Word: angstful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...evidence on Jagged LittlePill that Alanis could jump musical genreboundaries. In fact, the debut album was sooverwhelmingly popular because all eleven tracksseemed to flow out of each other without theslightest resistance or change. But SFIJhas major surprises in store. Can you imagine howAlanis Morissette--supposed queen of angst--wouldsound tackling R&B soft ballads, or even "dancey"techno? Not only is she versatile enough toexperiment within these genres, but she is alsocapable of combining them to create genre-bustingnew sounds...
...songs do vary quite a bit--songwriter Martin Gore is a whiz at varying themes. In one two-disc set we have: moody angst, angry angst, depressed angst, hopeless angst, lusty angst and the ever-popular violent angst. Yes, violent--most of Depeche Mode's songs are depressing, but one song, "Stripped," is fiercely so. In "Stripped," Gore seems to have taken a cue from Trent Reznor, and has penned such harsh lyrics as "Let me see you stripped down to the bone" and "Let me hear you crying just for me." Didn't know Depeche Mode...
...when you couldn't turn on MTV without seeing Juliana Hatfield's face. Whether it was Beavis and Butthead commenting on her masochistic video for "What A Life," her 1993 "buzz track" for the scathing "My Sister" or her turn as a homeless angel on everybody's favorite teen-angst drama My So-Called Life, Juliana was a pervasive presence on the airwaves. Add in hot rumors about her relationship with cuter-than-thou Lemonhead Evan Dando and also her supposed virginity, and Juliana was prime Kurt Loder fodder...
Lucas' "other stuff" gives the album its edge with many high-energy melodies accompanied by his driving voice. At live performances, equipped with a guitar with bass pickups on the low strings, Lucas creates an intense atmosphere that brings back the glory days of shallow teen angst...
Indeed, in decades and centuries past, as newfangled privacy made personal and professional transgressions more feasible, a compensating deterrent was the sense that somewhere out there, your footsteps were recorded and any misstep could come back to haunt you. Now, through the magic of technology, agnostics can share this angst...