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...Ricky Martin. Granted, the group played a decent riff once in a while and certainly were not the worst bad ever to grace the dingy Paradise stage, but they were all but ignored. Even Jimi Haha, lead singer of Jimmie's Chicken Shack, picked up on the unfriendly vibe, saying towards the beginning of their set "Who's the best band at the BCN Xmas Rave? The World is My Fuse! Yeah! Who the fuck are those guys...
...Beck of 1994 would. Beck's first album, Mellow Gold, was seeped in the highly personal and visceral world of grunge: perhaps the linchpin line of "Loser" was "chokin' on the splinters." The album captured a miserable white-trash vibe within a sample- and distortion-laden sound that reeked of personal "Beercan" experience. It was a slightly grating album that was heavy on engineering but still naive--or at least straightforward. With Odelay and now Midnite Vultures, Beck has left these Mountain Dew-soaked roots for something more rarefied and cosmopolitan. Even his voice seems to have gotten higher. Grooviness...
...like both, actually, for different reasons. I mean, every time you play live, you capture that moment, whereas if you're in a studio, you can go back and fix things, but it's a totally different vibe...
...younger than us. Our personal style might heavily influence that West Coast feel. We like smoking, skating, snowboarding. A lot of people on the East Coast think that we have a West Coast sound, but people on the West Coast think we have an East Coast sound. Our musical vibe is probably somewhere in between...
...come out of the trip-hop scene. Countless bands and performers have followed the path he laid out with his work with Massive Attack and his debut album, 1995's Maxinquaye. Since then, Tricky's moved on: his albums following Maxinquaye, including Juxtapose, his latest, largely abandon its mellow vibe for a darker, harder hip-hop sound. The audience that came to see him at Avalon last Thursday seemed to be hoping to sway to the sounds of his first album, by far the most popular work he has done. His live show, however, took pieces of his entire four...