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It’s a hazy memory: there are flashes of a crowded N.J. Transit train, glimmers of a vantage point high above the 20-yard line, and echoes of a brassy fight song. Most vivid are the Eion Hu jokes. Childish stuff, the kind of humor a 10-year old could revel in:“Hu scored that touchdown?”“Yeah.”“No, who was it that scored?”“Hu!”It was a sunny Saturday afternoon at the old Palmer...
...perhaps the most indicative highlight of the evening was when pianist Robert D. Levin ’68 wowed the audience with a celebratory improvisation, in which he assigned specific letters of the alphabet to the keys on the piano and composed a song using only the keys that corresponded with the letters in Faust’s full name...
...testament to this apparent philosophy is the fact that each song adheres to the same tired pop-song formula and never exceeds radio-friendly length. Yet another would be that every single song is an absolute chore to listen to—how could any of them be fun to play...
...band is completely ignorant of their lack of any apparent skill, or they’re merely going through the motions to put the final nail in the coffin of their record contract. Either way, it’s irrelevant. From the sub-par album cover to childish song titles like “Dizzy” and “Firefight,” all the variables of a band on its last legs are in place. 2007 may be the year Jimmy Eat World’s name becomes ironically prophetic; the World is achingly close to eating...
...puffs of black smoke. Though these extras can be distracting, viewers might actually appreciate the music once they get past the initial “Coooool!” The band’s usual hurdy-gurdies, French horns, and mandolins have all been left at home. This song, like the rest of the album, was recorded in a church and the setting seems to have rubbed off on its eerie apocalyptic and religious lyrics. Three years went by between the band’s two discs, and maybe it shouldn’t come as such a surprise that...