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Beach, Beach," for instance; "butt off" comes to mind; ming on "Dug for Love," and the Cohen track after all, the very little the Surfers lack in musi- is subtle), the better you'll like it. Enjoy. cianship, if you like that sort of thing, is tre- —Beth Jacques bled by attitude.) And, alas, they just can't. Still, by now they're probably all accountants, which BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN; Human Touch means the LP will hit. Big. Get the CD for your Columbia CK 53000 (CD only). Toby Scott, eng.; Bruce boom-car and fight it out with the neighbors Springsteen, Jon Landau, Chuck Plotkin, Roy Bittan, pumping NWA. prods. TE 58:49 Ian McCulloch, on the other hand, is an art- BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN: Lucky noon Columbia CK 53001 (CD only). Toby Scott, eng.; Bruce ist, and that means all he needs for marketing Springsteen, Jon Landau, Chuck Plotkin, prods. TE is amoody, reversed-out liner photo and a 39:38 reputation for reclusivity. Thankfully, there's more to this summer movie than that, and Mys- Disclaimer: I'm one of them. One of those tape- terio is one swell album, full of nifty sonic tricks trading, bootleg-buying, Stone-Pony-pil- and complicated thought, all buoyed on the ris- grimaging BRO000000CE fanatics that ing tide of astrong and tightly controlled keep the local ticket scalper in gold chains and stream of musical development. "Magical silk shirts and cheap cigars. So this is going to World," for instance, deploys apaintbox of stu- be an unqualified rave, right? Well. .. dio wizardry to enhance alyric themed on the Human Touch and Lucky Town are the first shifting nature of inner space as subtly as Penn Springsteen albums that leave me flat. And very, & Teller sometimes utilize technology; their very bummed. Iknow for afact that there are introspective set-piece involving ashadow adozen songs Bruce left off Born in the USA that screen and agradually depetalled flower pro- are better than anything here. Every cut sounds vides the same transcendent representation of like aknock-'em-off-in-45-minutes first draft, artifice co-opted as atool in the service of art. but I'm not sure ablue pencil is the answer. In addition to the impeccable musicianship There are 24 songs on these two records and (Mysterio fields McCulloch's now-regular band) 24 about Bruce Springsteen. About the prob- and strong tunes, the album is as compelling lems of rock stardom, the problems of too as ahigh-wire act. The activity is simple, much success, the problems of divorcing your stripped-down, focused—and the artist's skill model wife and marrying your backup singer. is therefore very, very important—so in the end, There's nothing here about the other guy. because it's hard to say FOR SURE what any Nobody talks about it much, but Springsteen given song is about for fear of dissecting the has always written in character. In real life, butterfly, what Mysterio does is bind audience Bruce has always been alittle smarter, alittle and performer together in acommonly shared better off, alittle more in control than the hard experience Like great theater, or asplendid live guys in his songs, but he was able to climb performance, both content and technique will inside their skins for three minutes. With yield to analysis, but here Irecommend enjoy- remarkable results. Bruce may have IClingered ing the show. his way out of 'Nam, but he was able to pull off And because McCulloch is currently in an "Born in the USA." He's no laid-off steelwor- intimate and inquiring frame of mind (the ker, but he pulled off "My Hometown" He's no album is based on his recent acoustic sets per- mass murderer, but he pulled off "Nebraska!' formed in small club venues), the experience That ability to find the common ground is mystical; the content of any particular between Regular Joe and Joe College has always track—while aconstant joy to hear—is rarely been Springsteen's ace in the hole, and maybe expressed directly, or completely, but like that he was able to hold on to it for longer than we early Ingmar Bergman film about amagical had any right to expect. But now he's Beverly circus, Sawdust and Tinsel, the portent slides Hills Bruce, and when he tries to relate the real elliptically, ineluctably, into one's being. Yes, world of Desert Storm and drive-by shootings he does aLeonard Cohen cover ("Lover Lover to his cushy California Dreaming on asong like Lover," and, in common with the best coverers "Souls of the Departed," it's not profound, just of Leonard Cohen, like Jennifer Warnes, contrived. And Ithink even Bruce realizes just delivers amuch more personal and wryly how poorly crafted these songs are. He's acceptable interpretation of the song than the reverted back to his trademark "Bob Dylan writer ever could), but the album is hardly doing Mitch Ryder" vocals. You can't make out about tragedy. Like aBergman comedy or a aword without alyric sheet, and damn if you Robertson Davies trilogy, it's about growth. couldn't break afingernail prying the darn Mysterio isn't apop response to Parsifal, but thing out of the jewelbox. in terms of content and implementation, it's at Just how bad is it? The best song on either the very top of what's out there The better your of the two albums is probably "57 Channels," sound system (Henry Priestman's program- and it's about cable TV. It's the only song of 198 STEREOPHILE, AUGUST 1992 .
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