Twist with Chubby Checker 3/11/2003 using the music to hook

using the music to hook in critics just as she's baiting a mass audience with such masterstrokes as "Papa Don't Preach

Bradlee is quite successful in his endeavors

m b v's songwriting doesn't always feel as immediate as before: "only tomorrow" and "new you" are among the tracks that make the most of their poppy structures and Bilinda Butcher's sugared murmurs

I'm a Blur

Twist with Chubby Checker 3/11/2003 using the music to hookListening to Twist With Chubby Checker is similar to listening to a Chuck Berry record after a few minutes, you realize that the songs are just a series of variations on the same chord progressions with different lyrics. However, you also realize that the charisma of the performer is substantial enough to make such an enterprise interesting and, in fact, fun to listen to. Checker's bread and butter number, "The Twist" is likely to be the only song