Supergrass, "Evening of the Day", Life on Other Planets.Supergrass supergrass Noun Brit, Austral & NZ an informer who names a large number of people as terrorists or criminals, esp. one who gives this information in order to avoid being put on trial Noun 1. , "Evening of the Day", Life on Other Planets (Island) Supergrass still leads with Gaz Coombes's overdriven guitars, perhaps the only distraction--and admittedly a personal quibble QUIBBLE. A slight difficulty raised without necessity or propriety; a cavil. 2. No justly eminent member of the bar will resort to a quibble in his argument. about how some bands ought to shape their sound--to this superb collection of headlong head·long adv. 1. With the head leading; headfirst: The runner slid headlong into third base. 2. In an impetuous manner; rashly. 3. At breakneck speed or with uncontrolled force. pop concoctions, which, like our last look at them In It for the Money (No. 66), careen among irresistible hooks, lush, dense arrangements, and frantically layered rave-ups. Then they pull one out of the collective hat like "Evening of the Day," its opening lines a straight cadge cadge intr. & tr.v. cadged, cadg·ing, cadg·es To beg or get by begging. [Perhaps back-formation from obsolete cadger, peddler, from Middle English cadgear. from Jagger jag 1 n. 1. A sharp projection; a barb. 2. a. A hanging flap along the edge of a garment. b. A slash or slit in a garment exposing material of a different color. tr.v. and Richards' "As Time Goes By" and the chorus a nod to St. Hubbins and Tufnel's "All the Way Home": "If she's not on the five nineteen/Then I'm gonna know what sorrow means" vs. the 'Grass's "(if) she's not on the three fifteen/Then I'm gonna know what sorrow means". Heady praise, indeed. If you like your Brit Pop fast, loud, raucous, and eminently tuneful, Life on Other Planets will punch your ticket. |
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