Word: downbeat
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...like a remix. It’s a remix of all of Beck’s “Midnite Vultures”-era whisper-funk.“Guerolito” isn’t a bad listen, per se. Most of the vocal tracks remain untouched, the downbeat songs are still downbeat, and the upbeat songs are still upbeat. If you want to have some weird fever-dream version of “Guero” to listen to, put the disc on. Otherwise, let’s leave the cut-and-paste reinvention to its mainstream master...
...Iraqis were interviewed in person in October and November, also showed Iraqis overall to be fairly confident about the future. Not surprisingly, however, the numbers varied dramatically from region to region. Results in areas dominated by Sunnis, who were forced from power after Saddam's fall, were relentlessly downbeat: only 25% said life is better since the war began, and just 21% said they feel very safe in their neighborhoods. In Shi'ite regions, 59% said life is better since the war started, and 82% characterized their neighborhoods as very safe...
...During high school he discovers both a passion for jazz and a capacity for critical analysis. So, while toiling away at such unchallenging jobs as playground supervisor, beer inspector and file clerk, Pekar finds his self respect through writing about jazz for such publications as The Jazz Review and Downbeat. Later, of course, he also begins working in comix, a move he goes into briefly at the end. By the time it concludes, The Quitter will have you engrossed by its unpretentious and penetrating examination of the author's experience as a first-generation American, and, in an unexpected...
...1960s rock hit, one of dozens written by Ellie Greenwich, mostly with her then husband Jeff Barry. The book, concocted by a committee that clearly never arrived at any binding resolutions, seems unable to settle on whether it should showcase those mostly upbeat anthems or chronicle the composers' mostly downbeat lives. The songs are treated with an awkward mix of reverence and mockery; the lives are reduced to cartoons. Singer Darlene Love, a veteran of Greenwich's heyday, announces at the outset that she is entitled to recount the story because she was part of it; but thereafter...
...came along and made sexual menace the new code of behavior. With Bob Dylan, nobody was a singer any more; now they were artists. And to create, artists have to feel the pain. They?d have cut off their ears if they didn?t need them to hear the downbeat...