Word: singed
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...perhaps the most beautiful song on the album, is an excellent example of Soul Coughing's elegant alliance between sound and language. The song opens with an underwater, ambient effect of waves of bass and high synth strings. Doughty enters with a uncharacteristically melancholy and amazingly seductive voice to sing about suffocating love. As the line "like waves in which you drown me shouting, waves in which you drown me shouting" repeats almost endlessly, the waves of bass and Doughty's hypnotic voice meld into a virtually indistinguishable pulse of sound...
...large, muscular people sit at tables cordoned off from the chickwich-eating freshmen in Annenberg. As if the maple leaf-themed clothing isn't enough to prove their Canadian pride, when the Harvard University Band lines up to play "Oh, Canada," all 60 of the diners stand up and sing along. When conversation turns to hockey and Quebec separatism, there is no doubt that this is an authentic Canadian Thanksgiving...
Michael Kotutwa Johnson, a senior at Cornell University and a member of the Hopi tribe, interrupted the readings to sing a song that he described as the Native American national anthem...
DIED. GENE AUTRY, 91, Hollywood's first singing cowboy; in Los Angeles. The Texas-born, Oklahoma-raised crooner planned to play baseball (he later settled for owning the California Angels). Instead he entered show business, heeding the advice of Will Rogers, who recommended a radio career after hearing Autry, on break from a job as a telegrapher at a train station, sing and play his guitar. His first hit, 1931's That Silver-Haired Daddy of Mine, was followed by TV and radio shows, almost 100 films and 635 recordings--including his signature Back in the Saddle Again...
...perhaps, the saving grace of this album. One might criticize the hackneyed phrasing, the pretentious lead vocals, and the uncreative musicianship, but the upshot of Dizzy Up the Girl is that its melodies are so memorable and euphonious as to shift attention from the sorrow of which they sing. Isn't that, after all, an optimism that we of the Prozac 90s could...