Word: therings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Listening to Rainbow, Mariah Carey's seventh album, it's clear that the best reason to rock this New Year's will be to celebrate the end of the Mariah decade. Her record sales throughout the '90s have grown to rival those of Elvis and the Beatles, and to many...
The songs have been culled from their first four albums, and all tracks are solid Zep hits, including the ubiquitous "Stairway to Heaven." From the smooth "Dazed and Confused," the band's bluesy influence shines through, in almost all tracks, including the laid-back "When the Levee Breaks." Rest assured...
However, the group's work also shines in the acoustic gem "The Battle for Evermore," showcasing the more folksy influence that would pervade later albums, and the downright languid blues-shuffle of "Since I've Been Loving You" is a welcome contrast to thrashing guitars, even if this foray into...
In retrospect, it's certainly not offensive stuff, and incredibly easy to listen to. That said, there are some tracks that just don't quite work. The faint tribal chanting on "Congo" seems experimental for experiment's sake, and the guitars on "Throwing It All Away" are pretty, but the...
This new infusion of fiction into the contemporary biography seems as much a symptom of readership as of much-pondered methodology. It may be ultimately impossible to recreate someone's life in words, and therefore perhaps one might as well add a bit of fiction to a biography. But a...