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...said I, I’ve got to go”) demonstrates Morello’s complete inability to portray any depth of emotion in his music. The lyrics disappoint throughout the album and on many songs the listener is reduced to cringing in anticipation of another appallingly obvious rhyme...

Author: By Chris R. Kingston, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tom Morello: The Nightwatchman | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

...Barber) and a singer (Mary Pearson). From the very first song, “The Storm,” the band delves into its diverse musical lexicon with a melody reminiscent of traditional Indian folk music. Unfortunately, in the case of this particular track, Pearson’s nursery-rhyme lyrics and vocals don’t quite match the intricacies of the rhythms and instrumentation created by Barber. Despite the juvenile writing, the song is still infectious due to its primitive and up-tempo drumming, and it’s a suitable welcome to the journey that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: High Places | 10/3/2008 | See Source »

...taboos, clearing the way for a more authentic, organic mode of expression. In one song, Frank Mills, a waiflike street girl sings a lament for the boy she met once and can't find again, the purposely prosaic lyrics clashing charmingly with the lovely melody. (Don't need no rhyme, don't need no chorus, don't need the lines to even scan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Dawn for Hair | 7/31/2008 | See Source »

...Congress announced Kay Ryan as its pick for 16th Poet Laureate Consultant last week, the poetry community went all atwitter. Mention the title "poet laureate" outside the poetry community, and you'll find it has an appeal that's, well, poetic. But even cognoscenti who can rattle off the rhyme scheme of a sonnet in their sleep might be hard pressed to answer the question: What exactly does the poet laureate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's Busiest Poet | 7/23/2008 | See Source »

...writing is often compared to that of Emily Dickinson because it illuminates the ordinary, truncates thoughts across short lines and creates spliced, internal rhymes - what she calls recombinant rhyme, as in recombinant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's Busiest Poet | 7/23/2008 | See Source »

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