Word: punk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...singing, mostly in a very high register, suggests that she's just maintaining enough composure to control where the songs go (and, for the song's sparely-drawn characters, where their/her lives/life will go). And, more than anything, these songs are well-and attentively built: there's no raw punk attack. Instead the emotional depth comes from the care that each sound, each note, has obviously received. The long, long melodies on some songs (as opposed to a three-note punk riff) are further evidence of how much attention has been paid to every bit of this record...
...book, Route 666, rock critic Gina Arnold examines the rise of college radio in the wake of the birth of punk in the '70s: "When mainstream radio lost its grip on music, then the long-dormant airwaves of the college radio stations...became an invaluable American network...the inevitable conduit for all the independently released records to be given their due. They played the unheard music...
Generally the Record Hospital plays music with a hard edge, but in recent years it has become more melodic. Of course, disc jockeys' musical tastes very widely. "It's actually a pretty diverse range of music. You can hear hard-core punk, wimpy pop music, or sort of avant-garde and experimental music. It's not all grunge stuff," comments Sonnenschein...
...Dave Grohl, Nirvana's drummer, because of hisdemented air and his stellar performance in "TheYear Punk Broke...
...girlfriend, Louise (Lesley Sharp) and proceeds to upset everyone he meets. Johnny epitomizes the lost, melancholy yet erudite state of existential angst as it stands in modern society. He "exercise" his frustrations through rough, violent sex with the random people he finds, including Louis's dark-headed, punk roomate, Sophie. Of course, Sophie and Johnny get together within the first few minutes of the film, even before Louise gets home from work, Sophie ,without any sort of guidance in her vapid, drugfilled life, finds a beacon in Johnny and his deft tongue, both in and out of bed. Johnny sees...