Word: songe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This year's show features a song aboutmenage-a-trois, a character with a speechimpediment and jokes about castration...
...survived what is perhaps the weirdest episode in our political history. Many of us tuned out before the surreal drama came to its predestined end. Yet the impeachment of Bill Clinton was not a dream; it actually happened, and its reverberations will echo well into the future. The song is over, but the melody--a discordant one in this case--lingers...
Jason Zotaley, a 19-year-old pledge, downloaded the dance jams for free over the Internet. Zotaley estimates he has 1,300 songs on his computer, everything from classics by Van Morrison to the latest by the Beastie Boys. And he has never paid for a single song. "I don't know how legal that is," he says with a shrug, but free songs sure are "a good investment." His rap, techno and swing titles go directly from a laptop to the house's deejay booth. These digital music files have replaced compact discs entirely when it's time...
...technology to use. DJ Spooky recently featured his music on a deejay website that encouraged users to remix his work and e-mail the new creations to others; he's now putting the finishing touches on his own site. The California-based company Liquid Audio offers free downloads of songs by groups like Hole that self-destruct after a few days, teasing listeners to buy the whole CD. In the physical world, because of promotion and production costs, musicians release songs in bunches, and fans often have to wait years between CDs. Online, a number of acts, including rockers Todd...
...time when it seems groups are being forced to put out full-length albums with more songs than good ideas, the Beta Band's The Three E.P.s puts together three out-of-print EPs and reminds us of the value of that long-neglected format. No room for self-indulgent extraneous songs here. Each one of the three, Champion Versions, The Patty Patty Sound and Los Amigos Del Beta Bandidos, is a perfectly-formed condensed collection of four songs; together, they point to a firecracker of talent ready to explode. Reminiscent of Gomez's Bring It On in its American...