Word: joys
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Metropolis has potential (3 bars, lots of room) if you're into the slick '90s look. But the sweat and joy factors were low on opening night...
...Cranes do not list the lyrics to their new album Wings of Joy. Perhaps lyricist Alison Shaw does not wish to make her personal thoughts known to the listener, which would also explain the virtual incomprehensibility of her soft, high vocals. Or maybe she really isn't saying anything after...
Hailing from southern England, this new alternative band has created music that could be somewhat intriguing if it were not so infuriating and utterly meaningless. Shaw's vocals complement the mysterious sound of Wings of Joy, but she uses her voice only to blend with the menacing guitars and hypnotic rhythm of piano and drums. The mood is eerie, and sounds unique. But the words, the thoughts and the meaning simply fade away into a perverse swirl of annoying sound. This album is mood music for masochists...
...leaving a foot of the white stuff on Val d'Isere. The next day, however, dawned guiltless again. The Chinese delegation drank champagne and sang such favorites as Salute the World to ring in the Year of the Monkey. Visitors looked forward to hearing Beethoven's Ode to Joy, which would accompany every Unified Team gold. And the World Sugar Research Conference was taking place in the same mountains -- a non-Olympic event, to be sure, but one that captured perfectly the meaning of the Games: research and hard work in the service of sweetness...
Barry Yourgrau's A Man Jumps Out of an Airplane is one of the most original pieces of fiction that I have ever read. A joy to read--at least when one gets into the style and the mood of the author--and definitely worth the effort...