Word: rolls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they make the album work as a whole. Without this context, the album lacks any kind of continuity and makes the purpose of Death to the Pixies seem more depressing. The album falls completely short on its goal as a celebration of the Pixies' influence on contemporary rock 'n' roll. Death to the Pixies is supposed to be "what you're listening to this week," but it seems more like "this is what you were listening to in eighth grade." Death to the Pixies doesn't totally kill the ability of this band to rock, it only crimps its wings...
...offers a montage of visual and aural images (including film clips and written and spoken words) all of which depict stereotypes of Asian men and women, especially in their sexual interactions. The clips, for instance, all feature scenes in which white men and Asian women are embracing. Meanwhile, questions roll across the bottom of the screen: "Do they really have small penises?"; "Have you heard the term 'asiaphile'...how about 'rice queen'...[or] 'pagoda worshiper?"; and "Why does People Magazine list 50 beautiful people with three Asian women and no Asian men?" Overlaid on the video itself is a sequence...
Forget the music. The Rolling Stones concert at Foxboro Stadium wasn't so much a performance of music as it was a performance of performance. The Stones, ever the embodiment of good ol' pure, simple rock and roll, were the perpetrators of one of the most extravagant spectacles imaginable. They surfed through the concert on the crest of this dynamic--the simple versus the extravagant, the simple made extravagant, an interplay which in retrospect was the ideal way to showcase one of music's most long-beloved and constant phenomena...
...forget the music. The songs of the Rolling Stones have never been hailed as ingenious, musically or lyrically, but have consistently had the ability to get the job done. Something about the Stones epitomizes the essence of uncomplicated and robust rock and roll, a quality which is especially reinforced in a concert setting. Their music has a visceral appeal; something that makes it greater than the sum of its parts. Rock is simply an idiom which they have mastered. One might say their mastery for the sheer feel of rock music is greater even than their musical proficiency in creating...
...good things is that we did not roll over and quit after the seven-point deficit where earlier in the season we would have," Benson said...