Word: equalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Like a lot of Young's other recordings, Sleeps with Angels combines reverie and disillusion in equal measure. A feisty, scruffy throwaway like Piece of Crap, an assault on environmental hypocrisy, shows that Young passed along more than a taste for worn plaid shirts to those upstarts in Seattle. (The current generation of rock musicians considers Young something of a godfather.) The tune has a snarling, implacable drive and guitar work that can make your back fillings vibrate...
...album's centerpiece is a 14 1/2-minute song called Change Your Mind that is equal parts rhapsody and guitar dementia and that describes the full course of a difficult love affair. It's a great Young song, clear of eye, bold of heart, with enough digressions to make it sound like something played live, for the first time, from some ghostly Fillmore stage. There is even a harmony in the chorus that is near Beatlesesque. On its own, this song is a demonstration that Young never has to worry about the depredations of rust. He has performed a classic Young...
...Haydn transformed Yoo completely into conductor, but without a podium or baton. Lin, Yoo and most of the players stood on equal ground as Professor of Mathematics Noam D. Elkies accompanied on harpsichord...
...brand of political humor borders on frightening. Sahl's staying power can be attributed to the fact that he remains neutral on political issues. Perhaps it's to a comic's advantage to have, as he declares, "No Values." Hearing him attack both conservatives and liberals with equal glee, however, sets one on edge. The lack of moral center ultimately distracts. How can he be funny if I can't figure out which angle this joke came from? The same Jewish joke told by a rabbi and by the Grand Wizard of the KKK has different connotations...
...There are so many facets of equity that some may perceive it's equal and some may not," Delaney Smith said...