Word: mainstream
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Depeche Mode's biggest influences were David Bowie, Kraftwerk and Roxy Music. Sound eclectic? Well, so does this album, Musically, it's all over the place, but the set remains uniformly strong. The styles range from the richly balladic "Condemnation" to the mainstream "Enjoy the Silence" to the NINish "Stripped." Regardless of the individual style of the music, you can count on it being driven by synthesizers and being immoderately gloomy...
...women in Speedos? Frosh Parents Weekend They'll want to meet your boyfriend. They'll want to hang around your room. By Friday night, you'll want them to go home. Movies in The Square With the closing of the Sony Janus, it's now even tougher to catch mainstream fare. Even smart folk want dumb flicks. Jesse "The Body" Ventura Former WWF star now a promising Minnesota gubernatorial candidate. Hubert Humphrey, watch out for the suplex...
...self-proclaimed perfectionist, spent the last four years writing Car Wheels on a Gravel Road. In her 20-year musical career, Williams has only released five albums, all on different labels. Although her songwriting skills have garnered her a Grammy, Williams own music has eluded much of the mainstream music population. However, Car Wheels on a Gravel Road has been heralded as one of the year's best albums and inscribed as the Blonde on Blonde of the '90s by producer Joe Boyd. Certainly, this is not to say her straightforward narrative style somehow mirrors Bob Dylan's layered poetry...
...except the continuously repeated vocal sample "Right about now, the funk soul brother. Check it out now, the funk soul brother," which Fatboy links directly into the opening measures. "The Rockafeller Skank" was released as a single in March, and served as the catalyst of the artist's recent mainstream popularity. The addictive Lord Finesse vocal sample and the twangy surf guitar augment the elastic beat and funky bass line to make it one of the best dance songs of the year. This track is Fatboy Slim at his best, as he manages to create a continuity of euphony that...
...need to get people who come out of law school and business school and the mainstream business of making money, to commit themselves to public service," he said...