Word: blendings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sick of them, My mother told me what to do today!" Yet behind this repetition, two guitarists piece together a surf-rock riff, while the bass (Amanda Braden) roots the song's fervent movement with hard-driving chords. In "The Phone, the Phone," sisters Lynette and Carla blend two different vocal styles and come up with a wonderfully complementary sound. One sister repeats the chorus as the other sarcastically murmurs, "I'm up here in my room again, listening to my entire record collection...Duran Duran are my only friends...
Plumtree's music, like Anderson's, is not burdened by deep meaning or heavy handed emotions. These music makers instead strive to set free a powerful melody and let it work its magic. Their sophomore production and first full-length record, Mass Teen Fainting, is a blend of potent songs, merging a fifties surf-garage feel with the driving energy of power pop. Their concoction is a Beach-Boys-meets-Shonen-Knife puree, and cocktail leaves the listener with a smile and a tune...
...state, someone not too smart, not too skeptical." When Peter first arrives in Hamburg in 1985, Kramer writes, "He had a little cassette player, tapes by Pink Floyd, Grace Slick, and the Grateful Dead, a filter coffeepot, and two hundred and fifty grams of Jacobs Fein und Mild Guatemala-blend coffee. He had everything he needed until someone came and told him what...
...plot of "Rust" is a blend of familiar elements, invoking by turns Albee, Williams and others. Brad (played by Farnsworth, disguised unsubtly on the program as "Ichabod Crane"), a schlumpy former grad student, is stuck in his childhood home in New Orleans because his selfish siblings refuse to help him take care of their ailing mother. Scott (Jason Chaffin), the older brother, is a smug, cold yuppie; Jane (Sarah Yellen), the sister, is a cruel harpy masquerading as a p.c. environmentalist. Poor old Mom, played by the usually effervescent Shar von Boskirk, has nothing to do but sit center-stage...
Many come for the blend of good service and good food, says self-proclaimed regular Jerry Mellen...