Word: listenability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...want to understand the blues, all you have to do is listen. It doesn't matter if you're from New Jersey or New Orleans; understanding the blues comes simply from knowing how to share. We all know how to suffer, goes the logic of the blues. If there's anything we have to learn, it's how to talk and listen to each other...
...guys listen to the radio a lot when you're touring? Do you get a different sense of the type of popular music around here versus in England...
...Well, the stations here are so...you've got your rock station, you've got your R&B stations, you've got your hip-hop stations... I tend not to listen. I don't listen a lot to the radio anyway. I mean, I listen to Radio Three at home, which is a classical music station, because if you spend all your life making loud rock music, you get home and you want something a bit easier on your ears...
...stations in the U.K., they have advertising, so they have to find a mainstream audience, to sell adverts. [BBC] Radio One, evening-time, is bearable... you know John Peel? He's probably the most famous radio DJ in the U.K. He's always interesting, but I don't really listen to the radio or watch...
...sets. Arliss Howard's Ivanov is endlessly and openly angst-ridden. He mopes around the stage so that we cannot help but notice his misery, strips to the waist and spreads his arms like Christ on the cross, and by the end shouts his anguish to all who will listen. Debra Winger as Ivanov's wronged and ignored wife Sarah goes from the almost unbearably saintly (Sarah of the Infinite Patience) straight to Medea mode (Sarah the Terrible). And Benjamin Evett as her doctor comes across more like the Scourge of God than a concerned physician...