Word: singer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first hour of the performance, Elvis sang some of his more obscure songs. In between songs, the singer narrated a slide show which included photos of a naked woman, and the god Bacchus seated upon a tortoise, among others...
What is surprising about All Fools Day is that it does not aspire to Morrison's bluesy work with Them, nor to his famous jazz-inflected tunes on Moondance and Astral Weeks. Rather, lead-singer and principle Saint Chris Bailey produces a near perfect cop of Into The Music, one of Morrison's more recent and unjustifiably over looked disks...
Despite this failing, however,All Fools Day is an album with its heart in the right place. In a year when Bono Vox is being hailed as the great Irish singer, it is nice to hear from a party like Bailey who realizes what great soulful vocals are, even if he can't always muster them up himself. Sometimes, good rock music is simply a matter of choosing your heroes well...
...Face In the Crowd" and "Playing With Fire" are Lisa Lisa's tough turns on vocals. In the former, replete with some nasty conversational repartee in the vein of Jackson's "What Have You Done For Me Lately," Lisa Lisa plays a fan attracted to a male singer. The latter, the album's best and most aggressive track, is heavily layered with keyboards and Spanador's (of the Cult Jam) vibrant guitar solo. "I'm not your everyday average woman," Lisa Lisa sings. She tells us she will not be the victim of any relationship, because when you mess with...
...Ahead" and "Over Theirs" does the band achieve any sort of success. The former is a shuffling, sequencer-laden dance tune, built around a piercing guitar riff. Though highly unoriginal, it's the record's only memorable tune. "Over Theirs" is a dirge-like ode to obscurity, in which singer Newman chortles about boundaries just out of sight, backed by a melodic guitar line and atmospheric keyboards. Although the band's art-school derision makes you cringe, the song achieves a sort of synthetic beauty despite itself...