Word: laid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...machine intact, hoping some other force would providentially get rid of the meddlesome beast. None did. Yet if containment doesn't work very well, no one has come up with a better idea. Europeans advise a "critical dialogue" that would somehow persuade the renegade to mend his ways. Republicans laid out a five-point plan that was meant more to raise the bar on the President for decisive action than it was to offer substantial policy prescriptions...
...newest album, No Code, makes it sound as if they're having a midlife crisis. The songs on the CD flail this way and that, screamingly loud on the vocal-chord-stripping song Lukin, restrained and dreamy on the ballad Off He Goes and fuzzily philosophical on the mostly laid-back number Present Tense. Sonic variety can be a good thing--the Smashing Pumpkins' brilliant double album, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, also veered all over the map--but too few of the songs on the Pearl Jam CD explore the musical possibilities they suggest in any kind...
...areas of command. If Reeve wishes to go forward or backward or to the left or the right or fast or slow, he sips air from or blows air into a plastic straw at varying strengths. When he shifts his sitting angle between straight up and laid back, the chair makes the sound of an old European elevator or a convertible top closing...
...newest album, 'No Code,' sounds as if they?re having a mid-life crisis. "The songs on the CD flail this way and that, screamingly loud on the vocal-chord stripping song 'Lukin,' restrained and dreamy on the ballad 'Off He Goes,' and fuzzily philosophical on the mostly laid-back number 'Present Tense,' says Farley. 'No Code' is the sound of a band looking for a new direction, but too comfortable and cautious to follow through on its vision." Instead, the band seems content to follow trails blazed by others. The spiritualized, bass-heavy 'Who You Are' is a solid...
...newest album, 'No Code,' sounds as if they?re having a mid-life crisis. "The songs on the CD flail this way and that, screamingly loud on the vocal-chord stripping song 'Lukin,' restrained and dreamy on the ballad 'Off He Goes,' and fuzzily philosophical on the mostly laid-back number 'Present Tense,' says Farley. 'No Code' is the sound of a band looking for a new direction, but too comfortable and cautious to follow through on its vision." Instead, the band seems content to follow trails blazed by others. The spiritualized, bass-heavy 'Who You Are' is a solid...