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...about R.E.M., and I generally agreed with his assessment of the band's last three albums before Accelerate [April 7]. However, I completely disagree with the chart that deems Monster below respectable. Following Automatic for the People, R.E.M. ran the risk of falling into a rut. After two similar-sounding albums, what would its members do next? Their willingness to completely change their sound from mandolins to gutsy electric guitar helped establish R.E.M. as a group not afraid to challenge expectations. It is good to see in their new album that they are willing to do it again. Henry Rosenberg...
...Last fall, he flirted with calling a snap poll to win a new mandate in his own right - a gambit that proved disastrous when he balked at holding elections in the face of an upswing in support for the Conservative opposition. Another well-polished asset, Brown's reputation for sound economic stewardship, has become ever more tarnished as Britain's economy takes hits from the worldwide financial turbulence triggered by the U.S. credit crisis. It's hard to sell high-flown ideas of multilateralism or promote increases in aid to the world's poorest when your own people...
...Beach Boys (“Man-Sized Wreath”) or Neil Young’s Crazy Horse (“Supernatural Superserious”), Mills’ sing-a-long harmonies, present on nearly every track, make the solid songs great and the mediocre songs good.Stipe, too, sounds reinvigorated, the most energetic he’s been since “Automatic for the People.” On standout tracks like “Living Well’s the Best Revenge” and “Mr. Richards,” his delivery calls to mind...
...self-produced, self-recorded, basement-tape rebellion. Their high-water marks, 2003’s “Thickfreakness” and 2004’s “Rubber Factory,” distilled their blues formalism and lo-fi aesthetic into a highly evolved and deeply primal sound. But in fall 2006, singer-guitarist Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney were approached by eccentric producer-auteur Brian Burton (a.k.a. Danger Mouse)—best known for his work in Gnarls Barkley—to collaborate on a project with rock legend Ike Turner on the latter?...
...continued. “Any intelligent man would have let her go right after your father’s funeral. In any case, he didn’t keep her around for her housework.”Frederick’s eyes flared as an inarticulate sound of rage crossed his lips. Quickly, stiffly, he grabbed one of the teacups and made to hurl it towards the terrace. He had done this before, however, and Felicity, anticipating what was to come, clutched his wrist. The two began, simultaneously, to berate each other: insults, oaths, and threats of the most vile...