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...performance of Smile itself (and other Beach Boys hits, including one from Pet Sounds) was more equivocal than the concert’s sloganeering: Brian Wilson is clearly a more constrained musician than he once was. Where the Smile album succeeded in cloaking Wilson’s vocal limitations behind other singers and an excellent production, the live show necessarily did not. He ran out of breath during “Surf’s Up.” He was flat during “Vegetables.” Often, he simply delegated lyrics...
...turned off by Bush appear to have been on the margins of Business School culture: the few women, the young professors who wanted to change the way their subjects were taught and the people whose politics simply clashed with the conservatives around them. For these students, as for the vocal mass of Bush opposers today, the man’s confidence represented a disturbing inability to see beyond his comfort zone and question his own beliefs...
Other marshals, however, were more vocal about their ideas. Nong’s older sister, Chantal, graduated from Yale in 2003, and Nong hopes to borrow ideas from Yale’s senior activities...
...Star Spangled Banner that segued into an explosive Born in the U.S.A. Springsteen barely paused between songs in his set and traded verses with guest John Fogerty on Fortunate Son and Stipe on Because the Night. As always, he crammed as much American mythology as possible into his vocal cords. "That's our job as artists," he said later. "We're here to sing and be inspired and hopefully inspire other people too." Of course, that's what politics is supposed...
...song jumps to life with the sudden arrival of a surging bass line and steady backbeat. Interpol has a new swagger, is more direct and present. Banks’ familiar drone, tired but on pitch, remains an ideal complement for the shadowy sound his band churns out. The vocal melodies are catchy and diverse. The final product is more organic and less distant than the debut...