Word: songe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...THAT'S MY WEDDING SONG...
Sometimes--like, say, after you've heard that horrifically Day-Glo song Barbie Girl for the 1,651st time on the radio--you just want to hear an old-fashioned song song. The kind where the singer actually sings, the melody actually has a melody, and the whole thing builds gradually, powerfully, inevitably, and crests with a big golden payoff note. Three new albums would seem to be aimed at that need: Canadian chanteuse Celine Dion's Let's Talk About Love (550 Music), vocal power lifter Michael Bolton's All That Matters (Columbia) and Barbra Streisand's Higher Ground...
That's another thing--the lyrics. Perry's words were never clear, yet always had a searing impact. Nobody may actually know exactly what "Mountain Song" is about, but it sure grabbed you where you felt it. The last song, "City," is a perfect example of Perry's songwriting techniques. The liner notes say that Perkins and Avery were given wrong directions, and never made it to the studio, which left just Dave and Perry to complete the song. Over a throw-away guitar accompaniment, Perry sings lyrics that embody the underbelly of city life. "There's a garbage...
...hards, the choice is no choice. Get it now. For the rest, if you've always wondered what Jane's Addiction was about, look no further. One more note about "Mountain Song"--the version included on the album is the first demo that the group ever recorded, and which they sent to Triple X Records, in hopes of landing a record contract (which they promptly did). There is a breathtaking distance between that early, embryonic indicator of Jane's future brilliance, and the new songs recorded for this album 10 years later. It'll be interesting to see where they...
...couple of the songs stretch all possible limits on credibility, such as the opening "There's a Rumor in St. Petersburg." Here, the peasants belt into a song that carries the dubious refrain "Since the revolution, our lives have been so gray." The staging itself doesn't have any delusions about its purpose: hundreds of Russian peasants drop their work, disperse from their bread line and take up synchronized folk dancing in one of the more laughable spectacles of the film. Yet Anastasia--unlike Pocahontas, for example--makes no pretense about adhering to history, and we accept...