Word: moderns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Athens, Georgia, manage to start off with everything that's wrong with concept albums and end up with everything that's right. First, begin with the pretentious, overly intellectual premise: the OTC set out to create an audible representation of dreams within music that pulses "with the rhythms of modern life." Next, toss in some unnecessarily complex musical tampering: a bass line from one original song is altered for various other songs whose remaining components are then manipulated and layered on top of other tracks. The result: a melodic game of musical chairs with incestuous rhythms scattered across the album...
...dreams, get into my car" '80s classics. However, someone should have gagged these artists before they wrote the daftly-worded "Mr. Fix It." As the band ends with their lasting call, "Legalize it... don't criticize it," they affirm their success at maintaining the energy and life of modern reggae...
While the focus of Lost on Earth is on refugees and human migration, the book uses this angle to discuss broader issues in America's post Cold War foreign policy, paint a vivid picture of the horrors and atrocities still present in our supposedly "modern warfare" and convey the hopelessness and frustration of entire societies through the lives of individuals. Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent Mark Fritz succeeds in writing a thoughtful book that should shock the average, complacent American into realizing that a world of incredible human tragedies surround an insulated, peaceful American society...
...Athens, Georgia, manage to start off with everything that's wrong with concept albums and end up with everything that's right. First, begin with the pretentious, overly intellectual premise: the OTC set out to create an audible representation of dreams within music that pulses "with the rhythms of modern life." Next, toss in some unnecessarily complex musical tampering: a bass line from one original song is altered for various other songs whose remaining components are then manipulated and layered on top of other tracks. The results: a melodic game of musical chairs with incestuous rhythms scattered across the album...
While the participants disagreed on many of the details surrounding the issue, they agreed that the media plays an important role in modern international affairs...