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...piece in my repertoire to sound sad. Well, that, and the chords are too hard. I settle on one of my favorite Sinatra songs, Rodgers and Hart's The Lady Is a Tramp. It's lighthearted, recognizable and such a crowd pleaser that I may have to master another tune because that one calls for encores! Plus, I agree with the lyrics: much of California is cold and damp...
...which feature haunting melodies and lyrics that invite the listener to walk under the night sky. As might be expected from someone who began her career on the Boston-Cambridge open-mike circuit, Williams also uses her voice for protest as well as for emotional expression, as in the tune "I Had No Right," which tells the story of '60s anti-war radicals Daniel and Philip Berrigan. But perhaps the overriding theme on this album is one of renewal. In "Spring Street" Williams confides her battle with uptown pretensions and affirms that she'll push [herself] up through the dirt...
...clone, is not particularly striking in its musical originality. Peter Frampton was experimenting with electronic voice manipulation when my parents were still in college, the synthesized matrix in the album's title track resembles devices Bjork has been employing since Post, "Optimistic" could easily be mistaken for an R.E.M. tune and "Morning Bell" sounds like a track cut from Portishead's Dummy...
...washed over a simple background of a solo piano. It moves on quickly to Euro-sounding dance tracks such as "How Far" and the samba-tinged "Taking Off For France." The album does take a recess from beat-heavy percussion and veers towards further flirtation with retro-lounge electronic tunes, with Cracknell voicing her lyrics breathily in a manner not unlike Dusty Springfield. But the closing track, "Anymore," ends the album with more bleeps and heavy backbeats. While it's the strongest track in the album, it still fails to hold one's attention as anything but a mere...
Their spin doctors, their surrogates, even their wives - they had everybody expecting a shootout. Instead, anyone who took the time to tune in Thursday night to the traditionally superfluous vice-presidential debate got to see a pair of confident, articulate, serious and dignified number-two men have a gentlemanly discussion - and gentlemen's disagreements - about the right direction for America and the current state of the world...