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Miller was, and is, equally capable of astonished joy ("Sleeping through Heaven"), comic enthusiasm ("The Girls Are Ready to Go," unaccountably abbreviated on the new CD's label as "TGARTG"), Elvis Costello-ish self-mockery ("Bad Year at UCLA"), and honestly painful self-reproach ("The Red Baron"). Once you stop noticing how high his voice is, you'll probably start noticing its agility: "I want to go bang on every door/And say 'Wake up, you're sleeping through heaven'" has three contrasting riffs buried in it. Your average power-pop singer would give it one at most. Far from being...
...Posies songs--Tommy Keene is where to start looking. People who do that sort of thing for a living have been scratching their heads for years about why this man has never had a hit (too pure? no sex appeal? no weird hats?); these people included one major record label, who scrapped Keene's contract only days after his last album came out, in 1988. Now he's back in the business, kicking around the independent music scene: The Real Underground collects 20-odd tracks from the start of his career (which dates back to about 1980, just like...
...LABEL: MERCURY...
...experiences. Maya's office looks like the nightmare mess your first-year roommate left behind. Her life seems to resemble the chaos of her office. Frenetically trying to clean up, she tells us of her parents' activities in the Communist party. She says, "my father's life has a label," one for which she is clearly still looking. Later, Kate sits in an elegant chair beside a reading table with a single iris in a crystal vase. She speaks in measured and reserved tones, yet when she remembers becoming involved the theatre in Paris, she says, still enthralled by what...
MOST OF US will never see our names on the cover of Sassy magazine unless, of course, it's on the address label. Not so for the Sassiest Girl in America, Malikah Sherman...