From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V10 #229 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Monday, September 19 2005 Volume 10 : Number 229 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [AVALON] Sleep-devoid (?) Bryan Ferry mentioned in Rolling Stones' review [helchat@earthlink.n] To leave the list, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon-digest ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 17:45:59 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: helchat@earthlink.net Subject: [AVALON] Sleep-devoid (?) Bryan Ferry mentioned in Rolling Stones' review here's the link: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/music/story.jsp?story=661838 If you can't get to it, here's the review: ROLLING STONES A Bigger Bang (EMI) *** It's hard to be disrespectful to a band that have spent more than 40 years at the top of their professional tree. But listening to the group's latest album, you'd swear they've run out of ideas. A Bigger Bang is a strange record. The first couple of tracks are belters - with Mick and co rediscovering the joys of the dirty rock and roll they pioneered all those years ago. Rough Justice is a rousing opener - typical Stones in many ways - and you hope this is a sign of things to come. Track two, Let Me Down Slow maintains the momentum - a real hairs-standing-on-the-neck track as good if not better than Rough Justice - and you feel this could be the Stones' best record since the 70s. But then things go pear-shaped. The run-of-the-mill It Won't Take Long follows a similar pattern to 101 other Stones' songs while Jagger dribbles out the lyrics like a sleep-devoid Bryan Ferry. Ugh! The Back of My Hand - a four-minute-long pile of horrible cliched blues - is like a Stones tribute group doing karaoke at the local pub. Even worse, though, is Biggest Mistake, which could delve into the territory occupied by big-hair rockers Bon Jovi. When they do dare to be different, they come up with Rain Fall Down - Undercover Part Two if you will. While Bridges To Babylon wasn't everyone's cup of tea, at least it sounded fresh. On the whole, A Bigger Bang sounds tired. It's not all bad news, though. The excellent first couple of tracks and the superb slowie, Streets of Love, save the album from being a complete write-off. ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V10 #229 ***************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest