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Close your eyes and listen to Tony Toni Tone's graceful new CD and you may think you're hearing one of those sidewalk sale records. The Tonyies are lead singer and bassist Raphael Wiggins, his guitarist brother D'wayne Wiggins, and their cousin, drummer Timothy Christian Riley. They're all in their mid-20s, and this CD is an R.-and-B. tribute to the music they grew up with. My Ex- Girlfriend borrows the bridge from Sly and the Family Stone's 1968 song M'Lady. As another cut fades, Raphael sings, "Last night a D.J. saved...
What is interesting about "Questions" is that the music starts to soften without mellowing as the CD continues. The first songs are ruled by hard beats, jawbreaker samples and intense bass work. For example, the title of the hard-hitting "Surprise, Surprise" is more than just creative use of a comma. It signifies the look you get on your face when you realize that the lyrics in the song don't even have to be there...
...BOTTOM LINE: A historic five-CD retrospective restores the Beach Boys to their rightful place...
Until now. Wilson scrubbed the release just a few weeks before the Sergeant Pepper debut. Why he did this has remained a subject of continued speculation and not a little mythmaking. But the centerpiece of this new, must-have, five- CD "anniversary collection" of classics and unreleased material is a 30- minute selection from the Smile sessions: unfinished, incomplete and glorious. The music is mystic, mad, wild and gentle, quite unlike anything anyone, including Wilson, had ever tried in pop before. The lyrics were as fleeting as a waking dream; the musical tracks were layered as if Wilson were...
MUSIC A luminous CD set affirms the Beach Boys' place in pop history. THEATER Tom Stoppard's Arcadia is the best British play in years. BOOKS David Halberstam engrossingly surveys The Fifties. A brilliant, flawed novel by Richard Powers. CINEMA Rookie of the Year strikes out. SHOW BUSINESS Disney offers an uninspired stage extravaganza...