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...possible that West did really, sincerely, mean to wish his boss well. But I read this well before the months-long riff between West and Summers was made embarrassingly public (embarrassing for whom is another column entirely), and even then I took the quotation to be sarcastic. Why would West take this moment of obvious conflict to wish Summers well? Did West have any responsibility for how readers would perceive the comment? Unfortunately, West, who has recently applied for a medical leave of absence, did not respond to an (unsarcastic) e-mail before press time. The evidence of sarcasm here...
...Anderson-Wilson sophomore effort, 1998's prep-school comedy Rushmore--another funny riff on rivalry and forgiveness--also charmed the critics, but The Royal Tenenbaums, with its all-star cast (including Wilson as a western novelist with a taste for cowboy hats, loafers without socks and hard drugs), is expected to be their most successful movie...
...album’s final track, “Metal Messiah,” shows, however, that Priest still contain the elements for fist-pumping arena action. The most up-tempo song on the album, it blasts open from the outset with a chugging and brutal riff, soon layered with the second guitar ringing out sustained harmonic notes. It quickly stalls into an off-and-on backbeat and then enters a classic Priest chorus, where Ripper wails the kind of cheesy-yet-appealing lyrics that won Priest fanfare in the 80s: “He?...
Other highlights include the power ballad “Close to You,” which just might bring a tear to one’s eye given a few beers beforehand, and “Devil Digger,” which builds a thumping and grinding riff so great that one would find it hard not to at least bob a head to, if not bang. “Cyberface” sounds alarmingly derivative of a Rammstein song, with slow and thick riffing ensconsed in a keyboard melody, which shows that the band is not altogether above nabbing...
...album begins with the brooding and thudding riff of “Gets Me Through,” a song dedicated to Ozzy’s legion of committed fans, to whom he says, “I’m not the anti-Christ or the Iron Man / I try to entertain you the best I can / But I still love the feeling I get from you / I hope you’ll never stop cause / It gets me through...