Word: musication
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...normally be acceptable.However, as a work in isolation, “Perfect Fifths” is heavy on back-story and characters that are mentioned briefly but never seem to appear. These hanging details may be a source of annoyance for uninitiated readers: performer Barry Manilow’s music, for instance, has been a thread running through the series. McCafferty uses his songs, such as “Ready To Take A Chance Again” and “Can’t Smile Without You” as a metaphor for Jessica and Marcus?...
...Deeper than Rap” meets all current requirements for a decent hip-hop album, it still leaves much to be desired. One song in particular is exemplary of the fact that listeners will find what they expect to find, but nothing more. “Maybach Music 2” provides an accurate summary of what seems to be the only correct recipe, give or take an artist, for popular remixes and song sequels over the past two years: an Auto-Tuned chorus from T-Pain, lyrics about basking in gratuitous luxuries, and 16 bars from Weezy or Yeezy...
...does so in a setting that renders both those words devoid of any negative power. The interspersing of Rhys’ vocals with McCarthy’s near-garbled German elevates “Inaugural Trams” to the level of comic masterpiece.In a musical marketplace where attempts at indie rock humor that fall flat are a dime a dozen, Super Furry Animals truly stand out. They have two key strengths: an acute sense of the ridiculous and a wonderful sense of timing. Any band that can pull off the lines “I look like a loser...
...things that writer Bret Easton Ellis is comfortable with are not the things that most people are comfortable with: hard drugs, greed, outré sexuality, pop music, homicide, the name “Christie”—the 1980s. His novels have returned to these subjects again and again, beginning in “Less Than Zero,” continuing through his seminal work, “American Psycho,” and into a follow-up collection of short stories, “The Informers”—lately made into a somewhat uncomfortable...
When a movie’s trailer makes big promises, the film itself rarely measures up to expectations. Billed as an emotionally soaring saga based on the true story of “a lost dream, an unlikely friendship, and the redemptive power of music,” “The Soloist” tries hard to take our emotions for a ride but never quite leaves the ground. Though the performances are convincing and compelling, the movie is weighed down by its insistence on subordinating both music and personal narrative to a broader social message. The story...