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Liam Carey reviews
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THIEVES LIKE USThose self-styled miserable blighters Radiohead, after the double-whammy of Kid A and Amnesiac reduced the band's fanbase with their brand of introspective, unloveable avant-garde rock, return full of promise with Hail To The Thief. Having done much to dispell their stereotypical image with a good-natured appearance on the terminally frivolous Friday Night With Jonathan Ross, they then spend several pages in the current issue of Q magazine reinforcing said stereotypical image. Hmm. A case of bloody-mindedness, or cocking a snoop at the poor imitation of its former self that Q has become by taking the piss? Back to the music, pre-release hype suggested an album more akin to the Radiohead sound of old, abandoning the indulgent artiness of their last two albums. Not so. Hail To The Thief, perhaps inevitably, falls somewhere between Amnesiac and 1997's OK Computer. Lead single There There overcomes initial similarities with REM's Bang And Blame to fashion an evocatively menacing mien all its own, aided by the year's outstanding promotional video in which a twitching, sleepy-eyed Thom Yorke happens upon an otherworldy forest only to be lured into putting on golden clothing that painfully turns him into a tree. Yikes. |
FIGHTING SPIRITOne of the most successful albums of 2003 has been Stripped by former bubblegum-popstrel-turned-provocative-artiste Christina Aguilera. Its first single, Dirrty, showcased an aggressive sexuality with its pseudo-pornographic video, and exemplified the fashionably risque attitudes to image and base lyrical preoccupations of today's pop. Yet, its follow-up (and another UK chart-topper) Beautiful was a remarkably traditional, genuinely emotive ballad that recalled The Beatles' latter-period work in its powerfully minimalistic arrangement. Credit where it's due, then. For her next trick, Aguilera moves into the defiant rock-diva territory beloved of Anastacia with another cut from Stripped. Fighter (out this week) is either unlistenable, cliched nonsense or the voice of an uncompromising talent, depending on your point of view and personal taste. |
BRINGING THE CHARTS TO LIFEThe single of the decade is current UK #1 Bring Me To Life by Evanescence. According to Dotmusic's chart analyst James Masterton, that is. In recent months, the preminent voice on all things chartwise has made some bizarre statements in his exclusive Top 40 commentaries, but he has surely outdone himself this time. What used to be a straightforward trawl through that week's movers and shakers, as Masterton the fact-fiend cast his eye over chart developments, has regrettably become a vehicle for increasingly personal and thinly-disguised views, with an agenda both tainted with arrogance and almost perversely determined to buy into the current hyperbolic mindset of the media and music industry at large. Now, this is no fault on Evanescence's part to be unfairly lauded with the tag of magically resurrecting the credibility and quality of the UK chart single-handedly. Bring Me To Life is a fine record, and with the exception of Linkin Park's In The End, quite probably the finest example of its genre to yet materialize. Yet quite how anyone, least of all someone such as James Masterton, could seriously deem a perfectly effective but hardly original track to be such a momentous event in the history of contemporary music raises more questions over the continuing validity of the already over-commercialised and editorially suspect Dotmusic than it does about the merits of Evanescence themselves. A photogenic female vocalist with Tori Amos tendencies backed by what for all money may as well be Linkin Park could never be viewed as the genuine future of anything. Could it? |
FUTURE SOUNDSThe best music on the horizon:
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The following is a list of Liam's Liner Notes online :
Volume 22: December 17th 2003 Volume 21: December 3rd 2003 Volume 20: November 5th 2003 Volume 19: October 22nd 2003 Volume 18: October 8th 2003 Volume 17: September 24th 2003 Volume 16: September 10th 2003 Volume 15: August 27th 2003 Volume 14: August 13th 2003 Volume 13: July 30th 2003 Volume 12: July 9th 2003 Volume 11: June 25th 2003 Volume 10: June 11th 2003 Volume 9: May 28th 2003 Volume 8: May 14th 2003 Volume 7: April 30th 2003 Volume 6: April 16th 2003 Volume 5: April 2nd 2003 Volume 4: March 19th 2003 Volume 3: March 5th 2003 Volume 2: February 19th 2003 Volume 1: February 5th 2003
DVDs reviewed by the editor are watched on a Panasonic TXW32R4 32" widescreen TV connected to either a Creative Dxr2 DVD-ROM player or Microsoft Xbox and played through a Sony STR-DB930 amplifier.
PC games reviewed by the editor are on:
