Word: cools
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...roommate was very cool about it," Hight says. "He was just like, `Hey,' but the women seemed a little freaked out and they slammed the door shut. It wasn't as bad as it could have been-no one was fully nude or anything...
...capturing the zeitgeist. Truth be told, we always did grin at that line about him being a loser and he always had been something of a likable maverick. His first album, Mellow Gold, introduced his sound: blending rural rockabilly and urban jangle into a casual aesthetic of sloppy cool. Mixing old school rap styling with twangy roots rock sounds, and fusing it all to an lo-fi punk philosophy, Beck wandered into the limelight as the ultimate slacker geek, announcing his own cheerful uselessness. His clueless sound had a certain novelty appeal, but he seemed less like a suave rock...
...roots rock, old-school rap, nonsense lyrics--but suddenly they sounded compatible, credible and organic. The self-proclaimed loser was suddenly "the enchanting wizard of rhythm," devouring and reinventing 50 years of American pop music in one democratic bite. If Beck had lassoed the presumed spirit of Generation-X cool with his way-ward loser persona, the massive sound collage of Odelay put Beck even a step ahead of the zeitgeist. This was the sound of the future--just like the past, only hipper, more eclectic and with even more banjos...
...When I debate, I want you to get angry, I want you to lose your cool. When you do, you look like a fool. Unfortunately, that happened to both candidates last night," he said...
...from the longtime friendship of Liam Lynch and Matt Crocco, two childhood friends from Nashville who, while in different colleges, used the voices on each other's answering machines. Now struggling musicians with radically divergent musical tastes, they collaborate on this post-Beavis mockery of the future of America. Cool...