Katy Perry seems to divide opinion. There are some that think she writes throw-away music for high school kids and give her no credit. Some give her begrudging credit because one or two of those songs are catchy. Some have voiced an opinion on ‘I Kissed a Girl’ alone, sighting it as nothing more than a manipulative flirt with the gay audience a la Pink, Madonna and Britney.
“Their music rolls like a Manchester Limousine. Beautiful on the surface yet intricate and clever if you care to look deeper. And if you do, well, the journey that you go on makes it all worth it.”
“Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does”
Is the debut album cursed?
Many reviewers have said this, all a lot more experienced than this one, but an old idea is a good idea; bands have their whole life to record their first album, no-one is listening and much of the time no-one is waiting for it.
“Do we get the thumbs up?”
Kane are a band started by Christian Kane and Steve Carlson. Buffyverse fans are no stranger to Christian, if they have heard LA Song on the Angel soundtrack. However, as Christian himself was quick to point out to me, “I didn’t write that song, David Greenwalt wrote that song…”
Coming, as this album does, after a three year break during which Bruce had been written off as ‘yesterday’s man’, you would expect some difference between Born To Run and Darkness On The Edge of Town but the differences are major and they served as a sharp signal of where future Springsteen material would go. Gone are the romantic ideas of “getting to that place where we wanna go” and walking in the sun. In there place a harsher, more realistic tone. We are left in no doubt that running away is not the answer. The characters on Darkness are staying in town and working through their own personal darkness. Read the rest of this entry »
