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...been flowers in the Yard historically.” Since van Valkenburgh had done a lot of work in Princeton and some in Yale, I asked him about the other Ivies. “There are of course other schools in the Ivies that have a tradition of more flowers??. I’m not a campus historian, but there seems to be a very different idea of a campus at Princeton than at Harvard…Harvard has a more interior orientation, a monastic quality, whereas there seems to be an interlocking fluidity about Princeton...
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What makes Flowers?? grandiose statements particularly unpalatable is the band’s unwavering mediocrity. They quote their influences—80s commercial New Wave on their debut “Hot Fuss,” and now, on “Sam’s Town,” Bruce Springsteen—verbatim, adding nothing new. They steal without contrition, and, what’s worse, without irony...
Evidence of a profound social commitment on “Sam’s Town” is scant, but who needs musical populism a la Guthrie when your latest disc is, in Flowers?? words to MTV, “one of the best albums in 20 years.” In declaring his deep debt to Bruce, and in writing an overwrought album of trendy arena indie titled after a Vegas casino, Flowers wins a place in a long line of observers to misunderstand the goals of “Heartland Rock...
...Despite Flowers?? showboating, I think it’s safe to say that people will be humming “This Land is Your Land” and “Born in the U.S.A.” long after Killers songs like “Bling (Confessions of a King)” are reduced to iTunes Music Store bargain bins. Whether they understand the intent behind the music is another story...