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Lead vocalist Mike Patton growls, screeches and roars his way through songs making not-so-subtle commentary on greed, complacency and selfishness. It's easy to laugh at the skewering of a thirtysomething character in the midtempo funk-rocker Midlife Crisis who derives her sense of security from her "pockets jingling" and is wrapped in "morbid self-attention...
Then the Crimson recovered from its funk. It ripped off four straight goals and, once again, this team seemed bound to drink champagne Sunday afternoon...
...Check Your Head they lay down equal parts of spunk, punk and funk to retake some of their old turf while displaying a newfound respect for their musical elders. For the listener, the result is like looking at 30 years of pop music through the bottom of an empty beer bottle. Live at P.J.'s at times evokes a schmaltzy hotel lounge act. Elsewhere, Santana-like Latin percussion and '60s soul grooves join a pastiche of electronically altered vocals and jabbering wah-wah guitars. Songs like Finger Lickin' Good mix live instruments with electronically sampled sounds and fluid tempos -- "switching...
...Mope Rock. On Wish, album No. 12, the band continues to fuse harmonic innovation with New Wave nihilism. Smith allows himself fleeting moments of optimism, and on one song actually uses the word happy. By the time the record closes with End, however, he has slipped back into a funk, realizing that "tired disguised oblivion is everything I do." Well, except for collecting those huge royalty checks...
...phrase "black musical" usually means either a gospel rafter-rattler or a nightclub evening of raunch and funk, typically highlighted by frenzied tap dancers and some enormous female singer with a voice like a howitzer. There have been exceptions that accorded blacks roles of dignity and depth (the richest emotionally, Dreamgirls, ironically was crafted by whites). But the norm is jumping and jiving, as in the new Five Guys Named Moe and the amiable gumbo of jubilant New Orleans sounds The High Rollers...