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...guitarist, is simple, frills-free, and plenty of good clean fun—but it’s not for all music tastes. Its style is undeniably simplistic, and its lyrics (when decipherable) are hardly memorable. The chorus of “Wild Bikini,” an ode to a hot beach-babe, goes “Well she sure looks cute/ In her pink swim suit.” Beat Surf Fun may not be poetic, but it is a collection of lighthearted, and easy-on-the-ears indie pop songs that go down smooth. Ridiculously catchy songs...
...film begins in a distinctly un-Latin blizzard in Berlev?g, home to some 1,200 souls. On a headland facing the North Pole, the hardy ensemble solemnly belts out a robust ode to the forces of nature as icicles form on their whiskers. "Finnmark lad, you found your grave/Out on the awesome wave ..." Their songs are interspersed, as the seasons change, with glimpses into individual lives. The men - among them an agnostic church organist, a reformed drug addict and a bellicose communist - are kindly and ornery, childlike and cynical, flirty and stern. The camera lingers over small details...
...album’s first single is “Baby Phat,” an ode to the women with the love handles, with the bit of flab, with the normal body shape that you never see on music videos or fashion runways. It’s a solid single, with a good beat and a catchy chorus, and for its content it is a breath fresh air in this genre. But it isn’t one of the album’s best songs...
...Lazy" (1924), Joan Morris and William Bolcom, on "Blue Skies: Songs by Irving Berlin" (recorded 1985, released 1990). Mezzo-soprano Morris and pianist Bolcom, those most joyful archivists of antique pop, turn this ode to indolence into a statement on the ecstasy of doin' nothin'. A classical classic...
...country got a little surprise in the mail last week: just-burned plain white compact discs on which were scrawled, Let's Roll and NEIL YOUNG. Yes, the Neil Young, muttonchopped crooner of protest hymns, who, while recording his new album, asked his manager to roll out Roll, his ode to the hijacked passengers of United Airlines Flight 93. Young was inspired by reading an article about Todd Beamer, 32, who stormed the cockpit--but not before signaling his fellow rebels with his now famous phrase, "Let's roll." The song is "a powerful funk-rock dirge," according...