Word: guitar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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BOSTON--Amid the packed crowds waiting for the train to arrive at T stops throughout the city, impromptu performers and entrepreneurial guitar players set up shop, hoping for coins or song requests...
...spent most of the 1990s trying to dispel that label (and its implied wimpyness) by veering into rough-edged rock. Bury the Hatchet deftly reverses course, scaling back the band's vision from the worldly to the personal and unearthing the contemplative style that got lost in layers of guitar noise. The band has rediscovered where its allure lies: in carefully sculpted songs that aren't too overpowering...
...Fallout," bits and pieces of Tchaickovsky's "Nutcracker" bubble up through a heavy synth and guitar layer, nearly become unlistenable, and are then blown away by a cascading guitar solo as the claustraphobia of the early song gets ripped to shreds. In the epic "Cancer," the "chorus" of the song makes one brilliant but brief appearance in the nine minute song...
...results are promising. In Seven More Minutes, headman Matt Sharp convincingly demonstrates a wealth of creativity and originality underutilized in his subdued role as bassist and back-up vocalist for Weezer. The Rentals' first album, a minimally successful self-titled release, contained the primordial elements of electronically influenced guitar rock in the radio hits "Friends of P." and "Move On" that are fully realized here. Sharps' nonchalant vocals and silly lyrics are melodiously complemented by the omnipresent, wispy voice of Petra, Hayden, creating an eerie, guitar-driven, foot-tapping rock surrealism. Despite losing Pat Wilson, the bald, droky drummer from...
...aesthetically. The opposite happened. Aside from a passing reference to frying UV rays (the ozone is thinning Down Under) and an occasional Aussie accent, I could easily mistake these songs as American. The five bands represented here sound very similar--forceful, loud vocals offset by catchy drum and guitar. There's no refined philosophical system being developed here--this is the "I-don't-give-a-damn" sense of fun that all college students feel (yes, even at Harvard). Epicure's "Airmail" stands out as the best by far. It is softer, slower, more serious, and rather mesmerizing with...