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...Seattle's Sub Pop Records was founded in 1986 to capture the musical moment, market it and move on to the next moment. Sub Pop co-founders Jonathan Poneman and Bruce Pavitt envisioned their small record company as a kind of Motown of the Pacific Northwest. "The problem with the music industry in the '80s was that the major labels had their doors shut to new ideas," says Pavitt, who used to work for Muzak, the elevator-music company...
...disturbing news for her son: "While you were sitting home alone at age thirteen/ Your real daddy was dying." The emotions in Alive were torn from Vedder's own life. Vedder was born in Chicago, the oldest of four children. The first records he can remember enjoying were Motown records, songs by the young Michael Jackson. Neil Young came next, and the Who's album Quadrophenia. He identified with its portrayal of adolescent trauma. Vedder never knew his real father. He was raised by a man who he thought was his father and with whom he often clashed...
...more serious and believable. There are also a few shallower, shamelessly fun moments, but they don’t overwhelm the album as they did on “St. Elsewhere.” “Blind Mary” is a catchy lo-fi Motown ballad, complete with handclaps and heart-on-sleeve lyrics. Lead single “Run (I’m A Natural Disaster)” features short bursts of horns and children screaming, while Cee-Lo warns, “Run away / Run for your life!” Unfortunately, the song?...
...afro immediately signal that she has a lot to sing about. In album opener “Amerykahn Promise,” a robotic voice instructs passengers to leave their valuables at home. It declares, “We love to suck you dry,” while a Motown female troupe relays that this is, in fact, the “Amerykahn promise.” Badu here establishes the unsettling tone that continues throughout. She simultaneously evokes and subverts President Lyndon B. Johnson’s 1965 speech “The American Promise...
...compositions, and their wide catalog of cover songs ranges from punk to funk. “We Have You Surrounded” finds the Dirtbombs combining all their musical strengths onto one disc. Soulful second track “Ever Lovin’ Man,” with its Motown-esque background vocals, harkens back to their widely-praised 2001 covers album, “Ultraglide In Black.” Elsewhere, the gritty “I Hear The Sirens” adopts the party-pop ethos of 2003’s “Dangerous Magical Noise...