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...depths of New York's underground club scene. When their first album, Ruby Vroom, spread its funkified wings in 1994, thousands of hungry, pulsing teenagers gasped. Here, at last, was a thing of beauty. Here, at last, was something that made you go "Oh God, yeah, Oh God, I wanna, God, I wanna DANCE." Body-throbbing funk with a deep, heavy low-end, witty lyrics that read like poetry and presuppose (gasp) intelligent listeners, and the seductively quirky voice of lead singer Michael Doughty all melded together on Ruby Vroom to create nothing short of a miracle. Their second album...
...came back from dinner--after everyone cleared out when the Bare Naked Ladies finished playing, was treated to a great show by Hootie and the Blowfish. With half the audience gone, fans could actually see the stage, and have room to dance around to past hits like "Time," "Only Wanna Be with You" and great covers of "Keep Your Hands to Yourself" and "Love the One You're With." But who wants to read about that? This is no longer 1995, and fickle fans hate Hootie...
Crow's first two albums, 1993's Tuesday Night Music Club and 1996's Sheryl Crow, include songs that any radio listener could identify and quote from. Who can forget, and indeed consistent radio play makes it hard to forget, the lines "All I wanna do is have some fun," Everyday is a winding road" and "If it makes you happy..."? Crow shaped the songs on her first two albums around these sing-along lyrics and a host of fictional characters, relating anecdotes about a promiscuous neighbor in "Oh Marie," a bored and nosy bar chick in "All I Wanna...
Rising like Aphrodite from the sea, one or two songs from film soundtracks inevitably surface as a particular season's Love Song. Be it sentimental (Aerosmith's "I Don't Wanna Miss a Thing" from Armageddon), bitter and/or vengeful (Mary J. Blige's "I'm Not Gonna Cry" from Waiting to Exhale) or, most common of all, composed by Bryan Adams (Robin Hood Prince of Thieves's "Everything I Do [I Do it For You]," Don Juan DeMarco's "[Have You Ever] Really Loved a Woman?"), these Love Songs dominate radio play-lists and often surpass their related movies...
...create this album of Love Songs has been to address almost every song to one person, presumably whatever girl is being "dizzied up," and to permeate each line with the same type of dark, tortured, adolescent, I-love-you-why-won't-you-let-me-in infatuation. "I wanna kick at the machine/That made you piss away your dreams/And tear at your defenses/Till there's nothing there but me," declares Rzeznik in "Dizzy," and so on he bellyaches throughout the other 12 songs on the album. "They press their lips against you/And you love the lies they say/And I tried...