Word: mainstream
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Musically, the Goo Dolls are your run-of-the-mill mainstream alternative band. Nothing extraordinary is done here in the way of instrumentation, and most songs are similar in their construction and execution--verse, verse, bridge, verse. "Extra Pale" is a brief flash of distinction in the obscurity created by so many homophonic songs with its abrupt pauses and nicely-incorporated backup vocals. Those who might be tired of "Iris" will welcome its mandolin and violins to break up the thickness of guitar, bass and drums characterizing the rest of this album. The strangest quality of the music of Dizzy...
...Couch plumbs how psychotherapy in the 1960s evolved into "an orgy of parent-bashing." Although psychoanalysts changed what parental behaviors were "psychotic-inducing" with the capriciousness that designers of their same era changed hemlines, their theories always retained one constant: the mother was at fault each time. Mainstream thinking dictated that "mechanized and maladroit" (so called "refridgerator" mothers) produced autistic and schizophrenic children. Other Rosen-type psychoanalysts would also blame the victims and their weakness to fend madness off. But there were no statistics, let alone control groups to back such theories. Often, all these psychotherapists relied upon...
...Riegel, acting is all aboutversatility. In a turn onscreen that seems 180degrees from the animated mainstream, she willappear in "East Great Falls High," a flick sheopenly refers to as "a teen sex comedy...
Incongruity aside, this first pan through the Ant Colony is sure to be the newest addition to the hall of mainstream animation fame. Like the Wildebeast stampede in The Lion King or the ballroom sequence in Beauty and the Beast it is difficult not to be enraptured by this visual tour of the capital of ant farms. As you'd expect, listening to Woody Allen complain about "never being able to lift more than ten times his body weight" is funny, but in Antz, it is the panorama that steals the show. The casting choices made by Dream Works...
Isaak fits very nicely within the mainstream sound--perhaps too nicely. A little bit of country, a pinch soft rock, and even some alternative have all been mixed together, creating something that is almost likable, yet still complacent and predictable. Noticeably absent are any of the truly intense moments that enable people to love (or hate) music with any passion. It's quite possible to have heard it all before and not realize it, or to confuse the songs with one another...