Word: albums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shout" is by no means the only great song in the album. The two next best are "That Lucky Old Sun," which presents a Spenserian contrast between the ideal pastoral world and the world of brutal reality and "Respectable," which examines the clash of antipodal ethical systems within a society. The latter skillfully employs a catechismic device, reminiscent of Joyce, with the series of queries...
While the album Shout is great, many people consider Twist and Shout even better. In the Isley Brothers' early songs they improve upon--but nonetheless remain somewhat shackled by--the classical Bo Diddley syndrome, which needs no explanation here. Twist and Shout transcends. To risk oversimplification, one could say that the Isley Brothers began with the Twist and ascended...
...title song of this album has justifiably risen to the stature of One of The All-Time Greats. But the song, like many others on the album, though it has a great emotional intensity, lacks the depth of its predecessors. T.S. Eliot has been sacrificed on the altar of Dylan Thomas. Consider the relative intellectual shallowness...
Only "Hold on Baby" saves the Twist and Shout album from total intellectual aridity. The song presents a character delineation next to which Hamlet pales by comparison. The speaker implores...
...Pack, 27, he found just the right voices to join him. They address their songs with earthy humor, belting them out with comic-opera polish and horsing around to the brink of buffoonery. Embarked upon their first big tour, they have bookings in seven cities and a Capital Records album to show for their success...