I
will damned by rock musicians if they will know that I put them in one review with
ABBA who releases a new album today after forty years. I don’t follow for
modern music, because it’s one-bit rubbish without individuality what I
absolutely don’t like it. It passed behind that musicians as Paul McCartney and
Ozzy Osbourne released new albums in a previous year and Alice Cooper did it in
this one. Last time when I saw Paul, he degraded on playing on banjo (I think)
for two modern untalented sex indifferent blacks. I don’t know now, but fifteen
years ago collaboration became a common thing ruled to platitude. It’s somewhere
remind attraction equal in films when solely actor doesn’t take a big
attraction while two known names takes it more.
Voyage
by ABBA makes unbelievable to forty years hiatus. Members said same about their
reunion looked that they last meeting was a day before. An album sounds in
their recognizable style where only difference in older voice of Anni-Frid
Lyngstad. Nevertheless, nothing inventive, absence of specialty and without
breakthrough in music and texts. It’s the precise definition for ordinary pop. Sometimes
I thought that will hear an old known song due to familiar tunes. “Keep an Eye
on Dan” was in possibility to be individual in music, but it still was pop in
worst where words repeat after repeat as it did music. Voyage can get
comfortable in catching of Swedish and Christmas, but maybe I just feel it’s
coming now. Most of all I had in wish to go to sleep. I wanted to yodeling from
desperation in listening this voyage to pop hell.
One
to third songs of Ozzy Osbourne’s Ordinary Man are boring-machine of generic
hard rock. I was listening and thought why not anymore of masterpieces “I Just
Want You”, “Dreamer”, “Mama, I’m Coming Home”. Quality was improving in further
song. Quality of title song “Ordinary Man” makes piano play by Sir Elton John
who also beautifully adds in few sang strokes of good text. And experience guitar
player Slash is advantage of promising, but not executable to be it song. In
nothing unique using of different musical instruments. “Under the Graveyard”
was also same. Hard rock becomes softer in which Prince of Darkness looks Big Unicorn
of Rock (I hope he willn’t read it.). Sympathetic “Today Is the End” isn’t tremendous.
“Scary Little Green Man” better in components, but as everything immediately
forgets, because nothing have for that. “Holy for Tonight” is plain rock.
Downfall in the last ten an eleven songs with unknown co-singer who follower of
modern stream in lack of individuality. “It’s a Raid” degrades in text where
Ozzy and that mentioned a sentence before co-singing man recall every swear. A
song for teenager choice. “Take What You Want” is modern R&B or whatever it
calls today. Ozzy Osbourne is partially there, and he and play of guitar in the
end are the fine of total squeaking awfulness, which finishes without a point.
Alice
Cooper usually keeps to particular style, which surprises in always unique songs.
Detroit Stories is known Alice Cooper with never-changing voice. Personally,
this album contains calm rock for comfortable use for background. Inventive texts.
It’s always artistry as it in background voice, musician instruments as it can
be a harmonica, way of presenting as “Independence Dave”. He said that inspiration
for album was hard rock scenes of Detroit in 70s and 80s. I was getting that
and I had recalling with 50s rock’n’roll where I thought on Chuck Berry, his
songs as Johnny B. Goode and Roll Over Beethoven. A rock singer reminded his
magnificence in narrating, which he does in “Hanging on by a Thread”. Alice
Cooper.
Paul
McCartney never cease to experiment and does variety in McCartney III. Play of
guitar in “Long Tailed Winter Bird” is my favorable pleasure to songs without
words or little of text as it here. It is where music is main. Paul McCartney
in this album sings nice folded texts with individuality in magic music. I like
people in whom I don’t find defining him artists elements. I didn’t guess what
I hear from another listening. If an artist is recognizable – he is
predictable. Paul in McCartney III makes, as he always can, dissimilarity in
voices. “When Winter Comes” was written in 1992 – it, as any song, hasn’t feel
of when it was made.
