Word: loudnesses
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...loud noise occurred at 9:26 p.m. and caused several people in the vicinity to call police. The police currently believe the sound was caused by a firecracker launched inside the buiding...
Clewley agreed the explosion sounded threatening. "That sucker was loud," the guard said. "It must have been a M-100 or larger firecracker...
Monster sought to be loud and sexy, and Automatic for the People was soft and ethereal. New Adventures in Hi-Fi lies somewhere in between, rarely overbearing, occasionally lulling, steadily compelling. The first track, How the West Was Won and Where It Got Us, is the album's best song. R.E.M. may have achieved its fame as a rock band, but before it broke out of Athens, Georgia, and found mainstream success, it was a college-dance-party band. How the West Was Won, with its staccato, insistent, danceable rhythm, returns the band to its roots. But the song...
...sound can't be captured on tape. No scientific instrument, regardless how sensitive, can detect it. But for millions of chocolate lovers, the nagging call of a Godiva bar or a Hershey's Kiss is as loud and impossible to ignore as an air-raid siren. It can't simply be that the stuff tastes good. So do popcorn and pizza, but the words popaholic and pizzaholic haven't forced their way into the lexicon the way chocoholic has. Chocolate doesn't just tingle the tongue: it makes people feel good in some fundamental, undefinable...
...guys in the Seattle-based rock band Pearl Jam are only in their 30s, but the group's 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...