Word: morrison
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Static and Silence may not place The Sundays above comparison, but the album succeeds in changing the basis of that comparison. In fact, many critics are now comparing The Sundays to Van Morrison, who came out of presumed retirement time and time again with finely-crafted mystical masterpieces. Gavurin has remarked that the five-year hiatus, in combination with the opportunity to work out of their own homes, enabled The Sundays to experiment within their genre; he also feels that the Van Morrison comparison is accurate, because the product was well worth the wait...
Even the Sundays' lyrics seem to support the two halves of this proposition: one of the lines from "Folk Song" ("it stoned me to my soul") is a near-replication of a Van Morrison lyric. In addition, "I Can't Wait" alludes to the necessity of a creative vacation in order to produce a better recording in the end: "when there's more in your head than you find in your life/calls for a change...
...atmosphere is reason enough to make the trip to 131 Clarendon (next to Copley Place and the Back Bay T-stop on the Orange Line). This self-proclaimed "Massachusetts Institute of Rock" has walls covered with rock paraphernalia, including photos, costumes, instruments and even sketches from Jim Morrison's high school notebooks...
...like the old days," laments Rand Morrison, senior broadcast producer on Public Eye and a 48 Hours veteran. "Now everyone's been on TV. It's not a lure. You'll call someone, and they'll say, 'You're the fifth person who's called me.' There's an astonishing level of sophistication too. People are in on the mechanism. They're like, 'Are you picking me up [for the show in a limo]?'" Winning a guest, adds senior editorial producer Nancy Duffy, "ultimately boils down to that person's sense of nostalgia, who they've watched...
...Morrison were alive today, would you make an MTV video...