Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Thousands of students were gathered in the park, listening to rock bands and chomping on fried dough. At first I was hesitant to join them, thinking that I would be out of place in this type of environment. They looked like the poster children for body-piercing parlors, and I looked like I had just stepped out of a J. Crew catalogue...
Whereas the songs on Tuesday Night Music Club could only be called "folksy pop" and those on Sheryl Crow "rock," there is no simple label for the diverse sounds of Sessions. Crow tries out a country, bluegrass style on a few songs, a rocking, bass-heavy sound on others, and experiments on some tracks with new instruments such as the harmonica and violin...
...Members Only" is the best track on the CD, maybe because it goes back to what Crow does best: fun lyrics incorporated into a driving, though not overly heavy, rock melody. "All the rich kids shake their asses, looking for the two and four," she sings. We like it when Crow pokes fun at society, in this case dancing rich kids who can't quite find the beat, which makes her music as much about lyrical content and storytelling as it is about sound and instrumentation. Even though Sessions includes a nice melange of styles, it could use more songs...
...things I foundparticularly funny about Et Tu, Babe[Leyner's second book], was that it was about awriter who attracts the same kind of celebrity asan actor or rock star...
...This Desire? never specifies the exact destination for which Harvey was reaching. The ride, though, is thrilling and fascinating, her riddles more powerful for remaining in code. Like Madonna's Ray of Light, which illuminated much but kept some spaces sacred, Harvey's album uses rock at its most modern and electronic to reveal--almost--an artist more fully and humanly herself than we have previously seen her. Even we who have loved all her incarnations will take pleasure and interest in what Polly Jean lays out for us here. God bless her--she tears our hearts out every time...