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Listening to Automatic for the People, R.E.M.'s ninth album, you get the sense that the band has grown up a lot in the past decade. Since they released Chronic Town in 1982, R.E.M. has tried many different approaches--from the jangle of Murmur to the spook of Fables of the Reconstruction to the electricity of Document and Green...
...replaced with an intimate layered sound--Peter Buck's brooding acoustic strumming, Mike Mills' subdued bass and ex-Led Zeppelin member John Paul Jones' rich string arrangement. Singer Michael Stipe, meanwhile, provides a compelling vocal that aches for carefree youngers years. This is definitely an older Stipe speaking. In Murmur's "Catapult" from 1983, he ponders childhood ("We were little boys/We were little girls...Did we miss anything?"). Now, ten years later, it's early adulthood he recalls ("Hey kids, rock and roll/Nobody tells you where to go") as he laments the passage of time in the chorus ("Maybe...
...sang like Bing Crosby. More important, he looked like Crosby sang: dark, romantic, utterly at ease. Those seductive glissandi and buh-buh-buh-boos made him a housewife's heart murmur and the ideal straight man for a crew-cut ba- ba-baboon, Jerry Lewis -- "the organ grinder and the monkey," they were called. In the early '50s the duo owned movies, TV, nightclubs, stage shows, and the singer had hit records (That's Amore, Memories Are Made of This) on the side. When they split up in 1956, he segued smoothly into leading-man roles. He Rat-Packed...
Amid the acclaim for Guys and Dolls and the rest of this exceptional season can be heard Broadway's perpetual murmur of nervous discontent. The wealth of new shows, a third more than last season, creates a competitive scrabble that may kill off the weakest. The new entries are also putting pressure on holdover shows, like The Will Rogers Follies and The Secret Garden, that need another season to pay back investors. Off-Broadway too has been hard hit, hemorrhaging audiences to the abundance uptown...
...project made the evening of January 28 into an absurd event: as George Bush gave his State of the Union address, a dozen of us sat in my room, eating hearts I took note of the sayings. Amidst bursts of congressional applause, my blockmates would turn to me and murmur in low, sultry voices, LET'S ROCK...