Word: listenability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...school down the river--Harvard has chosen to play the Tory. Perhaps Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Brit Jeremy R. Knowles is a little bitter. Regardless, it is a shame that the only area festivity in which we'll partake is the Loker fly-by. Listen to the children of Harvard and you won't hear the midnight of Paul Revere...
...result is an intensely emotional and articulate cry for those oppressed by their gender, race or sexuality to fight a society that excludes their voices. While skewering criticism that her music is too angry and political, DiFranco's songs have also responded to attacks from extremely possessive listeners who expect her to maintain an image appropriate to their favorite raging Ani DiFranco song. They may know all the words, but how hard do such fans really listen? The same kids who cheered a girl who screamed "FUCK THEM!" in the middle of "Little Plastic Castle" ("People talk/About my image/Like...
...thing that gets to me is that so much of good house music originates from the States, but it's still an underground sound. Most people I've met here either don't listen to dance music at all, or listen to its more esoteric forms, like Goa trance. They did tell me this was a country of extremes. But just because house music's fun to dance to doesn't invalidate it as a music form. Sometimes I feel like a missionary trying to win converts, but really I'm just trying to stop people from playing the same...
...other songs whose remaining components are then manipulated and layered on top of other tracks. The results: a melodic game of musical chairs with incestuous rhythms scattered across the album's 27 tracks. Ranging from spacey ambient musings to Bowie-damaged indie pop, it all manages to work. Each listen reveals a new depth to the construction. The less focused interludes last just long enough to make you appreciate the hooks when they finally do snag hold. The Olivia Tremor Control, like their more normal friends Neutral Milk Hotel, manage to make a strange and beautiful album with enough complexity...
...those who judge a CD by its looks, beware. Under its shoddy cover, Best of Planet Groove is surprisingly pleasant and worthy for music listeners of all levels. Beginners will taste a range of classic hip hop, ballad and R&B tunes of '97 while experts may feel nostalgic as they listen to the music that initially lured them to this genre of mesmerizing vocals and rhythms. The selection is both random and diverse, including pieces such as the extremely slow and dangerously sexy "Be Careful" by R. Kelly and upbeat yet sensuous "It's All About...