Word: songe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...same brand of magic as its last album, Fashion Nugget. Things are a little more upbeat this time around. The Sacramento, California-based band's latest work will probably appeal to even more people than just those "The Distance" freaks, who might be disappointed that there is no similar song on the album. Prolonging the Magic doesn't have all of the same ingredients as Cake's previous hits did, but it is not supposed to. Even as Cake evolves, it still delivers a unique sound that has room for everyone...
...greatest hits CD, regardless of how many major hits they've had. Case in point: Snow. We all remember his infectious little ditty "Informer" from back in the early 1990s. A masterpice! We couldn't understand what he was saying, but it didn't matter because the song was just so damn catchy! However, only a few more will remember his follow-up single "Girl I've Been Hurt," which rode on the coattails of "Informer" for a time and then faded into obscurity. Two little known albums and four years later, and all of a sudden The Greatest Hits...
...surprisingly, from one band that has done more than their fair share to warrant a greatest hits CD: U2. Twenty-two years in the making, The Best Of 1980-1990 is a tour de force that briefly touches on U2's humble beginnings before hurtling straight into every song from the 1980s that catapulted them into the pop music stratosphere...
Indeed, the greatest strength of this album is the timelessness of the songs. Older songs such as War's "New Year's Day" and "Sunday Bloody Sunday" still pack as much emotional punch now as they did in 1983. The plaintive melodies and soaring guitar lines which characterized 1987's masterful blockbuster "The Joshua Tree" still sound like nothing else ever committed to tape. "With Or Without You" is heart wrenching in its aching for love, and "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" is as close to capturing tangibly the search for meaning and love...
However, any omissions are excused by the final two tracks. The fragile "All I Want Is You" stretches on for over six minutes, prolonging the anguish set forth by Bono's mournful yet strong vocals and Edge's subtle guitar playing. The song crescendos to a wailing, yearning climax and then fades away gradually. There is silence for a few minutes, and then the brittle piano chords of "October" start. Sparse and lonely, like a barren tree in winter, "October" is U2 at its finest, displaying some of the strongest emotions on the album with the simplest, minimalist music...