Word: albums
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...very different bunch of Stones who recently scrounged around and came up with the non-greatest hits album, Sucking in the Seventies. The collection, drawn mostly from the Black and BlueSome Girls-Emotional Rescue trilogy, lacks the bad-assed tone that once inspired you to embroider a red lips-and-toungue patch on a down parks, and has only faint traces of the weary, but often witty attitude of the past several years. Sucking is not a comprehensive summary of the Stones in the Seventies; they were better than this on everything from Sticky Fingers to the unjustly criticized Goats...
...tears of boredom, frustration, rage. Elvis was a ferret trapped in a septic tank...He got his rocks off that time, the fury dribbled out, and Trust is his depressing post-coital meditation--no longer an active participant. Elvis watches us all from the stage. Trust, his most objective album, is also his least taut: it breathes, and sometimes it hyperventilates. The songs are more spacious, giving Elvis more chances to pose, to mince a bit, and some of his vocals have a slurred, lolling quality, made creepy by strangely dissonant, disconnected back-up vocals. See him there, leaning against...
...complete trios of Haydn, Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Schumann, and Dvorak. For their efforts, the Beaux Arts have won numerous recording prizes, including the Deutscher Schallplatterpreis, the Grand Prix du Disque, and Gramophone's Record of the Year. The latter was awarded in 1980 for their monumental 14-album set of the complete 43 Haydn piano trios, many of which were previously unavailable to the listening public. Gramophone called this work, eight years in the making, "a landmark in the history of recorded chamber music." Their Silver Anniversary recording of Beethoven's "Archduke" Trio is a current bestseller...
Buffet's music traditionally conveys the atmosphere of the South Florida lifestyle via Buffett's own interpretation of current themes. The cultural traces include Heineken empties and fishing lines, spongecake crumbs and lime rinds. But in his latest album, "Coconut Telegraph," although familiar themes reiterate themselves, an underlying message glows in the brain like a neon Krystal sign: Even Jimmy Buffett is getting older...
...fight them, Buffett opens the second side with "The Weather Is Here, Wish You Were Beautiful." The song begins with chatter and shrieks from the Coral Reefer Band and sundry other studio personnel, culminating in Buffett himself hollering "Don't ever start a band!" This song will make the album worthwhile for all diehard funseekers with lines like "Hell, nobody's perfect/would you like to play/I feel together today...