Word: screech
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Most of you have probably seen "Psyho," Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece of suspense and lunacy, at some time or another. It's one of those films that has achieved the status of American institution, like "Casablanca" or "Citizen kane." The Shower Scene. The screech-screech noise. Need I say more...
...group's debut CD starts off with Farrell's screech, "I got the devil in me," and ends with a song in which he gives a woman her first-ever orgasm: "Sit back/ And get yourself relaxed," he soothes. The group's name comes from a fireworks ad that Farrell spotted in a dirty magazine; on the album, the phrase porno for pyros is also used as a lyrical description of last year's L.A. uprising. That kind of juxtaposition -- psychedelic sexuality matched with social commentary -- is the strength of the album. The wild abandon of the imagination is connected...
...anything or crowding him, he would still just rather not have them around. I assume that Mr. Heller recognizes that we are doing what we can to teach our children good manners, but that as they are one and three years old they will from time to time still "screech" in public...
...cheerfully lives up to Bible-thumpers' expectations: "We'll make a deal, you'll grow your hair/ As Satan's child you'll start a band/ And spread the word across the land." Every parent's favorite metal god, Rob Halford of Judas Priest, even lends his signature screech to the backing vocals of this track...
...then, when he was doing so much good for so many, did he turn his back on the generation of tomorrow? For something he considers even more important. His latest album, Evergreen Everblue, is not merely inappropriate for toddlers; it is a warning screech of apocalypse. Its cover portrays a haunted Raffi with death's-head stare, his beard spiked with acid-laden pine trees. Instead of warmly promising, as one of his favorite children's songs did, that Everything Grows, the new Raffi howls piercingly, "Why are we poisoning our children? What's the matter with...