Word: popped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there is a downside to the album, it would be Pierce's sentimentality. Much of the disc explores Pierce's current and previous relationships, as well as his breakup with his bandmates of ten years. Yet this is not the overdone sap of teenage pop idols, but the mature pondering of an adult. For Pierce, this is a fine return from his sabbatical...
...listened to some of your other music, and I definitely see so many influences, like The Beatles, and other British pop. What were your influences on your music...
...days fronting Galaxie 500. Moreover, Luna's compositions have a dreamy and yet biting edge that picks their way into your mind and refuses to leave. The band's latest album, The Days Of Our Nights, is a sublime piece of mellow and dreamy Velvet Underground-inspired pop. That fact, along with the other Luna songs that had filtered into my brain, suitably impressed and intrigued me enough that I desired to check out their live show...
...knew what he was doing. Andy Warhol played with iconography, holding up our artifacts to say that the commonplace holds as much significance as anything else in our lives. He spoke to a society afraid of meaningfulness and wrong answers. The pop artist fed an international culture weaned off of substance and onto fashion...
...last--a classy Christmas album. Von Otter, the best of all possible mezzo-sopranos, has put together a kaleidoscopically varied program of pop, jazz, classical and folk songs accompanied by an equally diverse instrumental ensemble (accordion, marimba, guitar, synthesizers, a brass quintet--you name it, she's got it). Every number, be it Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, O Come, All Ye Faithful or Benjamin Britten's Corpus Christi Carol, is sung with stylish grace and disarming sincerity. And unlike most classical singers, Von Otter knows how to make a pop tune swing...