Word: tunefully
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Brave New World, published 61 years ago, and continuing through the summer's box-office behemoth, Jurassic Park. There are mysteries, thrillers, love stories -- even a sci-fi parody of an old pop song ("Weird Al" Yankovic's I Think I'm a Clone Now, sung to the tune of Tommy James and the Shondells' I Think We're Alone Now). Cloning, in fact, has been a fertile enough subject to earn its own lengthy entry in the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction...
...once again time to tune in and listen to Bob Cousy butcher the English language--but in a lovely, Bostonian way. It was time to watch Larry step back and drill the three. Or it was time to stare in amazement as McHale used and abused some over-priced, over-rated rookie in the low post...
...album opens with "My Umbrella," a single which has gained substantial air-time on--you guessed it--alternative stations. The tune has the strong bass essential to alternative songs ranging from L7's "Pretend That We're Dead" to the Spin Doctors' "Two Princes," and features a catchy, somewhat inane, chorus: "Don't let your love/Fall on down on my umbrella." The guitar riffs are well executed if a tad typical, and singer Tim DeLaughter intones the lyrics with the prescribed amount of nasality. The song is entertaining, and "One Through Four" and "Blown Away" follow in the same vein...
...take on alternativity, for the albumcertainly has its share of silly moments. "Milesand Miles of Pain" recalls Guns N Roses' "NovemberRain," with its overwrought, whiny vocals. "TheMorning," an instrumental piece apparently meantto showcase the group's ecological awareness, ismarred by annoying overlaid spoken vocals whichdetract from the simple tune. Yet goofiness atleast gives the band a sense of humordistinguishing it from similar bands; be sure tolisten to the extra piece nine minutes after theend of the last tune, which is crude and strange,but certainly funny...
...matriarch of the family (Judith Malina) is tradition's slave. When she dies, Catherine rids her house of the dark ornaments of Catholicism, deciding to become a middle-class housewife more in tune with the times. The strongest tie is between grandmother and grand-daughter, who have never known each other, but who share a spirit which bypasses the middle-of-the-road Catherine. Teresa reclaims her grandmother's exigent religious fanaticism. But religion liberates Teresa from her present life, instead of tying her down...