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Call them the ever-shrinking group. In their earliest days the B-52S were a quintet riding the new-wave crest, but the death of guitarist Ricky Wilson and the recent resignation of vocalist Cindy Wilson have dwindled the group to a trio. Still, as their seventh album, Good Stuff, demonstrates, their talent has by no means diminished. What were once "rapid-fire three-way vocals," as singer Kate Pierson calls them, are now back-and-forth dialogues between Pierson and Fred Schneider. Familiar motifs abound: hot pants, UFOs and mother earth. The music on the album is just...
Contrary to popular belief, we are here in Boston to establish a personal relationship with two or three thousand people ... Not to give a rock concert." Vocalist Ed Kowalczyk says this as he stares into the middle distance of harsh stage lights and the shadows of several thousand tightly packed kids. He doesn't have to pretend to relate. At the age of 20, he's one of them...
Margot Timmins, the band's the lead vocalist, was undoubtedly the center of the show, perhaps more for her quirky, spacy--but sexy--personality than for her singing. As the night moved on, she gradually relaxed her shy demeanor, spontaneously telling quaint stories from life on the road the over the tea she poured herself between songs...
...True," the female vocalist, Barb Morrison, joins Dito. Instead of constant noise, more ethereal moments alternate with heaviness--offering the listener a much needed respite. One wonders, however, whether the band repeats the line "Is it something that I can change" 10 or so times at the song's end because 1) it says so much about existential angst that it merits repetition of 2) because they sought to fill time. (I chose...
...British group, comprised of guitarist/songwriter Roland Orzabal and vocalist Curt Smith, was founded in the early 1980s when the musicians decided that the solutions to a lot of the problems in the world, including their own, could be corrected effectively with access to Primal Therapy. Calculating that such access would come to them only if they become rich and famous (and could thus afford it) the two men formed their band...