Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...perfectly frank and forthright, we did despair. At times, we sobbed out loud. We tried to distract ourselves by going to fancy corporate affairs, but got kicked out for throwing croutons and shouting obscenities...
...swum..." There's also a incongruously, startlingly cool falsetto bridge where head Egg Andrew Beaujon sounds exactly like Prince (with a temporarily funked-up backbeat to match). "Why Am I So Tired All the Time?" and "Evanston, IL" are quiet, slowly oscillating incarnations of post-teenage despair, as if a male lounge-jazz singer were suddenly infused with the authentic spirit of the late Joy Division. "Conchita," which I think is a plain old love song (though it's real hard to tell), does all the work of a classic Tin Pan Alley composition on only two chords...
Local folk and bluegrass freaks who missed Friday's show should not despair: this spring's folk lineup features a suprising number of worldclass masters. This year's Women in Folk Rock show at the Somerville Theater is March 12, and Northern Lights will be playing April 30 along with The Austin Lounge Lizards and Ranch Romance, also at the Somerville...
Ayckbourn unleashes dragons of despair in Wildest Dreams...
...better shot, convention holds, if they are boy toys with cute, catchy names like . . . Madonna. NdegeOcello spent two years trying to interest record companies in her iconoclastic music, a shotgun marriage of funk, jazz, hip-hop and angry poetry that she calls "brokenhearted revolutionary love songs." Finally, in despair and ready to enroll in barber school, she got a phone call, and a record deal, rom the head of Maverick, who happens to be . . . Madonna...