Word: debut
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...intramural novice, ultimate frisbee would seem to be the perfect debut. Danger is low, team spirit high and probably everyone is there for a sporty study break. Right...
...know, I think they've been distributed very evenly over the last 50 years, or unevenly I should say. I don't know--maybe in 1995 when I got so much attention for the show, Dr. Katz, but it could have been my debut on the Letterman show in 1985--that was very exciting. But Dr. Katz is doing much better than Jonathan Katz ever did in terms of fame...
Tracks starts off intimate and direct: Bruce alone, strumming his guitar and crooning Mary Queen of Arkansas. The original version was featured on his 1973 debut, Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.; the rendition on Tracks is from Springsteen's 1972 audition for the legendary record producer John Hammond. It's an unguarded performance, brimming with innocence and promise. Later, on Tracks, he delivers a fierce, Delta blues-infused performance of Born in the U.S.A. The arena-rock album version was sometimes misinterpreted as a jingoistic anthem, but there's no mistaking the bitterness and disillusionment in this sparer take...
...such younger performers as Chris Whitley and Ben Harper, asks what's worth listening to in record stores these days. You recommend the new Seal album (in fact, you give him your only copy), the sound track to the hip-hop movie Slam and rapper/singer Lauryn Hill's debut album (you point out that like him, she's a Garden State resident...
...debut, Seal, focused on inventive and thoughtful dance-pop and spawned uptempo hits like Crazy and Killer. His second album, also inscrutably titled Seal, offered up intricate pop hymns, such as Kiss from a Rose and Don't Cry. The new album is not a break from his past work but a stately evolution deftly combining the throbbing power of his first album with the smart sophistication of his second. "I wanted to make a more raw record," he says. "Not as produced. I wanted to make sure that it was more open, more from the heart." Human Being...