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...anyone seeking an excursion into early "classical jazz", this disc may merit a side trip. Chailly's direction is faultless but for a few absences of "oomph." However, concentrated study may best be confined to those who felt the influences most at home--Copland, Gould and, later, Bernstein make excellent examples...
...this great song (Chazz to his girlfriend: "I wrote it for you." Girlfriend to Chazz: "You wrote it before you met me." Ugh. And guess what? That joke's also recycled about 50 times). But nobody, including record executives and Chazz's girlfriend, believes that the song has any merit. So the Lone Rangers set out to prove it to the world in the best way they know how--by taking over a radio station and holding a few annoying music jocks hostage. With water guns...
...Sweethearts Together" plays just as trite as it sounds and doesn't merit much mention. "Suck on the Jugular," however, could be the joint project with Parliament-Funkadelic that never was. The song showcases underwater organ sounds and semi-soulful background vocals (Ivan Neville has a hand in both). These elements bear more than a passing resemblance to those employed by Primal Scream--with George Clinton of P-Funk fame--in "Funky Jam" on their latest album, "Give Out But Don't Give...
...have brought the issue of domestic violence to the fore," they piously pontificate. As if that we the motivation; a string of women who had restraining orders against ex-husbands were killed over the last year in Boston. Did that merit any televised specials? Tens of thousands of Americans are murdered annually. Some of them did useful things with their lives. None of them have been eulogized like Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman--the one a promiscuous tippler who puttered around in Ferraris without having contributed anything significant to society, whose lifetime occupation was that of silicon-impregnated consort...
...have said all along that our constructionpolicy is to build on a merit basis, [taking] thelowest responsible bid," Mullin said...