Word: wail
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...Petri dish in years--it's an adult bad-relationship tune ("I know I'm alone if I'm with or without you/But just being around you offers me another form of relief") punctuated by a hook-y guitar line and lead singer Jenny Lewis' bittersweet and oft-repeated wail that she's "bad news." It's notably smarter than anything else on this list. But, says Morning Becomes Eclectic DJ Nic Harocourt: "I played it on the show, and I couldn't stop singing along with the 'bad news' part. This belongs all over commercial radio...
...Prince begging from the living room. It starts with a "Come on, baaaaaaaby," proceeds to a line about how "it's undignified to sleep alone" and reaches its climax--yeah, yeah--with a grand moment when the backup singers go "bip-bip-a-bip-a-dee-dip," the horns wail away and Prince slides down the begging scale from falsetto to a great big rumbling roar. It's the best James Brown song in years...
...Between Your Teeth” sounds like Jack White might if he were a girl, and went to art college. But Susman has some vocal chops entirely her own: the supersonic double punch she delivers on “On Parade” is neither screech nor wail, but somewhere between a radar ping and a rock ‘n roll yelp. In fact, for all its artsyness, the music is irrepressibly, slyly cool, from the sly strut that accompanies Mr. Sassoon to the lush indie-pop of “Enter Smiling...
...Ahdout says. "He opened his arms to me as a father," setting the tone for the relationship. By the time they filmed the scenes that show the depth of Behrani's love for his son, says Kingsley, "neither of us was acting." Hear the primal wail that seems to come from the most desperate corner of Behrani's soul, and you'll believe it. "It's all in the moment," says Kingsley. "The reality of tragedy is horrible." But he's shown that it can also be heart-wrenchingly beautiful, even without the happy ending...
Afghanistan, whose headlines for years read like a wail of pain, has had many reasons to cry. Now its citizens can laugh and cry at the movies. The rest of us can cheer. --By Richard Corliss. Reported by Aryn Baker/Kabul