Word: basses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sean is 22 now, and having taught himself guitar, piano, drums and bass, he makes his solo debut next week with Into the Sun, an album that should lift him from the purgatory of hereditary celebrity and establish him as a promising if not fully matured songwriter. Produced by his girlfriend and roommate, Yuka Honda of the band Cibo Matto, the album explores a single subject: their love affair. This may sound familiar, yet Into the Sun has a sturdy, radiant optimism all its own. Home and Bathtub, two of the finest songs on the record, are typical: Lennon uses...
...just because it opens with an ambitious but maudlin version of Eleanor Rigby (is there such a thing as a non-maudlin Eleanor Rigby? Could one even be possible given the known laws of art?). Recorded with the pianist Kenny Barron and his regular rhythm section (Ray Drummond on bass and Ben Riley on drums), this is such a simple, straight-ahead shot of vocal jazz that it could have been made 40 years ago, and yet it couldn't sound newer. This may be the most vital album you'll hear this year, coursing with a palpable sense...
...raining/Players only love you when they're playing." The Corrs, however, do incorporate the hall-mark of 1990's music. They sing with a dance beat--and prove that not even music mixers consider Fleetwood Mac (like Celine Dion or songs from the Evita soundtrack) sacred from the throbbing bass of dance clubs...
...boredomor depression. Kicking the audience into actionwith a cool pairing of freestyle rap and funk,B-Side infused the Pforzheimer dining hall withmood melody like it had never experienced before.Key to B-Side's performance were the sleekstylings of the Rhodes keyboard player, the punchytones of the upright bass and the drivingexactness of the percussionist, all infused with afreestyle rap intuition that few groups can calltheir...
...first track, it's got an actual melody, and the track itself wouldn't sound out of place on a Porno for Pyros CD. Given Weiland's voracious propensity for aping other musical artists, it then comes as no surprise that Porno for Pyros bassist Martyn LeNoble plays bass on most of the tracks, including this...