From: owner-oppositeview-digest@smoe.org (oppositeview-digest) To: oppositeview-digest@smoe.org Subject: oppositeview-digest V2 #176 Reply-To: oppositeview@smoe.org Sender: owner-oppositeview-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-oppositeview-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk oppositeview-digest Saturday, December 2 2000 Volume 02 : Number 176 Today's Subjects: ----------------- OV: Ronan Keating ["Kevin Cawthorne - www.delamitri.co.uk" Subject: OV: Ronan Keating from Dotmusic www.dotmusic.co.uk - not sure how to take this one! - ----------------------------- Ronan Keating's bemusing solo rise will no doubt continue with this plodding rock ballad, part-penned by Bryan Adams. Sure he's a nice bloke with a decent voice but how many million of those are there kicking cans around countless high streets of a Saturday afternoon? For when Ronan steps out from the comforting ranks of Boyzone every now and again, you realise just how ordinary he is. Hell, perhaps that's his appeal. Whatever. But, while 'The Way You Make Me Feel' will do its utmost to top the charts, there's no escaping the fact that it really is plainly and simply ordinary. And that, despite its Canadian rock legend origins, it sounds like a Del Amitri B-side. Surely we expect more from our pop stars ladies and gentlemen! But there really is worse to come. Not in the shape of 'Song To...' which is vague and shapeless and totally forgettable. But in the guise of a cover of The Pogues' 'Fairy Tale Of New York', recently covered during Keating's live shows. This duet with Clannad's Maire Brennan is slick, soul-free and lacking any of the magical, drunken, snow-sprinkled romance of Shane MacGowan and Kirsty MacColl's original. In fact it gives ordinary a bad name. - -------------------------- Kevin Cawthorne www.delamitri.co.uk ------------------------------ End of oppositeview-digest V2 #176 **********************************