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Sometimes the band offers the listener some Spanish lyric and then translates them into easy-to-grasp English. In "She Gone" is the line: "On the sunny side of the street/en el lado soladio de tu calle." I am not sure of the intent here; maybe this is an allusion to U2's recent bilingual title: "Achtung Baby...
...Lyric Stage...
...stricken, dignified posture at the end of Master Harold is subtle and powerful acting, and his performance throughout the play lifts the Lyric Stage's production to an interpretation of Fugard's terrible, wonderful play that does it justice...
These days -- these moments -- it's Seattle. One band after another has sprung from the environs of the city's fast-lane bar scene onto the national charts. The lyrical metal band Queensryche has sold more than 2 million copies of its album Empire. Alice in Chains, which lays down a kind of altered- consciousness heavy metal -- the Doors, slamming -- is approaching platinum-level sales with Facelift. Nevermind, by the Seattle-area trio Nirvana, has sold 3.5 million, and the group's single Smells Like Teen Spirit, with its arch lyric ironies and crusher guitar chords, hit Billboard...
More than any other group, it is Nirvana that typifies the new Seattle heat. "I feel stupid and contagious/ Here we are now, entertain us," is one of Teen Spirit's more memorable lyric refrains, fully characteristic of the band's spiky style. The core members of Nirvana, lead singer-guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Chris Novoselic, teened together in Aberdeen, Wash., and teamed up to form Nirvana in 1987 (drummer David Grohl signed on later). Both were fans of the brooding postpunk musical musings of Husker Du, as well as of the shameless theatricality of Kiss. Nirvana's first...