The Arcade Fire, “Funeral”The Arcade Fire’s debut “Funeral” has actually been out for over a month, but because it was initially devoured so rapidly, it’s only now widely available. (Think Lorretta Lynn’s “The Pill” or George Jones’s “Good Year For the Roses.”) Given his emotive, Merle Haggard-like baritone, in Worley’s case this seems particularly sad. It’s just that, more and more, such weary refrains are standing in for the gritty, realistic view of domesticity that Nashville songwriters were once famous for. Not that there’s anything wrong with singing about these things. Over a rolling, banjo-driven backing track, Worley recounts a home life that’s “crazy, tragic, sometimes almost magic.” In the meantime, he works in references to drinking, church, family dinner, mom, football, a domestic disturbance and a cousin fighting overseas (fortunately, “Iraq” rhymes with “make it back”). ![]() The record’s opening track, “Awful, Beautiful Life,” is typical. Worley’s latest, self-titled recording avoids such obvious pandering but does little to elevate itself above the Music Row pack, which, it seems, is becoming increasingly dependent on a short-list of themes. However, its patriotic follow-up, “Have You Forgotten?” led to concerns that the Tennessee native was a little too eager to capitalize on post 9-11 successes by Alan Jackson and Toby Keith. Ron Harrisĭarryl Worley rode to the top of the country charts on the strength of 2001’s “I Miss My Friend,” a record considered to be a fresh breath of honky-tonk air amid a dearth of pop-country sound-alikes. The DualDisc technology may need some serious refining if it’s going to stay around and be worth an extra dollar or two. ![]() It’s nowhere near the usual DVD video quality and it makes one wonder if there’s actually enough information storage space on the DVD side of the DualDisc for full resolution DVD video, or whether this is a new format that’s better suited for the desktop only - or the dustbin. It looks to be a matter of video compression by the appearance of the fuzzy footage. ![]() It’s neat - in theory - that you could throw disc this in your computer or DVD player (or Xbox even.) and listen to the CD on one side, then flip it over and check out the DVD video action.īut there’s a big problem.
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