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Powderfinger
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Beck
Geffen Records Inc.
Australian band Powderfinger has been certified
platinum five times in Australia, proving that Aus
tralians have just as much appetite for the banal as
Americans.
The first three songs are so forgettable, the average
listener will probably not be able to remember what
they sound like immediately after listening to them.
This monotony is broken by the fourth track, “Like a
Dog,” which begins with a light acoustic section ac
companied. It breaks into a harder and more melodic
chorus, but, unfortunately, the song keeps returning to
the terrible style it begins with.
Accompanying lead singer Bernard Fanning’s vo
cals with a group of back-up singers trying to reach a
few octaves too high seems to be a recurring theme.
The sixth song, “Up and Down and Back Again,” is
the first bright spot. With guitar riffs sounding like a
slightly more commercial Radiohead with understand
able vocals, this is a decent slow song. The only prob
lem is that Radiohead has already done it.
The album becomes more melodic and polished to
ward the end, with songs like “My Kind of Scene” and
“Whatever Makes You Happy,” but there is nothing
new here. Still, it might spawn some interesting com
petitions between friends trying to decipher what band
Powderfinger is trying to sound like with each song.
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to be a “Loser.” (Grade: B) ■f t_T H
This CD is too long and too bad to describe. In its
70 minutes, Keoki packs in a whopping 10 tracks for
an average song length of seven minutes, and the
longest track tops out at a ridiculous 10 minutes. Add
in the fact that eight of the iO songs are outright hor
rible, and the listener is left feeling nauseous and
cheated.
Keoki appears to have been aiming to recreate ’80s
synth pop and ’70s disco, right down to the Blondie
sample and cover of Frankie Goes to Hollywood’s
“Relax.”
The songs are not only long but also bad. Keoki
combines long introductions with long songs that have
no real progression. He also performs the vocals, which
are poorly written and badly sung. The line, “New
York, New York, a place so nice, everybody said so, so
they had to name it twice. That’s right,” is typical of the
bad lyrics on the CD.
“Realize” is a bright spot, although it has little to
offer beyond the drum section. However, in the hands
of a competent drum ‘n’ bass remixer, this could be a
good track.
“Veronica” is a decent song, sounding much like DJ
key’s vintage breaks. Unfortunately, it has one good
riff and not much else.
This is mindless party music, though, and something
can be said for that —just not much. (Grade: D)
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Frusciante unleashes his higher range on songs!
“Remain,” “Saturation” and “Wind up Space,”
result is an interesting combination of piercing voc
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into the song.
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scored. Using synthesizers and drum loops, Fruscit
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so unique and refreshing in a world of three-chord
gles that one almost overlooks Frusciante’s vocals
almost. (Grade: B-)
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