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...Damiano as “artists” of the first rank. Inside Deep Throat, with its attempt to portray the American tragedy of the rise and fall of the self-made man (and woman), overreaches and ultimately misses its mark, but provides a thoroughly entertaining portrait of pornographic pop culture, its peddlers, and its consumers...
...album Take Fountain comes with a flashy cover brandishing “The Wedding Present,” the name of a group dormant since 1997, when songwriter David Gedge began recording more mature and Baroque-styled pop songs under the name Cinerama, collaborating with girlfriend Sally Murrel. The relationship has recently ended, and Gedge has returned to the band he made his name with in the late ’80s. Unfortunately, he hasn’t fully shaken the musical indulgences that set Cinerama’s music apart from the brash and jangly sound of the Wedding...
...arrangement of jangly guitars and keyboard. But even when the guitars start to really rumble towards the end, the song fails to capture the Wedding Present sound. It’s too polished—understandably, of course, because by this time around the Wedding Present are a chamber-pop band without the roughness around the musical edges that puts so much charm on a record like their ’87 debut George Best...
...know “Haiduc” means “an outlaw” in Romanian? For its first week, “The Prying Game” bothered Adamsians about that crazy Romanian pop song—you know, the one in that video of the chubby kid lip-synching...
...spent the fall there…Israel, Italy, Germany, Austria, Spain, in clubs. It was kind of like “Hey Ya!” last year…Everyone would kind of go crazy…[But] I don’t think Romanian pop is going to take off… I think it would only be [this song...