Word: soul
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...alright!" The two remaining Hendrix compositions, "Power to Love" and "Message of Love" are more intriguing. These two tracks offer a sense of agonized and feverish optimism that is a couterpart to the first side's confusion and depression. Interspersed between naive lines like, "With the power of soul, anything is possible," Hendrix' sincere guitar seems to be screaming, "Believe! Believe!" One line from "Power to Love" seems to summarize the sense of blissful stoned-ness coupled with agonized consciousness that characterized Hendrix' artistic quest. After some psychedelic nonsense about a jellyfish, Hendrix suddenly shines with one of his frequent...
Demons succeeds most impressively, and fails most abysmally, for one reason: the acting. Will LeBow, as the demon Murray (a former comic who sold his soul for the chance to headline in a Catskills hotel), is hysterical. Strutting across the stage with an obnoxious yellow suit and a mouth you wouldn't want to take home to Mother, Murray, "a demon with heart palpitations," is cheesiness at its best. LeBow manages to perfectly capture the air and nature of the typical Kutscher's comic. Brustein's script walks an extremely fine line between the deliciously kitchy and the horribly cliched...
...richness of Lennox's voice is also on display in her rendition of "Downtown Lights." The singer shows her amazing vocal range in her blue-eyed soul version of the Al Green classic "Take Me to the River." On another Motown classic, "Can't Get Next to You," she brings in a Spanish guitar to interesting effect. Ultimately, though, it is Lennox's voice that remains the album's most vital instrument...
...expertly. She completely recreates the song without losing sight of the original spare, beautiful Marley melody. Lennox's funky bass-driven version of "Train In Vain" also shows her gift for creative interpretation. She remains faithful to the original Clash tune, even as she adds her own brand of soul to the ultimate anthem of white-boy angst. When she sings, "All my dreams come tumblin' down," you believe...
Tank Girl is Rebecca Buck, a cocky 23 year old with a head of platinum chaos and a soul of pure spitfire. The bad guys have the water and she doesn't think that's fair. It's never clear why Rebecca cares so much about water, bathing doesn't seem to be a big concern for her, and beer is her beverage of choice, but never-the-less she becomes entangled in a dutiful battle with...