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...rounding the bases after his wave-it-fair home run in the World Series. Even without these vivid recollections, one fan could recall exactly where he sat in the 1946 World Series or another how he shimmied up the railroad ties backing up against the “Green Monster?? when he didn’t have a nickel...
...monster??s brains are Bejar. Leaving listeners with headscratchers like “The freedom/to be alone with the freedom,” he builds on the dense mythos he’s created on Destroyer records. But somehow he makes abstraction and mystification attractive. Any song named “A Venue Called Rubella” shouldn’t be fun, but the out-of-tune saloon piano makes the ditty a rollicking, midtempo good time and the eponymous refrain catchy...
...that it’s revealed some deep realities about our heroes and especially about that most enigmatic of rock idols, Stephen Joseph Malkmus.Like a resistance leader in Occupied France, Steve seemed to have realized that the only way to survive the fates of his heroes (“Monster??-era R.E.M. comes to mind) and contemporaries (Kurt Cobain’s death must have loomed large at the time) was to put his messages into code.Where the “Crooked Rain” outtakes depicted a songwriter eager to win over the whole world with...
...aging Meat Loaf starts off his newest album, “Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose” with a typically cryptic chorus. “The monster??s loose/this game is win or lose/sometimes you gotta do it/and show the world you want it all,” belts out the ’Loaf, backed by the sound of nü-metal heavy guitars...
...Created in a post-9/11 panic—quick, someone do something!—it took less than a year for the TSA to be branded a “monster?? by the chairman of the House Aviation Subcommittee, John Mica (R-Fla.). But until voters and politicians treat the threat of terrorism rationally, accepting certain risks and recognizing that some preventative measures are too costly, the TSA will neither guard our security nor our liberty...