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That said, Room on Fire is fundamentally different from Is This It. Not only has the texture of the songs been modified through the use of synthy guitar lines and down tempo beats, but more importantly, the entire attitude of the album has shifted away from the shy “can’t you see I’m trying” desperation of the debut to a new, unspeakably enviable position of power, greed, and control that Julian can now genuinely exude without feeling presumptuous. “Please don’t slow me down...
Peaches almost redeems herself when she relies more on raw, distorted guitar-fueled rock in “Kick It,” a blistering duet with Iggy Pop, or opener “I Dont Give A” (where Peaches screams profanities over an adaptation of Joan Jett’s “Bad Reputation?...
...first time I really listened to the third Santana album I was struck not only by the pyrotechnic guitar playing—infinitely superior to his current brand of lazy, guest-appearance cheese—but by the fantastic, almost certainly drug-inspired cover of the old vinyl album. The image, of an almost human man conjuring the universe against a dark lunar landscape, fit the music perfectly, or at least complemented it well. I was distinctly disappointed a few years later when I bought my own copy on CD: the cover, shrunk to CD size, looked tacky and painfully...
...sure God won’t mind not being thanked for overseeing the R&B song you download? Might there not be mass industrial action by drum techs and producers? Without liners, would anyone know that the guitarist of A Perfect Circle used to be a Smashing Pumpkins guitar tech? Does anyone care anyway...
...those with the talent to hold your attention or those with the money or body to do so by other means can win this war. We may not know what they’re singing, but at least we’ll know if they can dance or play guitar...