Word: songe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Moving Cities, the American debut of English group Faze Action, opens with a magnificent string arrangement. All well and good, one thinks, but the publicity people said it was a dance album. And then the bassline appears, the drums join in, the title song really kicks in, and you find yourself snapping your fingers, tapping the table and bingo! You're dancing. And now that damn string arrangement won't go out of your head...
...Shop Boys have always made erudite dance music. Few other groups, after all, would take a song title from an Anthony Trollope novel (1993's "Can You Forgive Her?"). In Nightlife, their first studio album since 1996's Bilingual, Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe stick to their forte...
...Okay, it sounds hokey. But it was fun. Guster immediately launched into a rocking "What You Wish For," the first song on their new album. Though Guster played primarily from the newly released Lost and Gone Forever, songs from their previous two records, the debut-album Parachute and GoldFly, also made it into their set list. It's hard to describe exactly what Guster sounds like, but at the concert they played at the full range of their abilities. Essentially, they play everything--the surreal, the real and the ingenious. Brian, the group's backbone, works the bongos with awesome...
...Jimmy: "What impressed me the most about the entire night was not necessarily the music, but rather the dynamic between the audience and the band. I gained a certain familiarity with their two mainstays, Barrel of the "Gun and Airport Song," but throughout the set, the audience sang along and echoed with remarkable clarity all the words to the Seth: "The normal amount of bouncing, jumping and frolicking was nowhere to be found; likewise, the audience was not treated to a repeat of Ryan's crowd surfing (to a boisterous rendition of Neil Diamond's "Sweet Caroline") from this summer...
...acoustic Mona Lisa in the large sold-out Orpheum, Miller and Adam Gardner sang softly, almost imperceptible to the ear from our seats in the back right. Yet, when previously balloons were loudly struck and yells exchanged, the hall turned to silence, pure silence. When recognition dawned on the song, a background chorus more perfect than even some professional backup vocals rose from the crowd in harmony to the band. For that stark moment, I wished that I had broken into this cult, and sang along for one clear voice along with everyone else and to a band that produced...