Word: rock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This new-age rock band from Nebraska combines the soothing sounds of guitar and vibraphone with the intoxicating vocals of lead singer Ted Stevens. A group with a kind of Marcy Playground feel, Lullaby for the Working Class's spiritual music induces the listener into a sort of narcotic sleep, leaving you feeling as though you should be either meditating or jumping off of a building...
...they are pretentious. Yes, they have undergone almost as many cast changes as Menudo. Nevertheless, Dream Theater continues to maintain a firm and compelling grip on mainstream progressive-rock/metal since Awake, their breakthrough album. Scenes from a Memory, their eighth record, demonstrates the band's relentless ability to evolve despite holding onto many elements of the same old same old: heavy riffs, ambitious solos, and tender moments disintegrated by explosions of prog power. The album unabashedly flaunts its rock theatrics, with tracks divided into acts and scene. There's even a cast of characters. Although some tracks like "Overture...
...also released his previous album around Halloween, you might wonder whether Glampire might be some rip-off of the original glam scene. Glampire's third full album, The Heraldic Universe, walks the line between dark pop and post-teenage angst. The music is a mixture of goth, synth, perky rock beats, and tinges of NIN tonalities. Unfortunately, you'll have to deal with the cheesy '80s-style electric guitar in the opening tracks. Add in Glampire's androgynous voice to the back-to-back songs "Super Sad" and "Happy Again?" and you'll roll your eyes. But in true glam...
...dramatic scenes continued to unwind before my eyes, I suddenly stopped lamenting my missed night of fun. Yoko's screams were accompanied by fast paced, energetic rock ditties and Gara's stories of his past encounters with defeat were virtually too much for my poor soul to bear. But what drew me the most to the film was its surprisingly reflective nature. This wasn't a foray of pointless, indescretionary violence like we see in so many films today, but rather violence calculated to prove a point about ambition and the power of evil. And as Gara stood over...
...part of the music. They are a lot like the flygirls who appeared on the now-defunct TV variety show "In Living Color," kicking dance-ass and taking names while punctuating the story line with risque, hyper-energetic, musical exclamation points. To put it simply, they put the rock in rock opera...