Word: albums
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Monkeypuzzle, the first nationally released album of the band Baby Ray, will hit store shelves Tuesday. Frontman Erich M. Groat, who wrote the music on the CD, is also an associate in linguistics at the Extension School and a visiting assistant professor of linguistics at the City University of New York...
...song album, described by band manager Judy Collins as "catchy, alternative pop," is the first of four Baby Ray is scheduled to make with the New York indie label Thirsty Ear Records...
First, multimedia. As I write this column, I'm listening to a streaming audio version of a Raekwon album I found at www.broadcast.com. With products such as RealPlayer, people can listen to radio stations and watch television programming across the world with steadily improving quality. Yes, you too can listen to KOKL in bustling Okmulgee, Oklahoma...
Rock drummers are like car tires: they're regularly replaced, but you won't get far if you're missing one. Up is R.E.M.'s first album since the band's longtime drummer, Bill Berry, left the group; his absence is present on more than a few tracks. The remaining three members try to make do with drum machines, but the results often lack kick. Nonetheless, singer Michael Stipe is in fine form, and his lyrics are typically haunting and nuanced (a complete lyric sheet is included for the first time). The focus here is on delicately constructed ballads...
...falseness of big-city life in That Says It All. It's no surprise that he intends to avoid being trapped in lightweight pop: he's 28 and wants a long career. But Humming's dark overhang of melancholy and shortage of buoyant tunes make this just a good album, when there may have been a great one waiting just one hook away...