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Word: surburbia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most of The Hissing of Summer Lawns, however, is not so clearly defined. Joni Mitchell's despair and cynicism about surburbia, her alluding images, are too easily missed--the words trip over each other and get lost. She rarely succeeds at complementing lyrics with music. The bouncy conga rhythms are often too swift a vehicle for the words; and the synthesizer-chorale approach she takes to the more philosophical poems only makes them pretentious or droning...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: Moog and Metaphors | 12/18/1975 | See Source »

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