Spalding Gray - It's a Slippery Slope
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Artist: Spalding GrayEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1998-05-19
Music Label: Polygram Records
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- It's a Slippery Slope
Music reviews of It's a Slippery Slope
Music Review: Not as good as Monster in a Box
Rating: 3 Stars
If you are searching for a decent Spaulding Gray recording, try "Monster in a Box". "It's a Slippery Slope" is recorded mostly in a studio. At some points in the dialogue, Mr. Gray inserts the live version of the monologue. You realize when this occurs that his cadence of speech actually changes in front of a live audience. He leaves spaces to allow for the audience laughter and reaction and the effect is noticeable. He is much more interesting playing to an audience. "Monster in a Box" was recorded entirely in front of an audience and it is excellent. Mr. Gray's new material is interesting, but the delivery of the audio in a studio makes it somewhat boring.
Description of It's a Slippery Slope
The middle-aged master of the neurotic, witty, perambulating monologue nearly makes his midlife crisis of jock-dude-ness interesting on Slippery Slope. It starts out interesting enough, with Gray turning 52 and meditating on his mortality, noting that his mother had killed herself at that age. Gray mixes such heavy meditations with the little funny details of life, keenly describing the speech patterns of Jamaican drug dealers in Washington Square Park or how the well-to-do dressed in their Aspen-ski-resort best resemble "expensive, brightly colored Easter eggs." But halfway through, Slippery Slope becomes like a Robert Bly special on ESPN starring Woody Allen, as Gray croons about the exhilarations of skiing. Perhaps, like dreams, other people's sports stories--even existential sports stories--are best shared only with diaries, close friends, and analysts. James Taylor's sound effects and crummy-music-laden production do nothing to elevate this work to the level of Gray's other fine pieces, which include Monster in a Box and Gray's Anatomy. --Mike McGonigalGeneral CDs
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