Word: twangs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Indeed, the voice of lead singer (and guitarist) Dean Wareham, so soothing and haunting on recordings, was reduced to a nasally twang straining to hit the top notes. While this may have been part of the band's charm, I found it difficult to listen to and rather annoying. The sedentary nature of the crowd was also unnerving. While Luna is not a band to which one dances madly, sitting down and occasional nodding meant the excitement inherent in concerts was absent...
...straightforward enough to instantly stick in one's head yet sophisticated enough to instantly trigger one's imagination is a minor miracle, not to be overlooked. It calls for a precise interplay of uncomplicated but carefully wrought elements: the tensely chromatic rise and fall of the bass, the edgy twang of crafty appoggiaturas, wailing brass punctuation in all the right places. It's just so. What the music doesn't need is a techno beat underneath...
...others will be posted as they arrive. I just got myself dropped. As in push-ups. As in on the floor of the drill sergeant's office while the afternoon football game - oh, the outside world! - murmured off to the left. "Ged down dere," he drawled in his Philippines twang, and we did, me and my bunkmate, the one who'd gotten us in trouble in the first place. The one I'd insisted on joining for the fun of it. To see what it was like to get dropped, or burned, or smoked, by these big scary drill sergeants...
Former roommates and teachers recall Gore's pronounced twang, as compared with the halting Middle Atlantic English he speaks today...
...voice--subtly assertive, and less country twang than cool jazzy pop--hints that, at 42, the tall blond from Ohio has knocked around long enough to have seen and learned a few things. For example: the precarious balance, in matters of love, between whining and wisdom. The people in Richey's songs, as in so much country music, are in rehab from life--nursing themselves out of a heart hurt or taking a baby step back into the big bad world...