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Singers like Levine's spacious pace. Ekkehard Wlaschiha, the excellent Alberich, says that "to sing this music fast, you have to be Superman. Levine fulfills the tempi and he gives you time to phrase -- you can better form a musical arch." Adds Manfred Jung, a properly servile Mime: "It's no secret that the orchestra plays more quietly if the beat is not fast...
...otherwise all-male bands; or, like Madonna, they have achieved success as sexy solo divas. But for most of rock's history, women have never been full, chord-crunching, songwriting partners with men in real rock groups. The guys form the Rolling Stones or Guns N' Roses and sing Under My Thumb and Back Off Bitch; the women become the Marvelettes or the Go- Go's and record perky pop ditties...
More and more, however, in rock -- and also in rap and R. and B. -- men and women are forming bands in which the latter not only sing but play instruments and write songs too. Some tough all-female bands have formed that give a womanist twist to the raucous sound usually associated with all-buddy bands, but the more remarkable and successful phenomenon has been bands with men and women playing together. Very fine albums by the Cranberries and Smashing Pumpkins have sold more than a million copies each. Coed bands are also on the cutting edge...
...Madder Rose is touring to support its ravishing new CD, Panic On. Even vocalist Jenny Berggren of the cuddly Swedish pop band Ace of Base says she is "definitely going to do more" on her band's next CD. Berggren says she is writing some songs and won't sing just the ones written by her male bandmates...
...together for more than 50 years. They sang soulful hymnals that could convert the heathens and which made my spirit rise up from what seemed like an eternity of drought to relish in the harmonies they produced. These men tell it like it is. They believe in what they sing about, and it comes across here like only the Word...