When I first heard U2’s “The Fly” from their album Achtung Baby, I was ready to embrace this new sound that was rumored to be coming from the band. “The Fly” seemed somewhat like their old music, but more manic, more electronic. But it still had soaring vocals in the chorus, and I held out…
Category: A Second Listen
A Second Listen: The Queen is Dead, The Smiths
There are those who think the Smiths saved rock ‘n’ roll, those who put them up on pedestals as one of the greatest bands of the 1980s and those who worship at the altar of Morrissey and Johnny Marr. I am not one of those people. Like the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin, the Smiths’…