Word: freshness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with her Joy experience is Elaine Corn, the author of, among other works, 365 Ways to Cook Eggs. She received a phone call from Guarnaschelli, she recalls, saying "she wanted me to do the Joy of Cooking chapter on eggs." Corn agreed to the six-week deadline ("Eggs were fresh on my mind") and shelved other projects. "I worked my butt off on this thing," she says, only to find her work rejected by Guarnaschelli. A few weeks ago, Corn learned that she is listed as a contributor in the new Joy, even though she was paid only a kill...
...Although this nature is not mew to his recordings, it is more obvious on this one because of the number of misses and the expectation that this would be the album for G. Love to firmly establish himself. But let's concentrate on the hits--songs with a startlingly fresh sound and a very natural appeal. These are mostly the tunes written primarily by G. Love himself and performed with the Special Sauce--exactly the formula for the goodness of the first two albums...
That 23-point loss puts increasing pressure on the top returning line of Casson Masters, Scott Bertoli and Jeff Halpern. But, newcomer Benoit Morin, fresh from the junior A program, is projected to be an offensive...
...forms throughout the summer part of the tour, began with an intriguing version of "Mercury" that had Duritz on the piano and Ben Mize on a scaled-down drum kit. Duritz introduced the set saying, "If you make people listen to something in a different way, then it's fresh." He indicated that in performing for VH1's "Storytellers," the band felt that it could speak about the meanings of its songs by playing them in a different...
...Mutilated Lips" is a bit more successful; the ocean imagery is notably entertaining if not more enigmatic ("Mutilated lips give a kiss on the wrist/Of the worm like tips of tentacles expanding/In my mind, I'm fine, accepting only fresh brine"), as distorted vocals play off a mysterious, entrancing groove. The drugged-up atmosphere adds to the impression that Ween spends too much time detached from reality. On the path to songs with music and lyrics that actually coexist peacefully and beautifully, "Ocean Man" is about halfway to triumph. Sedate country-flavored guitar licks and thick, echoing vocals...