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Markus: Joakim [Joakim Berg, the singer/songwriter] writes most of the material. He always does it with an acoustic guitar. They're almost always really slow songs. He comes with the songs to rehearsal, and we try to arrange them, pull up the tempo a bit. "If You were Here" was originally a ballad, really cheesy...
Both teams played their up-tempo style from the opening tip. The Huskies got their only lead of the half early on Walters' 3-pointer, but Holdsclaw scored the next three baskets as part of a 10-2 run capped by Kellie Jolly's four-point play...
When they do slow down, the dynamic pulse is still dominant, but they slip into a slower reggae sound which is very prettily bouncy at the knees. "The Real Me" has singing guitars backed by a relentless tempo and "Fly Daze" is down-right beautiful, making two very atypical lovesongs in the album...
...talented Brent Carver and Carolee Carmello do their level best to bring Leo and Lucille to life, but, as written, their characters are fatally uninteresting. The music and lyrics, by Jason Robert Brown, catch fire only in a couple of disposable up-tempo numbers (Mary Phagan getting wooed by a suitor on the trolley) and turn gooey in big ballads like All the Wasted Time, sung by Lucille and Leo in jail. Prince's staging is elegant but rather quiet, the set dominated by a giant oak tree from which Leo will eventually hang. No one wants a glitzed...
...turns the puky green of motel lighting into a circle of Hell, and it features a busy sound track of rattlesnakes and buzzing flies--moral decay in the desert. Everything else is defiantly same-old. This Psycho is radical because it has not only the dialogue but also the tempo of a film almost 40 years...