Word: songfulness
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...best that's been lost today. Where you really see it in the most emblematic sense is with the absence of of opening titles. They don't do it anymore. Certainly in Family Guy and American Dad, we actually had to fight to have an opening title song. The fear from the network is that somebody somewhere is going to change the channel, and as a result, they are just terrified of the idea of a main title that people might be bored by. What they don't realize is that it's the opposite. It's a drum roll...
...Sixpence-None-the-Richer on another (“Underground”). What’s more, while pushing age 60, he still maintains a smooth voice that makes me wonder why Fleetwood Mac ever had to hire Stevie Nicks. Unfortunately, the album starts with its weakest song. “Great Day” overplays call and response between vocals and guitar. This bluesy shtick is downright irritating when combined with the poppy tempo of the song. Confusion only grows when the repeating chorus, “It was a great day,” changes...
...solo echoes the eerie opening melody, and nostalgically recalls “Fade to Black” off “Ride the Lightning,” almost washing away the grime of suicide. In “All Nightmare Long,” the most fun and traditional song on the album, Hetfield chants, “Still life… / Immolation / Still life… / Infamy / Hallucination / Heresy.” But the band is just so happy to be tearing through a good old thrash tune that the song feels bracing and exuberant. The result...
...unworthy of her!” goes the lament on “Why Does She Stay.” And while he once wasn’t above telling the ladies to look in their girlfriend’s purses for his number, this song reveals a Ne-Yo who’s wracked with guilt over—no joke—not doing the dishes. “I’ve gotta be a better man for her,” he sobs. Okay, so he doesn’t sob—but throughout...
...came to play at Club 47 opened up the eyes of the community to the struggles being faced all across America. “In a week or two weeks or a month’s time you could see a symbol of a great deal of America through song, the labor movements, the wars, economic hardships, the Woody Guthrie songs of the depression, Joni Mitchell just starting to write some of the most amazing music that we’ve had written in the folk genre,” Siggins Smith says. As one of the leaders...