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.
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