Word: anguishingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Army seized from his own home duringtheir round-up. I put myself in his son's placeand imagined my father as Frank--both came to thiscountry 20 years ago, both became naturalizedcitizens and both made their careers in theservice of others. My eyes began to tear as Iimagined the anguish my own father would feelknowing that his son was locked behind achain-link fence simply because he wasn't born inAmerica...
However, any omissions are excused by the final two tracks. The fragile "All I Want Is You" stretches on for over six minutes, prolonging the anguish set forth by Bono's mournful yet strong vocals and Edge's subtle guitar playing. The song crescendos to a wailing, yearning climax and then fades away gradually. There is silence for a few minutes, and then the brittle piano chords of "October" start. Sparse and lonely, like a barren tree in winter, "October" is U2 at its finest, displaying some of the strongest emotions on the album with the simplest, minimalist music...
Strong's own book stems from an article of the same name which she wrote in 1993. She shows all the marks of a good journalist; she clearly knows her topic, and writes about it with ease. She manages to capture the pain and anguish that self-mutilators feel before they cut themselves, and the release and calm that they feel afterwards...
...song about a troubled friend who was shot dead in Austin. In contrast to her album, where Williams drunkenly drawls out the lyrics, vividly mirroring the sloshing of her friend's life, Williams performed a rather toned-down version. But she seemed more contemplative, more reflective. After the awkward anguish of Angel," Williams was finally ready to actively reveal her true self. Her words and lyrics were woven so seamlessly with the subdued melody of "Greenville": "You're not my man," she sights, "Go back to Greenville." Here she silently commanded, almost begging--eyes sparkling with emotion--even more tremulous...
...towards surprising revelations and explorations of the dark sides of love and politics; he even cited Bacharach and David as influences on his post-punk swaggering forays into murky emotions. Like Bacharach, Costello composes music that can quiver like shifting sands, leaning gently into a tremor of eloquence and anguish...