Word: necks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...black 50's style frames. Ashe performs with Mopar at the Happy Hour, he wearsa greenish plaid shirt and jeans. Even though hehas spent his entire day organizing this event, heexerts all of his bodily energy while singing,tensing up while leaning back and hunching down.The veins on his neck pop out angrily, and hisface is strained. He bounces a lot, and jumps. Heturns his back to the audience. He spreads hislegs far apart, one in front of the other, andwriggles. At the end of a song he is short ofbreath. "I'm losing my voice," he laments. Helooks exhausted...
...Helium: as more and more people showed up to their gigs, the songs got longer and slower. A bouncy college-radio favorite, "American Jean," vanished from their live set, and was replaced by complicated works in which the incidental sound of Mary Timony's fingers sliding along the guitar neck, or the slow boom of mallets on drums, might be as important to a song as the sequence of chords and riffs, On a good night, the effect was cathartic, hypnotic; on a bad night (which mostly meant a night with a bad sound engineer), the new songs sounded sludgy...
...long, gradually building, apprehensive work; song two is short, light, vocal-oriented, and witty; song three is the emotional punchline, with a memorable chorus and a slow riff to match. The first song on side two, called "ooo," includes both the sounds of hesitant fingers on a guitar neck and a periodic irruption of jazzy trumpet-playing, as if to dramatize some kind of contest between cool, sleek exterior (trumpets) and internal fear or hesitancy (guitar neck sound). These are exactly the kinds of devices that require the songs to be so slow (otherwise we wouldn't notice them...
...battled back to tie the score at seven, and from then on it was a neck and neck contest. Regulation play ended with the score notched...
...rigors of prehistoric African life enabled members of the H. habilis clan to survive as a species for 500,000 years or more, and at least one group of them apparently evolved, around 2 million years B.P., into a taller, stronger, smarter variety of human. From the neck down, Homo erectus, on average about 5 ft. 6 in. tall, was probably almost indistinguishable from a modern human. Above the neck -- well, these were still primitive humans. The skulls have flattened foreheads and prominent brow ridges like those of a gorilla or chimpanzee, and the jawbone shows no hint of anything...