Word: balladic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...classic--lean, smart and at times jazzy. His new album, I Am... (Columbia), aims even higher: the songs are grander, more aggressive, more cinematic. Several top pop performers stop by for duets, including Puff Daddy (on the booming Hate Me Now), hip-hop-soul singer Aaliyah (on the ballad You Won't See Me Tonight) and gangsta rapper DMX (on the rough-riding Life Is What You Make...
...album is unfocused and fuzzy. Reportedly, some of this album was inspired by lead singer Damon Albarn's breakup with his longtime girlfriend, Justine Frischmann of the group Elastica. "It's over--I knew it would end this way," go the lyrics of one song, the bruised ballad No Distance Left to Run. This album's vision is clouded by pain. The future usually looks bleak after a breakup...
Time for the "Song Styles" round on Whose Line Is It Anyway?, in which a panelist must invent a song about a member of the studio audience. Tonight's subject is named (just try rhyming this!) Niroshi; and the tune must be a rock love ballad. Yet panelist Brad Sherwood hardly breaks a sweat as he quick-composes a plaintively catchy melody and croons lyrics made up on the spot. He'll take his beloved Niroshi to "the Rive Gau-shi," where they'll "cook some brio-shi," and across "the Pacific O-shi" to "put on some suntan...
With a nod to Radiohead here and to Sunny Day Real Estate there, The Sheila Divine's nine-song set began and ended in sweetness. They started the evening with "The Amendment," a precious ballad that allowed Perrino a warm up before exploding into the kind of fervor needed for the later "Modern Log" and "Opportune Moment." Except for the ballad, the songs were similar in form; they began with a Belle and Sebastian like delicacy and built up to a passionate central moment that belied the simplicity of the band's instruments (drummer Shawn Sears plays only a bass...
...Berg, the singer/songwriter] writes most of the material. He always does it with an acoustic guitar. They're almost always really slow songs. He comes with the songs to rehearsal, and we try to arrange them, pull up the tempo a bit. "If You were Here" was originally a ballad, really cheesy...