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...Reissue, repackage, repackage.” So sang Morrissey on the greatest-hits-mocking “Paint a Vulgar Picture” from The Smiths?? fourth and final studio album, “Strangeways, Here We Come.” Despite these righteous words, the band—who split in 1987—are now releasing their eighth compilation album, “The Sound of the Smiths.” The two disc release includes every one of the classics that have already been included on their myriad greatest hits collections, but it also throws...
...plot proceeds with forced motivation. Disgruntled teens in a dirty pick-up truck follow Walter Smith (Kevin Pollak) and his family home, eyeing the family’s shining Escalade. Their attempt to steal the car from the Smiths?? remote mansion is complicated by the involvement of the two Smith children, Tommy (Jimmy Bennet) and Jennifer (Michelle Horn), as well as their father (Pollak). The delinquent teens ineptly spiral the event into a full-blown hostage situation...
Many of Dartboard’s peers were not so lucky. For every “Herder” and “Cox” in the country, there seem to be an increasing number of “Hepler-Smiths?? and “Gould-Wartofskys.” In the interest of gender equality, married Americans seem to have developed a penchant for verbosity in surnames. It seems like a harmless trend, but these crunched-together monstrosities are calamities in waiting for the next generation...
...refrain over Morgan Geist’s “Lullaby,” might be directed at purists, but here and elsewhere the outcome is better than the original. When he sings along to The Rapture, he does so unobtrusively, and demonstrates good use of quotation: The Smiths?? lyrics to “There Is A Light That Never Goes Out” get reignited by way of Royksopp’s hypnotic “Poor Leno.” Like his collaborative electronic album from last year, Unrest, this record isn’t perfect...
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