Word: slicks
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...album kicks off with the attention-grabbing single “Coma Girl” which sounds like vintage Clash, only more pop- and reggae-tinged than the Clash ever permitted themselves. Strummer’s voice is guttural and slovenly, the antithesis of all that is slick and shiny in contemporary music. The tinge of age in Strummer’s voice gives his lyrics a classiness and authority that can’t be bought or faked, particularly on folksy ballads like “Long Shadow.” Strummer even carries off a straight-up cover...
...slick fielder who won four Golden Gloves playing for the Lions, Kazuo Matsui batted .305 with 33 home runs and 13 stolen bases this year. Scouts liken the switch-hitter to a stronger Ichiro Suzuki, the All-Star Seattle Mariners' outfielder whose impact on the U.S. game turned Japanese players into must-haves for major-league rosters. Matsui's move will be lucrative. Several clubs have already expressed interest, including the free-spending Yankees, who are already paying $6 million a year to last year's Matsui. This year's Matsui is likely to demand a Godzilla-like salary...
...pictures of garbage bags, air-conditioner boxes, cases of empty beer bottles," says Ike. "I came to think of the city as a character in the movie." Tokyo Godfathers' portrayal of the metropolis is so fresh and stark that it's hard to view the city in the same slick way again. Tokyo's bright-eyed homeless men, the occasional sashaying transvestite, and the teenage girls languishing in the shadows like lost children shift into the foreground, while the usual symbols of the capital suddenly seem irrelevant...
...Open Up Your Heart” and the somber closer “Infatuation,” where kettle drums boom over an acoustic guitar and a shoegazing Jenner, the Rapture demonstrate that well-dressed New Yorkers have feelings too. The album sounds so confident and brash, so slick and assured, that it is impossible not to be convinced of this band’s significance...
...really excited about going to a place that has a pseudo fast food restaurant and some pool tables missing pool balls? And rather than taking steps to rectify their mistake, the University has instead decided to launch a marketing campaign, hoping that students will be coerced by slick posters...