Word: fresh
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Murphy gave backup quarterback Brad Wilford oneseries at the end of the first quarter, apparentlyto keep him fresh after the junior had sat theentire game against Princeton...
...hobnobbing with bubbling psychedelic guitars, booming hip-hop tracks and distorted space-age bleeps. Splashed through with enough classic soul samples to put Stax Records back in business, Odelay was a manifesto for eclectic electronica, busting out all over the place with the joy of being retrospective and fresh and whimsical. Odd pieces were all there--funk, jazz, roots rock, old-school rap, nonsense lyrics--but suddenly they sounded compatible, credible and organic. The self-proclaimed loser was suddenly "the enchanting wizard of rhythm," devouring and reinventing 50 years of American pop music in one democratic bite. If Beck...
...slide guitars and synthesizers,rural blues and robotic buzzes. The musicalcanvas, as on Odelay, is rich and broad.Yet, the mellowness of the album dampens theclimate of carefree experimentation struggling toemerge. Even the song titles--"Static," "LazyFlies," "Dead Melodies"--indicate the vibe ofdeflated indolence that restrains the album fromexploding with fresh ideas. Lyrics onMutations exchange the trenchant absurdistinsights of Odelay for a strained maturityand faux wisdom, as when Beck writes, "Doldrumsare pounding/Cheapskates are clowning this town."The belabored cuteness of the imagery and Beck'sstilted delivery lack the authenticity ofOdelay at even its most oblique...
Hovercraft still attempts to keep their sound fresh in each track. The subtlety of variation is completely overshadowed by the overall predictability, despite the intensity and suddenness of the rhythm changes and the unconventional use of sound distortions and samples instead of vocals. At times, the tracks are almost indistinguishable from one another, even in comparison to the most repetitive techno or punk; Hovercraft often makes The Ramones look ingenious. The band must have painstakingly tried to think of new, fresh elements to add to each successive song, but these efforts were unsuccessful...
...solely on their qualifications as Tough Ladies. Thatcher ran rampage through the political, social and economic structures of Britain throughout her rule with little notion of what she was doing. Never a master of realpolitik, and without a Kissinger, she "declared war" on the Irish Republican Army, precipitating a fresh onslaught of terrorist bombings in both Northern Ireland and England. We are still recovering from the radicalization of Irish politics--and the death toll that ensued--that she precipitated...