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...stark beauty of their music is offset by the uncompromisingly doomed outlook of their lyrics; like a lover who delicately cuts you and forces you to stay and watch yourself bleed, the Junkies draw you into a wonderful, desperate, lonely world. Their songs so often perfectly describe the physical pain of broken hearts, the lonesome, romantic path down the road of fated love...
Peck opens with a very pretty Gabriel-esque tune, "Lover." He sounds a bit like Pete, and breathes the lyrics with the same sense of urgency Many of the chord progressions and vocal shouts also sound like something from Gabriel's So. But add in some folksy guitar strums molded into a synth line, and the intensity loses out to a studio-induced banal sheen. This recurs on almost all of the tunes, for Peck's voice cannot seem to outsing the acoustic guitar and keyboard arrangements backing him. His voice tends to be too flat, lacking the depth that...
...have a scheduling conflict The Senior Soiree is on the same night as the Freshman Formal. How do my first-year boyfriend and I resolve this? Lover of a Yardling in Lowell...
...Dear Lover...
Where, then, is opera's appeal to a group that undoubtedly profits from the liberation of society It is this underlying sense of morality in opera (upon reflection, Carmen's violent death at the hands of her jilted lover makes her more palatable to society in general?) that so closely ties in with a central theme of Koestenbaum's book; opera's appeal to the "other" of society, to those who deviate from the "norm." As the surrogate voice of those who feared exposure and openness, such as closeted gays, opera liberated them, but also ultimately betrayed them, condemning...