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Maddox called the Lost City "serious in its existence, and frivolous in its purpose." He added that it is not necessary to be a "super guitarist," to get involved, and said Lost City hopes to accomodate other non-music activity as well
Credit should also go to guitarist David Mcnair for his clear, ringing guitar playing (reminiscent of Peter Buck's guitar work for REM) and Stipe's prominent, graceful bass lines. Together, with Matthew Sweet's astute drumming, Stipe and Mcnair create a spare but rollicking sound that perfectly compliments the deceivingly playful tone of this...
...first crack at this record may prove a little misleading; the abrasive assault of the music masks the band's clear melodic sense. On repeated listenings, however, the first-takes give the music an urgency and a power that might be lost if the songs became more polished. Guitarist Bob Mould's work here may be a little sloppier than the clean, metallic flurries that he produced on the e.p. Metal Circus (released at the beginning of this year). It's also more frenetic, more expansive, and more impassioned...
...Pretenders absorbed some strong doses of success and a few serious jolts of fate. At times it might have seemed like a tradeoff: two hit singles, Stop Your Sobbing and Brass in Pocket, and one Top Five album, Pretenders; two deaths: James Honeyman-Scott, the lead guitarist, whose body finally gave in to the cumulative destruction wrought by massive infusions of cocaine, and Pete Farndon, whose prolonged bouts with pharmacological excess seemed to accelerate in direct proportion to the band's increasing celebrity. "Because fame and success jumped on us so fast, we all had our own ways...
...through the pomp and pose that had crusted over the British punk movement by 1980. Other bands, similarly adept and not so heavily brushed by fate, disintegrated. The Pretenders, to everyone's astonishment, including their own, turned out to be survivors. There are two new members now: Lead Guitarist Robbie Mclntosh and Bass Player Malcolm Foster. The two veterans, Hynde and Drummer Martin Chambers, have made a separate peace with the past by putting a stake in the future. Hynde has a 15-month-old baby; Chambers' wife is expecting her own in July. Not incidentally, the band...