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...performing on Nickelodeon's children's program You Can't Do That on Television; at 16 she had signed with MCA Records Canada and released her first album, Alanis. That CD and its 1992 follow-up Now Is the Time consisted mostly of Paula Abdul-esque melodies and merciless drum machines--the kind of soulless pop one might play during an aerobic workout on the Love Boat. During this pop-lite phase, Morissette also opened for pseudo-rapper Vanilla Ice in a 1991 concert and appeared with Brat Packish actor Corey Haim in the 1993 Fox-TV comedy Just...
Amos also has begun experimenting with new drum arrangements with Alan Friedman. The quasigrunge/industrial sound of "Professional Widow" has already been compared to the likes of Courtney Love. Her work with percussionist Mino Cinelu and drummer Manu Katche on "Talula" and "In the Springtime of his Voodoo" impresses with its interesting touches...
...second album, Otherness, is a return to the drum machines and synthesizers of the Cocteaus' first albums. Yet in tone, the EP is light-years away from those days of bristling desperation. "Feet Like Fins" is the most egregious track in this regard. It sounds a thousand other New Age tracks -- the silvery synthesizer line sticks to three notes, Fraser keeps to a mere two, and the song contains of the same four measures repeated over and over. "Violaine." the one track on the EP with personality, has its sublime moments. In the chorus, Fraser's voice finally breaks through...
...hovel that their graceful life has such enduring appeal. Nicholas and Alexandra were shutterbugs themselves and kept scrapbooks that record the growth of their pretty children and the family's annual progress through palaces and yachts. The heart of the book is its eloquent detail. The tsarevich's little drum, the tsarina's snowy parasols have the impact of domestic artifacts found in a mummy's tomb, bringing a remote past shockingly alive...
...must keep beating the drum in the campaign to get broad-based support for a more autonomous Brooks House, while taking public steps of rapprochement with the University. Brooks House leaders must keep the following goals clear: the University should not be able to hire or fire PBH staff, affect its fundraising if their capital drives are slow or decide whether or not new programs enter the PBH family...