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Anyone who steps into the political arena has to expect a certain amount of ribbing for his policies and bloopers. Dan Quayle will forevermore be known for his potato problems, President Bush has to contend with announcing Pearl Harbor Day on September 7th and Bill Clinton will always be dogged by his bevy of beauties. Politics and peccadilloes are all subject to ridicule, and we all enjoy the spectacle...
...mortality; the difficulties that come with living in the public eye. The album has its share of stinkers -- the accordion-driven Bugs, for example, sounds like something circus clowns might perform before a Greenwich Village poetry slam. But that's one admirably experimental failure on a largely successful album. Pearl Jam's great talent is the ability to meld melody and power: the music is sweet and dangerous. On Corduroy, the album's best song, lead singer Eddie Vedder delivers an impassioned antimedia rant backed up by scathing guitars -- but the melody is pretty and whistleable...
...terrifyingly popular Seattle-based rock group Pearl Jam has released just three full-length albums but has already ripped through all the stages of rock stardom in record time. The group has sung about restless youth (the song Jeremy became a bona fide rock anthem), it has established an adversarial relationship between itself and everyone else on the planet (the band's last album bore the confrontational title Vs.), and, yes, it's made the inevitable pilgrimage to MTV Unplugged. Now what? Having gone from larva to butterfly, does the band flutter to the ground, its brief season done...
...this is not for you/ Never was for you." As it is, the world is already full of too many people who want to keep only with their own kind. Do hipper-than-thou Seattle rock bands now share the sentiment? When a group is as good as Pearl Jam, it's too bad everyone isn't invited to listen...
Frank K. Wong, general manager of China Pearl restaurant in Chinatown, says he advertises in Harvard yearbooks and Commencement booklets...