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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...regular" electronic sound of today and the unusual spin the Natural Calamity puts on its version of electronic pop. The lyrics of "As You Know" also seem to say what Peach Head is all about. Lines such as "As you know/it's the middle of the 90s/forget about the mainstream" and "We all know that anything could happen" show why Natural Calamity is more concerned with expressing their natural musical style rather than conforming to optimize their chances at success. On this subject, Kuni Sugimoto said, "As long as I can do the things I want from my own stance...

Author: By Benjamin A. Teply, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Natural Calamity Plays Music More Fuzzy than 'Peachy' | 11/20/1998 | See Source »

...unlike my father, Frank Haddad was fullyassimilated into the mainstream. Scenes with himat a bar and playing football with his son makeclear that "the `good guy' has an Americanlifestyle," Al-Ississ says. "It's good to see thatindeed, Arabs can integrate into American society,but it also has the counter-effect of saying, tobe a good guy, you have to be fully integrated."Siddiqui argues that although Frank "did give [anAmerican audience] some sense of `Look how thereare good ones among them,' he wasn't developed asone of them [Muslims], only one of `us.'" Zwickadmits that despite the presence...

Author: By Murad S. Hussain, | Title: IDENTITIES UNDER SIEGE | 11/19/1998 | See Source »

...music-listeners with old favorites like "Fabulous Harmonica played by the Yama Yama Man" and "Serenades for Sex Kittens." In particular, the shop specializes in Jazz, Blues, Classic Rock and "Roots" music. Seekers of Chumba Wumba and Olivia Newton John will have to look elsewhere for their fix of mainstream pop and other musical schlock. A written blurb really cannot do justice to this unique source of hifi records and rare gems of the forgotten eras. The titles undoubtedly speak for themselves: "Music to grow Plants," "Music for the Halfassed," "Polka Encounters of the Honky Kind," and "Music for Washing...

Author: By Eloise D. Austin, | Title: on the T again OUTWARD BOUND | 11/19/1998 | See Source »

...Rosie told me one time, "There's nothing wrong with mainstream." I was a little hurt. Because it suggested that I was trying desperately to be offbeat and accepted by only two or three people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paula Poundstone | 11/16/1998 | See Source »

...thing for a candidate to walk across a state to meet voters. Pro-environment Democratic Senate candidate DAVID OSTERBERG (3) decided to canoe across a state--in this case, Iowa. Most voters are mainstream, Dave, not midstream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oops! The Top Gaffes of Election '98 | 11/16/1998 | See Source »

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