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Volume I, Issue 32
January 12 - January 20, 1998
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 Turntabling
There's still a fair amount of confusion out there about what this DJ thing really means, but DJ Shadow is one name everyone knows. [2]
Matt Ashare
 Marriage of Inconvenience
A look at jazz's long and cheesy attempts to cover rock themes. And why there's hope for better music to come. [3]
Dave McElfresh
 Everything Old is New Again
The year in albums, both nationally and locally. [4]
Raoul Hernandez
National Top Ten Albums
National Top Ten Albums. [5]
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 Kings of Rock
Run-D.M.C. changed everything. [6]
Rich Collins
 "Following Her Heart"
Michael McCall on Trisha Yearwood's year of recognition (finally!). [7]
Michael McCall
 Bird Watching
Andrew Bird fans the flames of hot jazz with his Chicago-based band, Bowl of Fire. [8]
Dave Chamberlain
"Before Her Time"
Beverly Keel mourns Canadian country singer Amie Comeaux. [9]
Beverly Keel
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 Sad, sad. Joy! Joy!
Joy Division, one of the precious few rock bands to reach the summit of honest, brutal, heart-breaking beauty, is recast in a new box set. [10]
Ben Fulton
The "Naked" Truth
If you own the entire Ben Folds Five discography up to this point, almost nothing on "Naked Baby Photos" will be new to you. [11]
Douglas Wolk
Our Man in Havana
Ry Cooder's "Buena Vista Social Club" is a funky gem of an album that showcases some of the greatest names in the history of Cuban pop. [12]
Ed Hazell
 The Ice Queen
A new three-CD anthology sets the record straight on British soul singer Dusty Springfield. [13]
Matt Hanks
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here ought to be a field of linguistics dedicated solely to language
based on musical genres. Just a cursory glance at this week's
music section reveals a whole gob o' words that you'd need to
take a graduate-level course to fully understand: illbient,
electronica, digital hardcore, jungle, trip-hop, acid jazz, exotica....
Nobody ever says things like, "There's this heavy bass line
and a whooshing sound, then these horns come in, and it sounds
like they're recorded backwards, and then a repeating keyboard
riff floats in and out of the track while somebody samples Gene
Wilder saying something over and over from 'Willie Wonka.'"
Music writers just don't describe things that way anymore. Instead
they write densely packed end-of-year pieces like this. Or vocabulary-challenging
pieces like this one, which explains the new DJs-as-album-artists
phenomenon. Pretty soon you'll need a PhD to be a music journalist.
(Though I'm sure if you just made half of it up nobody would know
the difference.)
I'm being way too cynical here. Sorry. For some reason, my attitude
today is just plain gloomy. Perhaps it's due to reading this negative
look back at jazz covers of popular songs. Or this elegy about
the senseless death of an up-and-coming country star. Or this
depressing look back at the rise and fall of one of the great,
unheralded genius-level bands, Joy Division.
I'm feeling such a world-weary sense of ennui that I didn't even
bother to read these pieces about Trisha Yearwood, Run-D.M.C.,
Dusty Springfield, Ben Folds Five, or Ry Cooder.
Leave me alone.
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"Folked Up"
On a new compilation of folk bluesman Dock Boggs, the controversial new Tricky single, and honkytonk sensation Paul Burch. [14]
Jim Ridley and Bill Friskics-Warren
Boston Phoenix CD Reviews
- Bill Bruford
- Jimi Hendrix
- Linton Kwesi Johnson
- Mainliner
- Frank Pahl
- William Parker
- Iggy Pop
- Richard Shindell
- Timbaland and Magoo
Turn Up That Noise!
- Ralph Carney
- Hank Jones
- Horace Silver
Rhythm & Views
- Aria
- Ian Whitcomb and the White Star Orchestra
- Jack Killed Jill
Now What? 
If you go gaga over the sultry smoothness of a symphonic glissando, just wait till you experience our transitions to cool and useful music links on the Web. [18]
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