1. Fleet Foxes (great band, by the way)
2. Paul Simon
3.Bob Dylan, John Wesley Harding, Simple Vinyl Records
As evidence of your perusal, post a comment response to the following questions:
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1. List every adjective from the Fleet Foxes review.beauty, skin-deep, second, gleaming, acoustic, acid-folk, strokes, harmonium, hammered, dulcimer, warming, harmonies, Helplessness, vocalist-songwriter, dazzling, early, spaced-cowboy, romance, dosed, exotica, Underneath, trouble-songs, loaded, blown, battered, impending, mortality, wonder, above, cracks, imagining, chirpy, disarming, young, fighter’s, period-perfect, glow, stubborn, peace, healing, embodied, records, wait, gorgeously, appointed, reduced, rendered, true, young, experienced, holds, and inspiration.
2. For the review of your choice, select a passage ( to paste here and describe the literary and journalistic qualities that make it exemplary. Bob Dylan, John Wesley Harding, Simple Vinyl Records: The music is again a brilliant electronic adaptation of rural blues and country and western sounds. A swaying harp picks out the title track, "John Wesley Harding." A statement is made about the concept of everyday Good and Evil. Harding is Johnny Cash's outlaw figure, "he was never known to hurt an honest man" folk-hero of a different kind, John Wesley Harding." A friend to the poor." Call him Robin Hood if it means more to you. He was offering you "a helping" hand, and was this a man really to be hunted and punished? This passage shows the really intricate parts of the song that would only be identifiable if you heard the song. That makes this a great review, because a review doesn’t need lyrics, especially if it is good. It shows you the facts, and information that you want about the song, and doesn’t clutter you with unwanted info.
1. List every adjective from the Fleet Foxes review.beauty, skin-deep, second, gleaming, acoustic, acid-folk, strokes, harmonium, hammered, dulcimer, warming, harmonies, Helplessness, vocalist-songwriter, dazzling, early, spaced-cowboy, romance, dosed, exotica, Underneath, trouble-songs, loaded, blown, battered, impending, mortality, wonder, above, cracks, imagining, chirpy, disarming, young, fighter’s, period-perfect, glow, stubborn, peace, healing, embodied, records, wait, gorgeously, appointed, reduced, rendered, true, young, experienced, holds, and inspiration.
2. For the review of your choice, select a passage ( to paste here and describe the literary and journalistic qualities that make it exemplary. Bob Dylan, John Wesley Harding, Simple Vinyl Records: The music is again a brilliant electronic adaptation of rural blues and country and western sounds. A swaying harp picks out the title track, "John Wesley Harding." A statement is made about the concept of everyday Good and Evil. Harding is Johnny Cash's outlaw figure, "he was never known to hurt an honest man" folk-hero of a different kind, John Wesley Harding." A friend to the poor." Call him Robin Hood if it means more to you. He was offering you "a helping" hand, and was this a man really to be hunted and punished? This passage shows the really intricate parts of the song that would only be identifiable if you heard the song. That makes this a great review, because a review doesn’t need lyrics, especially if it is good. It shows you the facts, and information that you want about the song, and doesn’t clutter you with unwanted info.
3. Students tend to have difficulty integrating fluid quotations into their own writing. Copy and paste at least 3 excerpts from the 3 reviews that incorporate quoted song lyrics. After each sentence, create a grammatical map of the sentence structure. Example: David Fricke writes, "I wonder if I'll see/Any faces above me/Or just cracks in the ceiling," Pecknold sings in "Montezuma," imagining his deathbed.= Quote+Subject+Predicate+Preposition+Song Title+Participial Phrase. No, you can't use this one. 1.) So, there is this semi-recognizable cat on the front of the album out there in the woods, looking like some friend of Baudelaire, way back in 1844 in "Le Vieux Quartier" of Paris with a few friends from inside the walls. You might well ask, "What's it all about?" = Predicate+Subject+Preposition+Quote. 2.) "It seems like our fate/To suffer and wait for the knowledge we seek," Simon sings amid a sharply syncopated groove and heavenly electric riffs. = Quote+Subject+Predicate. 3.) "If I had an orchard, I'd work till I'm raw . . . and you would wait tables and soon run the store," he sings in the gorgeously appointed title song. = Quote+Subject+Preposition.
4. Copy and paste Will Hermes' thesis statement here. Which of his sentences encapsulates his most profound analysis of the album? Where did you find it? On "The Afterlife," an African-pop-flavored standout from his 12th solo album, Paul Simon describes the wait at the Pearly Gates like it's a trip to traffic court, all long lines, mumbled excuses and jokey asides. (The narrator even tries to pick up a woman while killing time.) But underneath the mischief are serious concerns. "It seems like our fate/To suffer and wait for the knowledge we seek," Simon sings amid a sharply syncopated groove and heavenly electric riffs. "The Afterlife" resolves darkness and light with a tossed-off charm — a specialty of New York poets from Frank O'Hara to Biggie Smalls, including Paul Simon. Simon's first album in five years is full of heavy business: life's meaning, beauty, brutality and brevity. Simon is pushing 70; it's appropriate that he's got mortality on his mind. But the songs rarely feel heavy. Instead, they combine the freewheeling folk of 1972's Paul Simon with the brilliant studio sculpting of Graceland. It's his best album since 1990's The Rhythm of the Saints, and it also sums up much of what makes Simon great. "The Afterlife" resolves darkness and light with a tossed-off charm -- specialty of New York poets from Frank O'Hara to Biggie Smalls, including Paul Simon. Simon's first album in five years is full of heavy business: life's meaning, beauty, brutality and brevity.” This sentence is his most profound analysis of the album. It’s found in the 5th sentence of the passage.
5. If you finish early, proofread your work. Use any remaining time to complete make up work or finish your homework for Thursday.
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