Word: songfulness
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...music is reminiscent of early Johnny Cash; his lyrics, like Nick Drake’s, are literate enough to be considered vaguely poetic on their own. However, Ritter has a voice so emotive that these lyrics can become incomprehensible to the casual listener. One of the more Cash-like songs is “Good Man,” a romantic celebration of music, love, and open spaces that just misses the familiarity of older country rock-n-roll with the addition of a spacey synthesizer. Just after “Good Man,” Ritter touches...
...rabid—I begin to realize that I do care. His tragic hero—though it’s unclear if he’s trying to escape his problems or embrace them—is intense and involving in a manner very rare for a rock song.“Dear God Please Help Me,” follows, which is the most effective track on the whole album. It is sparely orchestrated, with a slight mischievous twinkle that distinguishes the piece from the synth-pop to which Morrissey occasionally threatens to descend and allows the listener...
Let’s try a quick multiple choice question. “Booty Booty Booty Booty Rocking Everywhere,” is: a) the chorus of the popular Bubba Spraxx featuring the Ying Yang Twins song “Ms. New Booty,” b) something you can expect in the spring Expressions show, “Bassline,” or c) both of the above...
...Streets “When You Wasn’t Famous” Dir: Adam Smith Countless music videos and songs fetishize the performer’s own celebrity, but it’s rare that they do so in as self-deprecating and witty way as The Streets’ “When You Wasn’t Famous.” The Streets (the nom de rap of one Mike Skinner) treat us in this video to a lighthearted romp through a high-priced rehab facility, complaining all the while about the camera phones and tabloid reporters...
What this means is that depending on what time you tune in, you might catch a song by “Acid Mothers Temple and the Cosmic Inferno,” or alternatively, Zemlinsky’s “Symphonic Songs” played by the Concertgebouw Orchestra. Come Sunday, you can tune in to hear Reverend Gomes preaching to the fold in Memorial Church; “Crimson Sportstalk” comes on a half-hour later...