Word: sound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Eban puts it besat himself, "Diplomacy is not theology; there is no salvation in it. The best hope is that tensions can be held short of explosions that some to the slower, unobtrusive currents flowing toward stability will be allowed to take their patent course." Sobering as this may sound, it is the best we can hope...
What was the matter with Quayle? The addition of music was not appropriate. It definitely showed no understanding of Eine Leerstelle, a lack of taste. It ruined my mood. Ba, ba, bop, Ba, ba, bop. The sound was quadrophonic. It got louder, picked up a jazz beat. Oh Quayle, for shame...
...defended the Clean Water Act as "fundamentally a sound piece of legislation." His predecessors had proposed so many changes in the law that environmentalists called their version a "dirty-water bill...
...very good indeed to survive lyrics like "I know I was a crazy fool/ For treating you the way I did/ But something took hold of me/ And I acted like a dustbin lid." There are two collaborations with Michael Jackson, the wonder boy of mainstream soul, that sound peppy only by comparison with the rest of the record, which may be remembered as the album that asked (in Keep Under Cover) the question "What good is butter if you haven't got bread?/ What good is art when it hurts your head?" No headaches here...
Simon, who after all has built bridges over troubled waters, is masterly enough to span that gap. Any record that encompasses doo-wop, Philip Glass and the fragile orchestrations of the French film composer Georges Delerue is bold by any standard. Anyone who writes lyrics that sound like the poet Ted Hughes on sabbatical in the Brill Building rates a very close listen indeed. Simon's musical agility and lyrical literacy may seem suspect to an audience that wants its rock rougher. He irrefutably proves that hard edges run a poor second to deep thought. Hearts and Bones explores...