Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this lack of originality is the best think about it. Someone once said that composing is nothing more than remembering a tune nobody else has ever thought of. If that's true, Erasure has done a brilliant service to the world by remembering these sublimely silly songs. (I don't know anything about ABBA; they were before my time--the name occupies as murky space in my cultural memory, associated through Scandinavian-ness with the Wassa Bread my anorexic babysitter used...
...black religious leaders. Baptist churches, Speech complains, "don't do a damn thing to try to nurture,/ Brothers and sisters in the revolution./ Baptist teachers dying is the only solution./ Passiveness causes others to pass us by." The group goes further on Give a Man a Fish, a tune whose chorus rings with down-home gospel fervor. "Brothers wit their A.K.s and their 9-mms," Speech raps, "Need to learn how to correctly shoot them./ Save those rounds for a revolution./ Poor whites and blacks, bumrushing the system." Whether literally calling for violence or using a metaphor to express...
...There's hardly anything I like about Bush," Parker says, calling Clinton "more in tune with average Americans...
...headline at the Grand Ol' Opry. Most of the other tracks are just folkish filler. The only entertaining thing about the aimless, boring "We Hate it When Our Friends Succeed" is the title. It's mystery how he's managed to eke a hit out of the meager, colorless tune...
Only a few moments hint at Morrisey's former greatness. "The National Front Disco" is a vaguely catchy tune about a small-town teen lost in the wilds of the nightclub scene, and Morrissey delivers the tale with relish. He also proves he's still capable of knocking off a diverting lyric with "You're the One for Me, Fatty." In this song he beseeches his obese sweetheart to "say if I'm ever in your way..a-hey,-a HAAAAY." He really wallows in the line, and the song offers hope that his old languid wail...