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Hair - The Lonely
- Hair’s “The Lonely” has songs that have both powerful instrumentation and undisguised slight and somber tones. Also, the vocalist’s timbre goes from potent to calming, but either way the lyrics will speak to listeners with their introspective contents.
The first track has resounding piano play and booming drum work. The vocalist muses about an inner quarrel he is waging with such lyrics as, “There’s a storm inside my brain…Just don’t know anymore, do I love some more? There’s a storm my head, pretty soon and I’ll be dead.” His voice has a creepy vibe which only makes the spooky lyrics resonate even further.
The second track has rhythmic drum work as well as prevailing guitar riffs. The melding of these two instruments gives the song a catchy beat. Later on in the song the guitar goes into full-fledged power ballad mode as the vocalist sings, “You’re hot and you’re cold. You’re young and you’re old. You’re inside and you’re out…Its 4 A.M., you’re up and around.” This song is perfect for an insomniac who cannot catch a blink of sleep and feels dissonant emotions.
The third track is the polar opposite of the previous ones. It has stoical acoustic guitar work as the vocalist talks about what he wants to do and go with lines like, “Rollin’ like a stone. That’s what I want…I’d be alright…I’d be tumblin’ tumblin’ tumblin’ tumblin’ tumblin’ down the hills and through the streets. I’d be driftin’ driftin’; driftin’ driftin’ driftin’ through the streams down to the sea.” His voice is very soothing, and this song might be a good one to meditate to after a long day where you just want to kick back and relax.
The fourth track has slight guitar in the background, and the message is about what the vocalist desires but doesn’t think he can acquire: “No, I want what the people want. I want what I can’t have. Somethin’ old… No, I want what the people want. The answers won’t be found from the train…And it comes and it goes.”
Hair’s “The Lonely” has a vocalist whose tone echoes sorrow and despair on certain tracks and on others of merrymaking. The instrumentation gets sparse at times which allows listeners to focus on the lyrics which will make them ponder the album’s true meaning,
Reviewer: Sari N. Kent
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Reviewer's Rating: 8
Reader's Rating: 10.00
Reader's Votes: 1
Added: 17-Jun-2007
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