Natalie Merchant has her own prosaic prosody, with off-kilter guitar accentuating its eccentric undertow. The whole second side makes politics not love, and sometimes--like when the lottery-playing mom of "Dust Bowl" rubs her fevered youngest down with rubbing alcohol--she brings you there. But somehow I knew that when she got down to cases she'd still be a fuzzy-wuzzy. This is a woman whose song about Africa (called "Hateful Hate," now there's a resonant phrase) brushes by slavery on its way to elephanticide and ends up condemning "curiosity"--again and again. No wonder she won't listen to "common sense firm arguments." B-
>>127730222Literal lesbian music. Wonder is a good song though.
>>127730237>Literal lesbian musicso was Joan Jett, but she was more fun
>>127730222>WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE POOR CUTE WIDDLE ANIMALSyep it's a white woman
>>127730222Is 10,000 maniacs good? I only know their cover of More Than This.
>>127733339it's obnoxious 80s art ho music
>>127733339My dad likes them
