Word: lads
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When he was just a ruddy-faced lad newly graduated from Ole Miss, Jim Barksdale applied for work as a salesman for the first monopoly of the info age, IBM. Barksdale had an in: his elder brother and mentor, Jack, was already employed by Big Blue. Alas, the advantage proved to be short-lived. "I don't know if I can have two Barksdales working for me," said the sales manager who interviewed...
Guitarist and other vocalist Mark Roberts thought better, and so started a band with Lewis. Catatonia went on to take Owen Powell on guitar, Paul Jones on bass, an Aled Richards on drums, all of whom are Cardiff cads save the last, who is a Llanelli lad. Their first album Way Beyond Blue came out in 1996 to high praise from critics, but entered the charts as 40. And stayed there. The same year, they re-released their most renowned underground record Bleed, which did not even chart in the top 40. 1997 saw the single...
...Stella, Bassett is a successful 40-year-old stockbroker who meets a hunky lad (Taye Diggs), barely half her age, on the Jamaica vacation she's taken with her pal Delilah (Goldberg). Is it love or just great sex? And how will Stella cope not only with the inevitable gibes from her family back home but with the quibbles in her own suspicious heart...
Another sweet surprise can be found in "Raspberry Swirl," which features a bouncy rhythm and such energy that one would swear Amos and the entire band were doing aerobics while writing it. Amos also displays her stunning vocal abilities in "Liquid Diamonds" and "Northern Lad," in which her trademark in-tune howls echo well enough to send genuine shivers down anyone's back. The fairly upbeat "She's Your Cocaine" may not be anywhere near as lively as the afore-mentioned "Raspberry Swirl," but, despite its title, it remains one of the more cheerful songs on the album...
...never met the lad...