Word: resting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Never a group to rest on its laurels, Metallica, the only old-school metal outfit that still truly rocks, releases a November album for the third consecutive year with S & M, a live recording of the epic concert they held with the San Francisco Symphony last April. It's a risky experiment, but the double disc, which sprawls over 21 tracks, shows that the gambit paid off. The sheer lyrical power of the orchestra blends seamlessly with Metallica's music to staggering effect, as the booming brass and ghostly strings give songs like "Wherever I May Roam" and "For Whom...
...song can go. Sometimes those peaks and doldrums are even evident on a single song, such as the interminable Yes He Is remix of the huge hit "God is a DJ." Unless you are a hardcore Faithless fan, you should let the variety rest solely on the worthwhile shoulders of Faithless themselves and not on the uneven cast of artists on Saturday 3 AM. B- --JIMMY...
...commentary. Of course, in two or three of these selections, we do get some flashes of the uncompromising clarity of moral vision that is apparent in her best fiction: but these glimpses of Gordimer at her best only serve in this context to accentuate the readers disappointment in the rest of the compilation. In 1959: What is Apartheid?, a transcript of a seminar given in Washington DC, we see the Gordimer who we know and admire. Her prose rings pure and true, like good crystal: simple and clear, but heavy with a kind of unexpected weight. This is the Gordimer...
...Soon after, in the only dominant sing-along moment of the entire concert, the crowd chanted the refrain to "Lazy Boy Dash": "Son, you better get up/You better get up while you can." The crowd certainly did get up for the rest of the set, and the band's final song, the angst-ridden mid-'90s hit "High" which spawned some friendly, energetic shoving. The Paradise was finally rocking...
...Although the band's performances of "Starseed" and "Clumsy" were promising, the rest of the set was predictable and disappointing. The usually moving ballad "4am" inspired as many yawns as it did raised lighters, and the new single "One Man Army" lacked the boisterous rock-and-rant that explodes from the studio version. "Undress your soul/Show them your vigor" crooned Maida with a wincing face and artful cadence, but that vigor looked like it was suffering from some shrinkage