Word: angstful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Russia angst is one of the simple pleasures of life. But these days it is the one item in oversupply. According to a report by the Cherepovets Regional Scientific Methodological Center for the Study of Social Problems, 80% of the residents of the city, about 230 miles north of Moscow, are in a constant state of heightened irritability. The proportion experiencing alarm and depression is 70%; agitation and anxiety for no clear reason, 61%; a sense that life is meaningless, 42%. Thoughts of suicide have increased 20-fold. It might be called the "inside story" of reform...
Lodge subtly and humorously paints the characters in Paradise News. Particularly, the minor characters manage to achieve some sort of depth within the limited scope of their roles in the book. Harold Best's victimized angst and Brian Everthorpe's jocular callousness escape being caricatures without losing humor...
Basically, Live is four fresh-faced guys up there on stage, blasting music wholeheartedly to their peers. They leap before they look, with a combination of intensity and vulnerabity that sends your mind reeling back to the high drama of teen angst. When Kowalcyzk sings, "Talk to me, talk to me now/Hey man you're all that I have," it's an indescribably seductive appeal to the crowd. In the middle of Live's hit single, "Operation Spirit," Kowalcyzk exhorts the audience to join in, "C'mon, you're all young. You don't have that many opinions yet! Feel...
...first song on the album, "Teen Angst (What the World Needs Now)," is getting a fair amount of airplay on progressive radio stations, and for good reason. The simple message of the song. David Lowery's passionate vocal performance and Johnny Hickman's solid lead guitar make for a great pop tune. With a chorus like "What the world needs now is a new Frank Sinatra, so I can get you in bed/What the world needs now is another folk singer like I need a hole in my head," "Teen Angst" bares it all in the name of rock...
Boston-area trio Buffalo Tom shoots and scores with its major-label release Let Me Come Over. From start of finish, the album is an intense musical experience. Through 13 songs, the energy level never lets down once. The group takes its music seriously, but avoids self-indulgence and angst. This is the music that college radio was meant to play, brash and unpretentious...