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...wonderful it was to be back in "God's own country," he said. The people of the "Coast" lapped it up; this line wasn't crafted by a spin doctor or slipped in by a local party hack. He knew the region, its history and its issues, because his Nanna and Pop retired to the region and he'd spent many school holidays with them. At his first "new politics" outing as leader, he listened with Clintonian empathy for two hours as people spoke about the issues they wanted Latham to take back to Canberra...
Frontman Robert Nanna has a strong and plaintive, if somewhat unremarkable voice. The lyrics are mostly indistinct—which is not a huge loss to humanity—and wander mostly over onto the wrong side of the personal self-revelatory/Dadaist random incoherency divide. Nothing resembles a narrative, and characters underpin most of the songs. A fairly random sampling, from “Our Weekend Starts on Wednesday” yields: “Out of the darkness / Sings a signal to our sleep / APB for every dream / Dead within the week / Hooray...
...Beck" is a magic word. Beck, beck bananna-nanna pho pheck; Beck. The Pied Piper of post-grunge white boys everywhere, Beck Hansen leads us away from the dying city of Rock playing a tune of satire and pastiche. On Midnite Vultures, he eviscerates hip-hop, R&B and even Kraftwerk of their souls, piling the resultant carrion into a tower of intoxicating formal juxtaposition, and finally infuses these styles with his own pink-pants voice. Who would need anything more...