Sunday, March 8, 2009

Elsewhere album that preoccupied with

A string of hit singles alone wouldn t have made springsteen the bard of america slide from industrial-era swagger into service-economy anomie. Elsewhere, an album that is preoccupied with questions of mortality, romantic fidelity, learning from the past while facing an uncertain future, touches base with some key springsteen staging posts my lucky day is muscular, jersey shore rocknroll soul, life itself is downbeat and minimal to the point of resignation, kingdom of days marries a swoonsome 1950s-pop chord progression to a beautiful lyric about the passage of time, queen of the supermarket boasts a quintessential slow-build intro, sprinkled with roy bittans piano, and this life could almost be a four seasons song, its walking bass and alternately descending and ascending key structure supporting a powerfully affirming lyric that is both deeply personal and universal. In mcnabb defense, he was sick. I m sorry, but if they re going to parade them out at their convenience for all the media to see, then they can t be surprised when people want to see more. Says the plush toys, called sweet sasha and marvelous malia, are not meant to represent the first daughters.

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