Word: chorused
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...arrangements of the first three songs make an immediate musical impression. On "Earth Died Screaming," Waits sings in a low grinding voice until the chorus when he shifts to a high register and screams "And the earth died screaming/While I lay dreaming of you." The effect is electric...
...haunting, subdued bass line that introduces Lunapark, Luna2's excellent debut record, establishes a unique tone--relaxed but urgent, lazy but occasionally frenetic--that persists through 12 songs. The first of those, the endearing "Slide," breaks into a slightly askew half-speed aquatic-guitar trip with a catchy chorus and lyrics of subtle wit. "You can never give/ The finger to the blind," singer-guitarist Dean Wareham sings after an opening guitar solo, "Sometimes I act so stupid/ But you never seem to mind...
...smoothest the group's sound gets is in the first single on the album, "Sad New Day." Acoustic guitars accompany tepid raps and a silly chorus...
...record $1.025 billion in fines and damages imposed on Exxon by a federal judge last October should have provided the state and federal governments with an extraordinary opportunity to take further protective measures, assess remaining problems and mollify resentful citizens. Instead, the deal has touched off a chorus of outrage from residents and environmentalists, who wanted a minimum of $2 billion, and has ignited a fierce debate over how best to spend the sum. Says biologist Rick Steiner of the University of Alaska: "The last thing we want to see out of this is a stack of studies, symposia...
...joined them on stage to play "Circuits." The former guitarist, who received his doctorate at Harvard and now teaches classics at Bryn Mawr, looked scholarly but showed he hasn't lost his edge. They ended their set with a raucous rendition of "Dead Wrong," with audience members shouting the chorus. Spraying the audience with champagne during an encore, the bandmembers walked off the stage and into the (post-punk) history books...