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The Good, the Bad and the Hideous

(07/21/99 4:00am)

David Foster Wallace is an author whose aggressive imagination and broad-sweeping literary talents consistently produce dazzling results. Reading his prose is like delving into the deepest, darkest waters of vocabulary and syntax; he is a writer of seemingly limitless talent and possibility who also seems to take pride in challenging his readers, or "audience," as he writes in one of these pieces.





Original Soundtrack Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (maverick)

(06/03/99 4:00am)

It's hard to find an above-average movie soundtrack. For this to happen, one of two qualities must be present-either an above-average movie, or music chosen arbitrarily, having absolutely nothing to do with the movie. If this soundtrack holds true to this soundtrack litmus test, then Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me is heading for averageness.


Fountains of Wayne Utopia Parkway (atlantic)

(05/27/99 4:00am)

I'd like to describe the music of Fountains of Wayne as infectious, but I don't mean that in the communicable disease sense of the word. Rather, the music on Utopia Parkway is catchy and fun, while at the same time complex and deceptively baroque. This New York-based quartet has served up a collection of truly magnificent music, employing four-part harmonies reminiscent of great bands of the past, the most striking similarity being the music of the Beatles (a beneficent comparison never to be taken lightly).




Which one is Archie?

(05/03/99 4:00am)

Well now ladies and genitals, it is time for ARCHIE & JUGHEAD's Absolutely Fabulous Coming Out Column. Kudos to those select few who have been cunning enough to figure out that we haven't been working on our discrimination suit against Hooters for the past 12 Sundays. You can come pick up your twack of Blue Beast now.






The Controls

(04/16/99 4:00am)

It's not everyday that a band wrestles with their own personal visions of an imminent eschatology. As their press release states, "Drawing insight from Nostradamus's predictions of a coming global apocalypse, The Controls paint a tense picture that is both bleak and optimistic, describing a world where numbers and technology regulate pleasure." Damn.




Stupid Pictures

(04/02/99 5:00am)

At the Recess music department, we get a lot of mail. Each week we arduously sift through piles and piles of press kits, CDs and photos, looking for something worth writing about. A lot of the stuff we get is simply filed awayain the trash can. But every now and then we come across something interesting, eye-catching and, well, pretty damn funny-looking.