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...surprise marathoner of that dazzling quartet. In his plays (A Question of Attribution, The Wind in the Willows), film scripts (A Private Function, Prick Up Your Ears), TV dramas (An Englishman Abroad, Talking Heads) and frequent pieces in the London Review of Books, one can hear the thin voice of the last country parson. That's Bennett at 60-comic laureate of the cramped, considerate English temperament...
...coming. The four band members-singer Darius Rucker, guitarist Mark Bryan, bassist Dean Felber and drummer Sonefeld-got together at the University of South Carolina in Columbia in the mid-1980s. Rucker likes to sing after taking a shower and, thanks to his loud voice and the dorm's thin walls, his habit became well known-and, surprisingly, well liked. Says Bryan, who lived down the hall: "I'd hear him and think, 'He's got a really great voice.'" Bryan was learning to play the guitar at the time, and pretty soon the two were performing cover tunes down...
Here is another list: Roger & Me, The Thin Blue Line, A Brief History of Time, Visions of Light, 28 Up, It's All True, Paris Is Burning, The Wonderful Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl. These are among the most acclaimed documentaries of the past decade. And none was even nominated for an Oscar...
Each song has a good joke, but unfortunately many of them have only a few clever lyrics that are used ad nauseum. The song "Dead Dogs" has six words, and even fewer chords. The charm of some tunes, while ample at first, quickly wanes as the band beats a thin joke to death. The listener discovers that he can only hear the words "I'm killing all the fucking hippies" so many times. Frequently aware of this weakness, Butt Trumpet saves itself with brevity. Only two of the songs on the album are longer than three minutes--most are even...
...absence of balance and a conspicuous lack of preparedness marked the Vivaldi. Trampler could only elicit a thin, bare sound from his period instrument even in the most declamatory of the solo passages. Metamorphosen dutifully played the accompaniment--an unusually sharp and pointed one--at exceedingly low volume while Trampler edged along, often missing articulations and intonations. The tuttis, however, brought the booming force of more modern string instruments to bear against Trampler's tiny sound in an almost embarrassing contrast...