Word: decibels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...departed to create Sebadoh) he still gets the same screamed requests for the same four or five songs every set he plays. Although it must be a huge responsibility to be credited as one of the fathers of alternative rock, Mascis manages to keep churning out the high decibel hits while maintaining the slackjawed public image that made indie loserhood marketable in the first place...
...been able to stop the station's rotation, they hadn't been able to point it toward anything useful. With the solar panels still in shadow, the cabin lights and instrument panels went dead, and the fans and pumps that gave the spacecraft the atmosphere of a low-decibel boiler room fell silent. Huddling together in the main module, Tsibliyev, Lazutkin and Foale spent a few serene hours watching Earth roll silently by. All that disturbed their reverie was the periodic waving of flight plans about in order to fan away their exhaled carbon dioxide, which the ship's ventilators...
...least, smooth romantic ballads. Rap, often misogynistic, generally has little use for romance, but LL found a way to make it work, and it became his signature. In fact, his initials actually stand for Ladies Love Cool James. Although he'll probably always be remembered for high-decibel party hits like 1985's I Can't Live Without My Radio, three of his biggest smashes--I Need Love (1987), Around the Way Girl (1990) and Hey Lover (1996)--are romantic odes that galvanized his female audience and revealed a sentimental side that most rappers dared not show...
...adore the "real fruit chunks." I had read only one chapter of Bastard Out of Carolina, and the protagonist hadn't even finished sketching out her family history. The impending return of my cousins from work buzzed around my head like an increasingly angered insect, steadily rising in decibel. But the pleasures alone-ness had brought to me over that short afternoon, ephemeral as they may have been, had been a soothing balm for my raw and irritated nerves. To be able to select a room in which to recline while listening to the cheep of birds carried with...
...unnecessary. There were injustices that needed to be redressed and resistance to doing so, as the book acknowledges. But it also paints a vision of racial progress in America that we have seldom seen. Blacks have not advanced by being passive recipients of government largesse or by high-decibel rhetoric. Most have made money the old-fashioned way: they have earned...