Square. Suddenly, a soft drink or snack becomes a necessity. It was found somewhere, but the memory fails. Inman is that Brigadoon...
Bacharach supports Costello with mostly excellent arrangements which may leave his fans with a sense of deja vu: the twin flugelhorns, the wispy strings, the fuzzy horns, the retro female background singers. Only when Bacharach stretches his orchestrations into more rock-oriented territory does the music suggest outtakes from the schmaltzy Michael MacDonald recordings from the mid-80s. Few of the songs, though, sound so maudlin, and the melodies themselves stay thoroughly grounded in reality; these pop songs may be old-fashioned, but they sound far from melodramatic or artificial. Heartbreak itself, after all, is awfully old-fashioned...
...into from the choirgirl hotel, unfortunately, similar trends begin to appear in different songs. The bass line found in "Cruel" catches the listener's ear once again in "iieee," giving the album a disappointing aura of deja vu before it is even halfway listened to. "Black Dove (January)," the first of the album's quiet numbers, bears short chorus that immediately brings to mind the song "Past the Mission" from Under the Pink...
...Deja vu, anyone...
...Independence Day and Men in Black, earned a combined $1.375 billion worldwide. Producer Jerry Bruckheimer's macho movies (The Rock, Con Air) do testosterrific at the wickets. So this Dirty Dozen in outer space will get a rousing send-off. If there's a question, it's about instant deja vu. Armageddon will be the second film this year to star Bruce Willis, to deal with an astral collision--and to destroy the Chrysler building...