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Billion Dollar Gravy (Hospital). Review by Ben Varkentine.
... Out, NME and The Big Issue all appear to believe to greater or lesser degrees that they hung the moon. London Elektricity is trying to make "real music in drum+bass," according to their former record company, anyway. And who should know better, considering that front man Tony Coleman and his former ...
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Ben Varkentine,Albums that got me through 2004,by Ben Varkentine
ALBUMS THAT GOT ME THROUGH 2004 by Ben Varkentine A few things you should know before we begin: 1) Ordering a list like this is difficult because it is arbitrary. What I mean is that I would not want anyone to think that I'm saying Bobby Darin's Aces Back To Back is necessarily a "better" album than ...
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As a dog returns to its... master, so VH-1 returns to excavate the '80s once more. But Ben Varkentine's been digging those fields a lot longer than they have, and he's got the scars to prove it.
THINGS THEY DIDN'T TELL YOU ON I LOVE THE '80S -- STRIKES BACK! by Ben "I really do love the '80s" Varkentine 10. That kid from Mr. Belvedere may not have grown up to be Marilyn Manson, as rumor had it, but you know the director character in Mel Brooks' original Producers movie -- "Max...he's wearing ...
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Ben Varkentine says the only way this book, subtitled "Forty Years of Words and Music, Show Biz, Collaboration and All That Jazz," would be a greater experience is if it came with an accompanying CD of Kander & Ebb's greatest creations. Yeah, he liked this one a little bit.
... Cabaret, "All That Jazz," from Chicago, "Liza With a Z" and "Theme from 'New York, New York'." Amazon would do well to offer an anthology of their music like And The World Goes 'Round at a discount with purchase, as that's the kind of book this is: It sends you mentally scanning through your record ...
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Various Artists (Hyena). Review by Ben Varkentine.
... , sheets of cool beauty slowly melted by warm, silver ripples. Al Cohn & Zoot Sims' "Mr. George" follows; a tenor sax duet falls into the category of music that is perfectly fine, but does not happen to do anything for me personally...at least at first. I must admit that by the end, the way the two swing ...
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Eternal Youth (Instinct). Review by Ben Varkentine.
... , a wonderful idea. But while this is definitely synth, it isn't much in the way of pop. I'm working from Neil Finn's secondary definition of pop music, by the way (the first being, basically, music that is popular), from the book Behind The Muse. "An appreciation of simple, elegant melodies over interesting ...
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The Awful Truth (Grafton). Review by Ben Varkentine.
ANDI CAMP THE AWFUL TRUTH Grafton Well, she's about half right, I'd say. Truthfully, the music isn't really that awful, it's just that it's not enormously good. Andi Camp is trying to make piano-pop along the lines of Joe Jackson--"Car Doors" is practically a rewrite--but she lacks his gift for melody ...
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Les Is More, A Tale of Two Cities, The Man Who Cried Fire, and Radio Nights (Hyena). Review by Ben Varkentine.
... conscious of their places in the pantheon. Sometimes I think musicians can't win for losing, even when they're dead. But I digress. Now, back to the music... Let me put it this way: I suspect there may be better Cannonball Adderley CDs, but just because there's better doesn't mean this one is the worst ...
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Radio JXL: A Broadcast From The Computer Hell Cabin (Koch). Review by Varkentine GSPJ.
... , man, for all my status as a '80s guy, The Cure has always been one of my pet hates. Can't say why, they just have. But "Perfect Blue Sky" (music by JXL, lyric by Smith) has such a becomingly moody guitar track that when Smith enters, he sounds a lot like that guy who used to annoy you at work but whom ...
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