Word: almost
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they are pretentious. Yes, they have undergone almost as many cast changes as Menudo. Nevertheless, Dream Theater continues to maintain a firm and compelling grip on mainstream progressive-rock/metal since Awake, their breakthrough album. Scenes from a Memory, their eighth record, demonstrates the band's relentless ability to evolve despite holding onto many elements of the same old same old: heavy riffs, ambitious solos, and tender moments disintegrated by explosions of prog power. The album unabashedly flaunts its rock theatrics, with tracks divided into acts and scene. There's even a cast of characters. Although some tracks like "Overture...
...midst of 20th-century pop culture mania, when sincerity in music is at an all-time low, it's almost like a breath of fresh air when we encounter seriousness in modern music. We're baffled by a singer who believes there is truth in what she sings. We are utterly mystified when confronted with a theme other than teen euphoria or angst. And so Janice Robinson's debut album, The Color Within Me, may well be, unabashedly, the subject of our confusion. Robinson's rock/pop, soul/gospel/funk roots fuse together to produce a sound that blends the mainstream appeal...
...promising. The film is set in 1916, before war-weariness had begun to be epidemic among troops and their homelands. The Germans shoot down a French reconnaissance plane that holds two of the movie's main characters, Lieutenant Marechal (Jean Gabin) and Captain de Boeldieu (Pierre Fresnay). The film almost prompts laughter, for Erich von Stroheim's Captain von Rauffenstein invites the captured parties for a meal before sending them off to a prison camp...
...etiquette of war is entirely foreign to the modern viewer; for the enemy to eat lunch with his victims almost borders on the ridiculous. Von Stroheim, normally in the position of director, pleasant surprises in the role of a stiff captain serving the German Imperial Army...
...inmates' cheerful attitude is further bolstered with Rosenthal's delicious care packages sent from his home in France. This relatively happy image of prison camp is almost insulting to the memory of those who perished in the holocaust and other prison camps...