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They also wrote Stacy's Mom. The song fits the band's general aesthetic--it's not a total sellout--but the chorus ("Stacy's mom has got it going on") is less nuanced than its best work. When Fountains of Wayne handed over the album to A.-and-R. man Steve Greenberg, who had previously signed Hanson and the Baha Men, he pushed them to make Stacy's Mom the lead single...
...1980s, few Japanese ever claimed that they had discovered a set of eternal truths of universal application. In any case, what would the texts of Japanese modernity have been - The instructions for a karaoke machine? Europeans, too, lack the inspiring symbols with which American history is littered. The Prisoners' Chorus from Fidelio is no match for the Declaration of Independence...
...sensitive in its attention to the rest of the cast. Director Brian R. Fairley ’05 put in delightfully sleazy and callous appearances as Menelaos and Agamemnon, providing necessary comic contrast in the midst of the intense melodrama. Kudos, too, to the visually and aurally interesting chorus work of Veronica T. Golin ’07 and Susan C. Merenda ’07. Indeed, the entire cast’s willingness to take their acting to the physical level was extremely commendable. Currun Singh ’07, as Odysseus, seemed bland and unexciting early...
...religious version of Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head is the album's signature triumph. It's not just that Isley invents powerful high notes where previously there was just empty space, but that he instinctively knows which lyrics matter, repeating "On my head, on my head" during the chorus until the song feels like a gospel ballad. Never mind that Bacharach - who conducted the orchestra - inserts one of his signature flugelhorn solos into the bridge; Raindrops is Isley's song now. Cyndi Lauper doesn't have Isley's voice - or anybody's voice - and the thought of her attacking...
...sensitive in its attention to the rest of the cast. Director Brian R. Fairley ’05 put in delightfully sleazy and callous appearances as Menelaos and Agamemnon, providing necessary comic contrast in the midst of the intense melodrama. Kudos, too, to the visually and aurally interesting chorus work of Veronica T. Golin ’07 and Susan C. Merenda ’07. Indeed, the entire cast’s willingness to take their acting to the physical level was extremely commendable. Currun Singh ’07, as Odysseus, seemed bland and unexciting early...