Word: songfulness
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...started my analysis by surveying the things people most want to find. To create my Internet lost and found I queried the Hitwise database for all searches that contained the terms "where is." The most popular "where is" query is a search for lyrics to the song "Where Is the Love," presumably the Black Eyed Peas version. (Catchy tune.) Over the last four weeks, that search was followed closely by searches for various small towns in Utah - Sandy, for instance - perhaps due to polygamist Warren Jeffs' recently concluded rape trial. (Guilty.) One of the most popular "where is" queries, which...
...only bands that takes Wilson’s influence to heart and then expands on it, pushing the conventions of pop music to their outer limits. In large part, that achievement comes because the band never yokes their primal instincts, choosing raw emotive power over restraint in their songs. That’s led to a disparate discography, consisting of eight full-length discs in seven years. As soon as an album’s done, a new batch of songs suddenly crops up, sui generis. Wandering souls can’t sit still, and so the band never encounters...
...matter its quality, gets standing ovations. And at a show by British dance outfit Hot Chip (pronounced by the Francophones around me as “Haute Sheep,” which I think is probably a better name), the Parisian crowd was anything but rude, cheering after every song, infuriatingly permissive of the band’s mere half-hour set and refusal to play an encore after five minutes of hearty applause.I was disgusted; in America, we would have burned the motherfucker down. Maybe Hot Chip escaped unscathed because of their foreign passports. In that sense, Avril Lavigne...
...soft magic to the lo-fi ambiance of his earliest records, buried now below vocal effects and extended (by Beam standards) “jam” sessions. While this diversification of instrumentation isn’t all bad, it’s a bit unsettling at first. Songs like “White Tooth Man” and the quasi-title track, “Wolves (Song of the Shepherd’s Dog),” sound like remastered rarities from mid-period Phish records. Much of the rest of the album just feels busy, like a first...
...Australian knows Banjo Paterson's The Man From Snowy River, but rivers also come up frequently in the poetry of Harry "Breaker" Morant. One of his best-known verses is At the River Crossing. Henry Lawson was another poet who wrote a lot about rivers. A stanza from his Song of the Darling River could apply to most of Australia's rivers. "I drown dry gullies and lave bare hills,/ I turn drought ruts into rippling rills./ I form fair islands and glades all green/ Till every bend is a sylvan scene." Rob Arthur, Melbourne...