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...suck.” I wholly disagree. I find it hard to believe that “in the past several years, popular music has taken a severe turn for the worse.” What about the smooth and sultry voice of eight-time Grammy Award winner Norah Jones effortlessly gliding from note to note, phrase to phrase, and breath to breath in her monumental “Come Away with Me?” What about the inspirational post-September 11th rock anthems of “The Rising” by three-time Grammy Award winner Bruce...
...chalk-wielding vandals’ commitment to free speech is even more suspect. As Los Angeles Times columnist Norah Vincent notes, the same students chalking their campuses with tasteless drawings and slogans also push for speech codes and steal conservative campus publications from the newsstands. Vincent aptly describes students who defend smut like the snow penis and then shift the debate from decency to free speech rights: “self-entitled, sophomoric pranksters falling back on high principles when it suits them.” Student “artists” of the snow-phallus variety have hijacked...
Berkeley’s voice resembles Nick Drake, while Weinstein’s voice is scratchier and reminiscent of Tom Waits. Whereas Berkeley’s richly textured songs throw together mandolin and cello, Weinstein takes more influences from jazz; Norah Jones even sings a track on his first album. Both say they got lyrical inspiration from the people they met and the classes they took at Harvard...
You’ve probably heard by now of John Mayer and Jack Johnson, the acoustic balladeers whose quiet, melancholy songs have taken off in the past year. They’re represented by lesser-known but still enchanting songs. But the highlight of the album is the crooner Norah Jones, with ‘Don’t Know Why’. It’s one of those perfect pop songs—catchy yet with a distinct character of relaxed jazz and perfectly composed...
...album. It feels more like a college student’s mix CD, which is fine, but the flow of the tracks could have been tighter. You may well have most of these songs on MP3. But if you haven’t heard of Phantom Planet, Norah Jones, or The Music, or in fact any of the other bands on this album, it’s definitely worth a listen. MTV has ‘handpicked’ some classic songs from bands that know how to write music...