Word: songe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Monster sought to be loud and sexy, and Automatic for the People was soft and ethereal. New Adventures in Hi-Fi lies somewhere in between, rarely overbearing, occasionally lulling, steadily compelling. The first track, How the West Was Won and Where It Got Us, is the album's best song. R.E.M. may have achieved its fame as a rock band, but before it broke out of Athens, Georgia, and found mainstream success, it was a college-dance-party band. How the West Was Won, with its staccato, insistent, danceable rhythm, returns the band to its roots. But the song...
Rent is also a problematic show to record. Some of its songs meander with the plot, although in live performances the cast is able to make most of them work by means of raw energy, youthful good looks and old-fashioned showmanship. There are plenty that hold up well on record, however, such as One Song Glory, a brave, bold blast that compares with some of the best tunes on Jesus Christ Superstar, the pioneering 1971 rock opera. However, neither Rent nor Noise/Funk is as bold musically as JCS was in its day. Noise/Funk sounds a little stuffy compared with...
...years ago, while he was passionately setting New York City's East Village Bohemian life to song in Rent, the late composer Jonathan Larson helped support himself by creating music that had little to do with the world of the tongue-pierced. He was a children's songwriter, composing music for Sesame Street as well as a number of tunes for kids' book-cassettes, including one based on Steven Spielberg's An American Tail...
There's Haley Barbour scripting things. The soothing, silken song he sings: "It seems as clear as heck to me We need a Houstonectomy." Rejecting Mack, the Rust Belt Four, McCain, Dole picked Jack Kemp, a man who shares your pain...
...this marvelously dry, sly movie is that it's epidemic ... and irresistible." MUSIC . . . PEARL JAM: The guys in the Seattle-based rock band Pearl Jam are only in their thirties, but the group's newest album, 'No Code,' sounds as if they?re having a mid-life crisis. "The songs on the CD flail this way and that, screamingly loud on the vocal-chord stripping song 'Lukin,' restrained and dreamy on the ballad 'Off He Goes,' and fuzzily philosophical on the mostly laid-back number 'Present Tense,' says Farley. 'No Code' is the sound of a band looking...