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...championship, at 14 the world's youngest current international master, and at 19 the world's youngest grandmaster. All the while he struggled through school as the genius underachiever striving unsuccessfully to blend in with the guys. He went easy on the studies, grew his hair long and played bass guitar in a punk band called the Urge...
...misnomer. Nirvana has been reborn. Its 1991 album Nevermind was a great leap forward (after Bleach, in 1989), selling more than 4 million copies. Song after song started off with gorgeous guitar hooks, as in the anxious chords that kicked off Smells Like Teen Spirit, or the bouncy bass-guitar strumming that launched Lithium. Its punk-inspired, we-couldn't-care-less ethos seemed to reflect the restless apathy some young people felt toward their times. "Oh well, whatever, nevermind," Cobain sang on Teen Spirit. The strength of Nevermind was its ambiguity; the next logical step was an album with...
Joel's gem is the sleepytime title tune. Its consonant-poppin' lyric charts a land where pop merges with gospel, black embraces white, dread is absolved by belief -- in God, in dreams, in the rolling sing-along cadence of a doo-wop bass line. "We all end in the ocean,/ We all start in the streams,/ We're all carried along/ By the river of dreams." And by effortlessly sophisticated, perfectly primal music. It makes the journey of faith as jaunty as a Nintendo quest...
...huge bass line and bottomless saxophones back up Richards and the unidentified female vocalist who sings the high notes. Standing in for the honky-tonk harmonica from the original studio version is a gut-wrenching menace that can barely shriek loudly enough to be audible over the constant pounding of the bass, drums and Richards' amazingly continuous guitar choruses...
...that's really what the album is, quality noise. Although the lyrics sound as if they were sung by the boy wailing on the album cover, the music was definitely not played by him. A strong bass and an industrial twist to the music that can be jazzy, creepy or angry make Cop Shoot Cop a band you can't put your finger on, but you'd love to have in your hand...