Word: lyricisms
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...pleasantly surprising, then, that Williams' ego doesn't play a larger role in this album. Apart from the occasional knowingly cocky lyric ("Don't hate me 'cos I'm handsome" and his favorite, "Get on your knees"), the songs are on the whole intelligent, perhaps the sign of a maturing artist...
...album, sounds like greased lightning with legs; imagine a guitar equivalent of Blues Traveler harpist John Popper, and you're halfway there. But it's not mere flash; the songs hold up on their own even as they provide showcases for the guitarist's highly evolved style. The lyrics reveal Landreth's deep preoccupation with his Louisiana heritage, and most of the songs revolve around a kind of Cajun mythology, with an occasionally felicitous turn of phrase like "The U.S.S. Zydecoldsmobile"; musically, Landreth filters the zydeco and Crescent City traditions through a more modern roots-rock lens. But the blues...
...they believe that / I love you already / See the stars are shiny and bright / I wish we could go out tonight / Why don't they let us fall in love? / Why don't they let us fall in love? / Yeah yeah yeah yeah..." My reaction to this kind of lyric, in this kind of setting, is what finally convinces me that - like Brian Wilson - "I just wasn't made for these times". I mean, I'm in tears, I'm a grown man and moved to tears by this teeny-bop concoction, this early '60s equivalent of Britney Spears. (Phil...
...Independence. By Tuesday, Hanks has declined; by Saturday, Michael Douglas is a maybe. Smith has also made the rather risky decision to play "Mambo No. 5" - a song about womanizing - in the convention hall to keep up delegates' enthusiasm between speeches. "Obviously we're not using the original lyric," says Smith, who plans to rewrite the song with names of states instead of names of women. For Smith, equal parts entertainer and Democrat, that's the trick: Taking the same old tune, changing the words and hoping that it catches...
...Rolling Stones' "Satisfaction," a perennial chart-topper in lists of this sort, placed second, a testament to the enduring appeal of a monster riff attached to a slurred lyric that manages to be youthful and world-weary at the same time - a three-minute "Catcher in the Rye" for its generation and all those that followed...