Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Apathy is preferable to failure--it's the rallying cry of Generation X, the burned-out, twentysomething, Bart Simpson-loving, B+- hating under achievers. But is this attitude unique to the current crop of undergrads? Or is it a vestige of the '60s, a '90s version of "tune in, turn on and drop...
...agency will fine-tune the Children's Television Act regulations, replace violent programming with quality children's programming, and extend computer networks to the public schools classrooms, he said...
...mood at the Alpine races was exuberant. The frigid temperature -- down to 1 degree F -- seemed only to stimulate flag-waving, cowbell-clanking Norwegians. Before the race they bounced up and down to keep warm -- and to keep time with the weirdly appropriate golden oldies blasting from loudspeakers. One tune, Achy Breaky Heart, seemed a dirge for the brilliant career of Swiss veteran Franz Heinzer, whose bindings snapped as he leaped out of the downhill's starting gate. Heinzer whacked the snow with his poles in fury and three days later announced his retirement...
...short song text whose point is a one-line chorus: then it's on to the next pop song, where they repeat the process. The paradox, if you want to call it that, is that their total simplicity of means ends up with such an emotional wallop: one tune and one line from this record can take over your whole day, if you're lucky. what remember of "Time Expired," for example, consists of the chorus--"Time expired, violation/It's a fucked-up situation"--and the throbbing five-chord riff that comes before and after it, a riff that...
Another thing: these songs the FAST. Slant 6 don't linger on a tune: they move on. It's easy to entirely miss a song or two (and to get surprised by the ones you missed when you listen to the album again). The short songs mesh well with the additional economy of instruments: here's a trio that sounds like a trio, that sounds like there's only one guitar going at once rather than trying as Big Star did to pick a famous example) to fill up the record with layers'n'layers of sound. The economy...