Word: instead
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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What seems so strange about the Beautiful South to American listeners is the overriding lack of interest in aural shock. There's no shouting, no distorted guitar noise and rarely an unexpected chord change. Instead, the group's songwriter Paul Heaton rolls out slow, beautiful pop songs backed by melodic tunes that never pretend to be anything but accompaniment. This is not to imply that something is lacking in the music. It is rich, profound and mood-setting-qualities which have made the band's albums bestsellers in their native Britain...
...that even though the Offspring have become mainstream mainstays, their roots still lie in punk. But even as the band seems poised and ready once again to pierce bubble-gum pop as they did on their notorious single "Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)" (off Americana), they decide instead to take the safer route. The album trades blows of intense, adrenaline pumped frenzy with the safer distorted power chords of mainstream rock. The first released single, "Original Prankster" tries to capitalize on the success of "Pretty Fly," simultaneously leaning on its Latin influences, copying its screw-ball sound-bites...
...Instead of winning state championships and being recognized for winning league titles, Rose won one game in two years as a starter...
...type and hand-inked rollers to produce a printed page. And that's not the end of it: Hulsey spends hours afterwards correcting letter alignment, adding titles, colophons and images. It's an ancient process, a relic of days gone by when books were printed completely by hand, instead of cheaply mass-produced...
...With Needham, Mass., where Johnson went to high school, just a short-hop from Cambridge, one might wonder why Johnson ended up at Yale instead of Harvard. Surprisingly, Johnson always preferred Yale to Harvard...