Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...very, very lucky, it happens. A miracle of nature. After waiting patiently for what seems years, we notice a slow emergence. The cocoon breaks and out of the depths of cynical garage-rock and tortured, pre-millenial angst there climbs a thing of radiant beauty--a wonder of nature so luminous and pure that we can do nothing but raise our tear-filled eyes to the heavens, sigh in complete abandon and carefully begin to shake some serious booty...
...album where Soul Coughing obviously falters are the few moments where the music and language do not quite fit together. Occasionally, the lyrics get a little caught up in exorbitant verbosity and leave the music stumbling behind. "St. Louise is Listening" (a song as close to garage rock as Soul Coughing gets) and "Maybe I'll Come Down" (a bland ballad that strains Doughty's voice and listener's patience) are two songs that should have remained poems. In both, a surplus of syllables obviously constrains the music--Doughty is overly intellectual and whiny, the instrumentation is weak...
Since you've trekked all the way into Boston, why not check out perennial 80s favorite Cheap Trick as they kick off their three day Boston stint at the Paradise Rock Club with tunes from their first album? 8 p.m., Paradise Rock Club, 969 Commonwealth Ave., Boston...
...choice of music was equally broad. The Jolly Kopperschmidts, a German band, played polka in front of Holyoke Center, while a string of rock bands, including Jude, Block, Jim's Big Ego and Bellevue Cadillac, drew a crowd to Brattle Square...
Solid as a Rock...