Word: beachã
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...Long Beach??s Ugly Duckling, who opened the show, only managed to worsen my expectations. These guys exemplified purist hip-hop’s worst qualities—a formulaic, unexciting musical aesthetic of mediocre loops and scratches, paired with uncharismatic M.C.s who, with their “clever” yet predictable punchline lyrics, ended up saying as little as any “thug kna’a mean?” gangsta rapper. Occasionally taking breaks from their set for some rather awkward sketches, lame jokes and clichéd sermons on the real meaning...
...those artists (“They Don’t Know,” Tracey Ullman’s musical hit of the 80s, is a cover of a MacColl song, as is the Lemonheads’ B-side “He’s on the Beach??). While some press releases for the album have called her a folkie, it wouldn’t be right to lump the versatile MacColl into the cliche of the female folk singer-songwriter; Tropical Brainstorm is Latin-inspired, she’s written songs with Johnny Marr...