Word: tunefully
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...moves: a duet with U2's Bono, a song from the hit movie Patriot Games. The group merits a listen. Brennan's soprano keenings, in English and Gaelic, are variously backed by cool, Sergio Mendes-style harmonies, a bluesy sax, and a guitar's banshee wailing. But in the tune Harry's Game, Clannad goes spare and liturgical, transmuting New Age tonal banality into ageless, ethereal beauty. If you ever ascend to heaven, this is the music you'll hear in the elevator...
Time Takes Time occupied a notable team of four top producers (Don Was, Jeff Lynne, Peter Asher and Phil Ramone), 14 songwriters (including Ringo) and such graybeard kibitzers as Brian Wilson (who provides a Morse-code background % vocal of dit dit dit-dits on the Diane Warren tune In a Heart Beat). Somehow it all coheres, perhaps because this musical militia wanted to honor the group that shaped their pop tastes, and to do it with the one Beatle who could take direction from them as he did from Lennon and McCartney...
...Least Beatle, the onstage mascot, the one who didn't write songs or sing well. He was along for the amazing ride three pop geniuses took through the '60s. Early on, his goofy smile and steady beat kept the group grounded. Sometimes the other lads would throw him a tune (With a Little Help from My Friends, Yellow Submarine) that tapped the great good will he shared with his audience. But when John, Paul and George swerved off into drugs, mysticism and more complex music, the drummer lost the rhythm. Hitting the skins wasn't so much fun when...
...another journey into the deep was inspired by Chynna Phillips' painful memories of being sexually molested as a child. (The assailant was not a family member.) Where Are You? picks up where Suzanne Vega's 1987 pop hit about child abuse left off. The gently rocking tune triumphantly attests to the possibility of letting go of hurt and self-blame: "You don't have to look out that window/ Anymore/ You can come back to yourself...
...even more elaborate and satisfying arrangements this time. There are horns aplenty on this album, and a full complement of strings that gives sophistication, for example, to the already much played single You Won't See Me Cry. Another standout is Fueled for Houston, a frolicking, hard-driving rock tune with a brassy edge that evokes the rawness...