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MARIA McKEE's Life is Sweet: I’m Not Listening

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Wednesday, 18 August 2010. I’m Not Listening. O, the musical that Maria McKee never wrote continues apace with its second extract, as I’m Not Listening. Appears to offer us a girl who, subjected to endless bullying, plots her deadly revenge. As with Absolutely Barking Stars. I’m Not Listening. You can practically see our protagonist lurking, knife in hand, behind some oak door, just waiting for the time of vengeance. 8217;s “heroine”, I defy anyone to tell me I’m wrong. Posted by The Cryptic Critic.

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MARIA McKEE's Life is Sweet: Smarter

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Monday, 16 August 2010. S a lyricist Maria McKee’s always had a touch of cynical but humane wit about her and that shows through no more strongly on Life is Sweet. Than on track six - Smarter. As she gives us the tale of a girl who, when confronted by a string of truly remarkable events, including an encounter with Jesus, remains resolutely unimpressed, perhaps echoing the Peggy Lee song Is That All There Is? As well as injecting a touch of dry humour into Life is Sweet, Smarter. You might also like:.

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MARIA McKEE's Life is Sweet: Life is Sweet/Afterlife

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Wednesday, 11 August 2010. Isn’t the best song on the album it gives its name to. For me, that’s between Absolutely Barking Stars. And I’m Awake. But it is one of its best songs and, in retrospect its greatest achievement; like A Day in the Life. Standing outside the album while pulling together its strands to neatly tie off what it makes into a unified whole. Is one of only two songs on the album to be sung by a character who isn’t the subject of that song. The other being Smarter. You might also like:.

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MARIA McKEE's Life is Sweet: Human

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Friday, 13 August 2010. F there’s one song on the album that Life is Sweet. Could live without, it’s track nine - Human. Which, it should be acknowledged, comes dangerously close to being a dirge. Lyrically, Human. Also has more than a hint of sixth-form poetry about it. 1996 sees McKee at the height of her powers, and so it’s not an out-and-out bad song but nor is it anywhere near as good as the rest of Life is Sweet. And could probably have benefited from a middle eight to break up its intense monotony.

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Again With the Comics: Award!

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Again With the Comics. Thursday, April 29, 2010. I got an award! Thanks to longtime virtual chum Joe Bloke of. Grantbridge Street and Other Misadventures. For the Kreativ Blogger award! It's going on my mantel next to my Dardos Award. My Nobel Peace Prize, my Oscar, and my Cable ACE award. Check out his ripping good blog while you're at it. For one thing, it has more pictures of sexy babes (. Fit birds" as they call 'em across the pond. So, a little more than a month later, I get a second. TRULY GONE and...

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MARIA McKEE's Life is Sweet: Everybody

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Tuesday, 17 August 2010. F one of the complaints about Life is Sweet. Is its lack of catchy tunes when compared to previous McKee efforts, the album’s fifth track Everybody. Without ever imitating it. As very much an album of its time, following in the wake of such singers as Alanis Morissette but, right here, the song’s (and presumably Maria’s) 1960s’ influences are impossible to ignore. To my knowledge Everybody. As a single leaves you in no doubt that, when it came to the commercial failure of Life is...

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MARIA McKEE's Life is Sweet: Absolutely Barking Stars

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Thursday, 19 August 2010. Here are two songs on Maria McKee’s Life is Sweet. That sound like they’ve been drafted in from a demented but kitchen-sink musical. Absolutely Barking Stars. Is the first of them as McKee gives us the tale of a woman with a split personality who ultimately comes to embrace her internal “twin”. While most complaints about Life is Sweet. Also getting a run out is her guitar playing which, as before, is raw and frenetic but this time carrying strong echoes of Queen. Ultimately, fo...

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MARIA McKEE's Life is Sweet: Maria McKee - Life is Sweet. An introduction

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Sunday, 22 August 2010. Maria McKee - Life is Sweet. An introduction. First became aware of Maria McKee sometime around the Spring of 1993 when I saw the video for her not-so-hit single I’m Gonna Soothe You. On ITV’s The Chart Show. I have to admit, being the naive young thing I was, I was more taken with her happy smile and the frisky snails than the record itself. It was only later, when I heard the same song on the radio, that I noticed the ex-Lone Justice singer had a voice. I mean, she really. Still...

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MARIA McKEE's Life is Sweet: Carried

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Thursday, 12 August 2010. 8217;s tenth offering suffers from its placement. After the less than nimble Human. The album’s crying out for an injection of pace. Instead we get the distinctly quiet and inward looking Carried. On top of that, Carried. S references to multiple personality disorder, self harm and religious obsession are already over-familiar from previous tracks, making it feel like McKee’s starting to repeat herself. Might be better appreciated in its own right. Posted by The Cryptic Critic.