Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...commentary is punctuated by abrupt, shrill peel-outs from the starting gate. He points out the double-barrelled traffic light between the two lanes. "Basically, it's a matter of reflexes. The top yellow light comes on when the cars can advance to the start line, then the light below comes on when they're both ready to go. Then the lower lights go on: one, two three. Then the lowest light, the green light, flashes and you just smash the accelerator into the floor...
...worst part of the show was its abrupt end. After an hour and a half, Better Than Ezra, still enthusiastically jamming and performing, left the stage. With the energy and power of their show, the audience seemed to expect a long encore. Instead, the band came back on stage, and Griffin announced that they have to wrap the show up because the Avalon management had informed them of a scheduled disco dance that was starting in 10 minutes. As a result, Better Than Ezra was forced to cut back and rush through their encore, losing some of their entertaining zeal...
...times, the utilization of these elements is so abrupt that it cannot help being jarring, as if Lyne is announcing, forcefully, that he is taking artistic license. Yet, his point is well-taken that we are observing the individual experience of a man whose emotional experience is unlike any other, particularly as he plunges deeper and deeper into a state of madness. When Humbert suffers from these bouts of insanity, twisted camera angles and the sudden jangle of discordant music cut into the narrative...
...mill mainstream alternative band. Nothing extraordinary is done here in the way of instrumentation, and most songs are similar in their construction and execution--verse, verse, bridge, verse. "Extra Pale" is a brief flash of distinction in the obscurity created by so many homophonic songs with its abrupt pauses and nicely-incorporated backup vocals. Those who might be tired of "Iris" will welcome its mandolin and violins to break up the thickness of guitar, bass and drums characterizing the rest of this album. The strangest quality of the music of Dizzy Up the Girl, however, is just how darn upbeat...
...well-arranged it was easy to ignore their startling edges of regret and emotional maturity. Discovering his work last year for the first time, I found myself caught up in the sensitivity of his songs, which could pack an lifetime of hurt into a flip rhyme and an abrupt meter change. Only Bacharach, for instance, could interpose the cheerful mood of "Do You Know the Way to San Jose?" with its underlying theme of disillusionment and the unspoken death of big dreams; while the arrangement glistens with organ bursts and the light trace of strings, the tragic subtext plays...