Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that doesn't take away the sing of losing. Even after Harvard played Yale evenly for most of Saturday's contest, the Elis got the last laugh...
...parents in a small town near Montreal. At 12 she made her first recordings and soon became la p'tite Quebecoise (little Quebecker), the darling of the whole province. Dion admits to losing a big chunk of her childhood, but not to any regrets. "My favorite game was to sing," she recalls. At 15 she dropped out of school because, she says, "it was taking me away from music, from my happiness, from my dreams...
Bargainville opens with the catchy tune, River Valley." The strumming guitar rhythms provide the foundation, and the meaty, complex vocal harmonies coast along above as a cushion for the solid pop vocal of lead singer Mike Ford. The lyrics are a bit on the trite side, as Ford sings, "Me and Pete went swimming last night/ he's my friend from Boy Scouts/All the fish were floating uptight/we got scared and we got out... Who will save the river valley?" Yes, it borders on ecoconsciousness-raising music, but these guys do not take themselves that seriously. There is a naivete...
...friend of mine recently said that Malkmus was a Bob Dylan for our times: "Every night he goes out on stage and sings different words, and every time it's just as great." He has been accused of singing nonsense; the liner notes in his records include lists of words which have no relation to one another aside from sounding similar ("Close Shave. Chess Leave. Clove Leash." etc). But it doesn't sound like nonsense to me. While any one song might not have a coherent "plot," such as boy-meets-girl or man-hit-the-road, which...
This is interesting stuff for those with rock'n roll aspiration, but I fear for its universal appeal. Scrawled in the liner notes is a boxed phrase: "NOTHIN TO SING BOUT." In a recent interview in Raygun Malkmus addressed this problem, admitting that when he recorded this album he didn't have anything "poetic and beautiful to say, and I wasn't having girl-friend problems." He just didn't have the inspiration, I guess; the best moments are those that reveal a vague angst, best summed up in the melancholy chorus of "Range Life": "If I could settle down...