Word: blackly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Black on Black, their new Re-Entry Records release, is plagued by songs which are too slow and too soft. Instead of featuring pounding beats and passionate, driving guitar chords, the tracks on this album are dominated by vocals that are uninteresting and with lyrics which are average at best. The guitar, drums and bass are mixed low in favor of these vocals, which are often made worse by harmonizing more vocals over the original ones. Some tracks from Black on Black, like "Dangerous" and "Sweat," begin promisingly with good guitar intros, but ultimately deteriorate into the predictability and mediocrity...
...smug squat printer? But, no, it isn't just efficiency, isn't it the pre-modern satisfaction of unfamiliar physical immediacy--actually crunching out the letters, tack tack tack, not beholden to mysterious will o' wisp electrons? Why are we so far removed? Do you know how all the black boxes in your world operate...
...Have you heard people say they don't like black-and-white movies? What on earth could they mean by that? Why do I prove literature's equivalence to now? Why aren't we showing now's equivalence with literature, or the past? Do you listen to music at parties, or just recognize it? What if you don't recognize it? Can you dance to anything not four-on-the-floor...
...Lulu, a self-proclaimed "personality" from the free-bimonthly rag Stuff at Night, emceed the evening. Sporting a form-fitting black dress with glittering green styrofoam martini olives in her hair, she announced in her introduction, "My name is Lulu, not olive head...
...appeared that the stars were aligned for the men in orange, blue and black on Tuesday night. When they came back from a five-run first-inning deficit and took it into the tenth, no one in the world thought for a second that the Braves were going to win the game, much less the series...