Word: vocalists
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Although the riff follows the basic disco patterns, the lead vocalist's solo foreshadows early '80s pop and gospel music. "We are Family" carries you into a disco paradiso of warm, mellow lava lamps, hot incense, disco togetherness, and the aura of love...
envy is an unremarkable CD with unremarkable songs. Each tune sounds pretty much like the other and it is difficult to distinguish tracks 2 through 10 from one another. Vocalist Colleen's raspy shrieks are much more powerful live than taped. In concert, you expect to miss a few lines in the guitars' drone, but Colleen's unintelligible all the time...
...better tracks off the Storm Front album, and "Shameless," one of the worst--were similarly uninspired. Not that Joel didn't try. During the latter, he featured his guitar player in a long solo, while he himself sang much of the song in a dramatic duet with his vocalist. But the showmanship which had otherwise served to enhance the music could do nothing to salvage these lacksadaisical performances...
...huge bass line and bottomless saxophones back up Richards and the unidentified female vocalist who sings the high notes. Standing in for the honky-tonk harmonica from the original studio version is a gut-wrenching menace that can barely shriek loudly enough to be audible over the constant pounding of the bass, drums and Richards' amazingly continuous guitar choruses...
This effect is strengthened by other unexpected aspects of the album--such as the Edge's turn as lead vocalist on the first track of the album, "Numb." Its eerie mantra-like lyrics throb hypnotically and, for U2 at any rate, somewhat oddly...