Word: opus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that's nothing compared to the "Day in the Life" style piling up of styles and timbres on this album: a smoothly anachronistic analog synth (could it be a Mellotron?) pops up in several songs, and so effectively each time that by the end of the 66-minute Exploder opus you'll probably have moved from wondering how anyone could use a Mellotron sound on a rock record at all in 1994 to wondering why that sound doesn't crop up on every new indie release. The post Pepper pileup reaches its peak on "Saturday's Cool," which...
Nonetheless, Shilts' opus will be around much longer than Michelangelo Signorile's Queer in America. The deterioration begins in the first lines of the introduction. "There exists in America what appears to be a brilliantly orchestrated, massive conspiracy to keep all homosexuals locked in the closet." Four lines later, Signorile's great conspiracy is "a relatively unconscious one, ingrained as it is in our culture...
...Shapiro, like many others, rediscovered it in adulthood. The original attraction in his case was the Baltimore Orioles of the late 1970s. Now Shapiro is more Bird-brained than ever, since Baltimore has erected the neo-nostalgic Camden Yards field, which he saluted in his last baseball opus for TIME...
THOUGH KNOWN AS THE SUPREME VIOLIN virtuoso whose personal eccentricities and wizardly playing combined to make him music's first superstar, Niccolo Paganini was also a superb guitarist. The instrument figured in all his published work during his lifetime except his magnum opus, the ferociously demanding 24 Caprices for solo violin. It seems just, then, that the guitar virtuoso ELIOT FISK has recorded his own transcriptions of the pieces (MusicMasters Classics). What amazes throughout is Fisk's ingenuity in finding the equivalents of, say, legato and ricocheted bowing on his plucked instrument, and his dexterity in executing them with such...
Numerous other styles include paisley, plaid and polka dot; athletic teams (Red Sox and Celtics); and cartoon heroes like the Tasmanian Devil, Opus, Rocky and Bullwinkle...