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...follow-up songs--"Downeaster Alexis," one of the better tracks off the Storm Front album, and "Shameless," one of the worst--were similarly uninspired. Not that Joel didn't try. During the latter, he featured his guitar player in a long solo, while he himself sang much of the song in a dramatic duet with his vocalist. But the showmanship which had otherwise served to enhance the music could do nothing to salvage these lacksadaisical performances...
Joel did eventually come back as if recharged by the music itself and took the audience up to new heights. The latter half of the show featured Joel at his classic best. In an amazingly heartfelt "Goodnight Saigon," Joel recaptured his previous energy. (And when, due to a technical glitch, Joel's piano failed to rise from the pit onto the stage, he simply jumped down and played from below...
...doing this internship in the first place? Was I trying to get some practical experience in public service, which might someday be my life's work? Or was I only doing this for a potential employer? If the latter, I'm a complete heel; if the former, I'm due for some serious attitude adjustment...
These dual meanings bespeak the two perspectives from which Israel and its backers regard the recent entente. There is one essential difference between the accord's Labor sponsors and its Likud opponents: The latter fail to recognize that the uneasy standoff in the Middle East, though it has proven durable, has an essentially temporary character...
...tracks produced by Litt -- All Apologies and Heart-Shaped Box -- have an immediate, radio-friendly tang. The latter song is the album's most accessible, powering along at moderate rock speed and conjuring images of emotional entrapment: "I've been locked inside your heart-shaped box for a week . . . I was drawn into your magnet tar pit trap." In contrast, many of the Albini pieces sound ravaged, almost ruined; but as with buried treasures, there are rewards for persistence and exploration. If you listen repeatedly to such sonically explosive songs as Serve the Servants and Pennyroyal Tea, the structure...