Word: tune
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...miracle. Their second album, Irresistible Bliss, released in 1996, lost some of the momentum of Ruby Vroom (primarily because of the large number of bitter love ballads), although Soul Coughing found themselves a few steps closer to fame due mostly to the success of the upbeat, radio-friendly tune, "Super...
...Friday Harvard will compete in the New England Championships, one of the major races of the season and typically a tune-up for the prestigious Heptagonals. The Crimson will look to cut its times significantly, and it hopes for a strong showing at the race that will feature over 20 schools from New England...
Playing well and beginning to gel in its final tune-up before its most crucial match of the weekend, the Crimson then turned its attention to the St. Francis team that stood between it and Northerns...
...chorus, slide up scales for an almost uplifting effect. The music, in fact, tends to belie the plaintiveness of the lyrics. How the Goo Dolls write something so dolorous as, "See the young man sitting/In the old man's bar/Waiting for his turn to die" into a tune so whistleable as "Broadway" is a marvel and, perhaps, the saving grace of this album. One might criticize the hackneyed phrasing, the pretentious lead vocals, and the uncreative musicianship, but the upshot of Dizzy Up the Girl is that its melodies are so memorable and euphonious as to shift attention from...
...past ventures doesn't quite reappear, and the song, as do many aspects of the album, sounds halting and deliberate. Q-Tip waxes an eloquent soliloquy in "The Love" about love in all forms, but for every one of these slick arrangements, there is a lame and unmemorable tune waiting to follow it. "4 Moms" is an enjoyable instrumental respite, but the album hits bottom in "Give Me" when Ali Shaheed inexplicably spins in samples from Boyz...