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...similarly triumphant "Swingin'," and "Room At The Top" showcases the band's "screw 'em" mentality as well as its ever-mature capacity for tight, anthemic bite. Petty's musical roots show gleefully through the Byrdsian "Accused of Love" and the jangly, warm-weather "Won't Last Long." His bittersweet vocals melt heartbreakingly in ballads like "Lonesome Sundown." Mike Campbell's steady guitar work provides perfect support and in some cases lends the music a tenacity that Petty's lilting whine, for all its mouthy charm, doesn't. Echo, in the end, is the product of a band that knows itself...
...oddities like "Eyeball Kid." On Mule Variations, the music pounds and the lyrics are sharp, "My eyes say their prayers to her/sailors ring her bell/Like a moth mistakes a light bulb/For the moon and goes to hell." From the grinding sturm und drang of "Big in Japan" to the bittersweet strum and twang of "Pony," Waits finds a little bit o' grit, a touch of tenderness and plenty of humor in the everything-in-between...
...similarly triumphant "Swingin,'" and "Room At The Top" showcases the band's "screw 'em" mentality as well as its ever-mature capacity for tight, anthemic bite. Petty's musical roots show gleefully through the Byrdsian "Accused of Love" and the jangly, warm-weather "Won't Last Long." His bittersweet vocals melt heartbreakingly in ballads like "Lonesome Sundown." Mike Campbell's steady guitar work provides perfect support and in some cases lends the music a tenacity that Petty's lilting whine, for all its mouthy charm doesn't. Echo, in the end, is the product of a band that knows itself...
...first 90 piquant seconds of Gedida, infused with Mediterranean motifs, Egyptian strings, bittersweet melody and digitized beats, cause forgotten limbs to tap, twiddle, turn and trot. Atlas, an Egyptian-Palestinian-half-Muslim-half-Jewish-singe r-belly-dancer, Brussels-born and U.K.-raised, has performed in London with Jah Wobble, the club fusion outlet Transglobal Underground and in Page and Plant's 1998 European Tour. Gedida is her third album. And perhaps, enough. Atlas' climactic introduction is just a prelude to ten long, indistinguishable tracks, Gedida has everything--hip hop, London dance beats, samplings from Rob Base & E-Z Rock...
...housewives, the strange behaviors of old and young men in crisis, and the fateful coincidences which save or end a life. Englander imbues his stories with a wry, intelligent sense of humor and a fresh perspective on the burdens of daily life, Neither depressing nor exactly uplifting, these bittersweet tales intersperse laugh-out-loud moments with serious and troubling revelations...