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...coming out of the MTV studios. These 14 songs hold up well in an acoustic format, and it's nice to get some of the intimacy that comes from a live recording, especially with Natalie Merchant. Her attraction has always been the ethereal realness she emanates, not her vocal range, and this sense of closeness is only amplified in this setting...
...with NAFTA is that, like almost any change, it will disrupt the lives of some Canadian workers, some American workers and some Mexican workers. They are a tiny minority, but anyone who thinks he or she might wind up in that tiny minority is understandably fearful and upset. And vocal. Compounding this, there are those who would play to those fears with demagoguery, rather than minister to them with reassurance and support...
...surprises of this album, however, is the extent to which the drums drive the songs. "W.M.A." (it stand for "White Male American") is a song which rails against racism in the police force. This tune is practically all drum and vocal, with a thrumming bass line in the background. The song's militaristic beat directly contradicts any attempt to classify Pearl Jam as a "guitar" band...
...liberal backlash angst" (a song so nasty that Knox felt compelled to write, in his liner notes, that the fictional person whose thoughts it expresses should probably kill himself). Chris Knox has something neat to say about every single one of those topics and more, and a range of vocal melodies to match. "Not Given Lightly" is one of the most sincere and moving love songs I know; I've personally seen it captivate at first hearing people who don't normally know, or care to know, anything about "punk rock...
Pitted against these bipolar forces is one of the country's most experienced politicians -- the holder of nine Cabinet posts in previous Liberal governments -- and a vocal federalist. Chretien, 59, takes office with a clear, if daunting, mandate: to turn around the limp economy while preserving an expensive social-service network that 28.5 million Canadians -- and Chretien himself -- see as an inalienable right...