Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cyberspace, access to the new programming is limited to those computer users who have a direct connection to the Internet and have the software necessary to reach the multimedia offerings on the World Wide Web. (For now, subscribers to Prodigy, CompuServe and America Online need not bother to tune in.) But RealAudio's software can be downloaded for free from Progressive Networks' computer. And although it runs only on Windows-based machines, a Macintosh version is expected next month...
...worry about the quality of a live performance of a band that relies heavily on keyboards and sampling was immediately dispelled when Soul Coughing started playing. The bass and drums seemed much more alive than they do on album. The eerie rhythm-heavy tune "Bus to Beelzebub" was the first song of the set. The performance far out did the album version. The song's chanting, repititious lyrics were intense and entrancing...
Their next tune, "Casiotone Nation," was another example of a song that benefited from live performance. One of the weaker tracks on the impressive 1994 release, Ruby Vroom performed live it rose to another level in terms of energy and potency. The band even fiddled with the lyrics, working "the people's republic of Cambridge" into the song. The lyrics of the song are more of a collage of sentence fragments than a coherent piece. The song's dance-feel really got the croud moving. It was nice to see a (rare) show where the crowd danced, as opposed...
...band used a similar technique later on, breaking into Black Sabbath's "War Pigs" at the end of "Down to This," which closed the band's set. The sample-laden "Down to This" was the most intensely danceable tune of the evening, working the audience into a frenzy that kept them crying for more until the band came out for its first encore...
...fingers/jewels cleaving skin between breasts," "Screenwriter's Blues" is a lyrical masterpiece, a fascinating Beat-inspired attack on the entertainment industry in Los Angeles. The deal pan, nearly-spoken delivery of the lines together with the repeating bass line and horn-like keyboard sounds, created the type of mesmerizing tune that lingers in the subconcious well after the show...