Word: seconded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...second compilation of songs from NBC's Thursday-night ratings juggernaut is a collection of somewhat monotonous Savage Garden sound-alike music. While dozing off to depressing, somber tunes about love, relationships and the strife between men and women crooned by famous artists such as Smash Mouth, Duncan Sheik and Lisa Loeb, the highlight of the record is most certainly the sound bites of the dialogue from the series itself. Although these depict the atrocious acting skills of Jennifer Aniston and the like, they break up the droning monotony of the songs...
...thrashing guitars, even if this foray into straight blues is a little uneven. All the tracks here could reasonably be considered necessary inclusions, although, as is inevitable, there are some notable omissions. The band's folk-based yearnings, so prominent on III, are almost ignored throughout. In general, their second and third albums are much more scarcely represented, but it's not a significant problem...
...Afro Angel," which uses the simplicity of its lyrics as a highly evocative tool. Willennium thumbs its nose at apocalyptic prophecy, evidenced by the irony of the album's first song, "I'm Comin'," where Smith tells his audience to relax about the millennium because "It's not the second coming of Christ, it's the first coming of me." Smith's collaboration with MC Lyte and Ali, "Who Am I?," has a chorus that even the most jaded listener will sing along to. And for New Year's Eve, a copy of Willennium will be just as vital...
...into the subject's work, often resulting in a rather one-sided view of the subject. Of course, an incomplete portrayal of a subject can easily be construed as an unfair one, and it is this implicit danger that no doubt often encourages the reader hungry for intrigue or second-hand gossip to purchase a biography. Such is potentially the case in Nicholas Fox Weber's Balthus...
...also] got a record of leadership. Texas is the second-largest state in the nation," Bush said...