After all, this piece is a waltz, not a dirge.
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Jessica Pratt "Aeroplane" Not gonna lie, I love a good dirge.
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Hughes's words were not just dirge nor were they only jubilee.
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It's a dark, exhausting dirge, dripping with paranoia and ego run amuck.
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The opening of her version is as hymnlike as a funeral dirge.
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But despite Couturissime's initial impressions, Mugler's work rarely evokes a funeral dirge.
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The new permanence that reproduction gives us is the hope contained in Benjamin's dirge.
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"Process" deals with his mother's death, but it's more impressionistic meditation than raw dirge.
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The movie certainly conveys that sense: It plays like a dirge, not a celebration.
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The title track unfurls as a soulful dirge, inviting thoughts about darkness and oppression, before leading into "Lightnin'," which uses a dirge as a springboard — a perfect illustration of Mr. Murray's vision for the blues, which shows up in the liner notes.
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Get a head start by streaming Iris below, and preorder it from Hypnotic Dirge here.
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So, how is this embarrassingly middle-of-the-road dirge version managing to do better?
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Who wouldn't rather have this tune sung to them than that horrible "Happy Birthday" dirge?
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How many ways does the new season of HBO's noir dirge return to familiar ground?
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As this violent year draws to a close, this song became protest, dirge and battle cry.
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At this time of year, their fans' chant sounds less like a cheer than a dirge.
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Instead, in a dirge of a campfire song, the aspirant vacationers tapped smartphones and, occasionally, spoke.
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It had the feel of a dirge, possibly because Fidel Castro had died three nights earlier.
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You cannot bid the wolf to stop its baying, nor the whippoorwill to postpone its dirge.
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My favorite track on the record is probably Forsaken's "Hypnotised," which centered around a sample from Tweet's "Oops (Oh My)," transforming it into a languid drum 'n' bass dirge (or, at least as much of a languid dirge as a drum 'n' bass track can be).
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Instead, it takes the route of Lord of the Flies by way of grief dirge The Leftovers.
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The accompanying noise makes a kind of droning dirge as the throat is opened again and again.
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He provided a haunting a cappella version of the dirge "O Death" and ended up winning a Grammy.
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It's a melancholic memorial to a long life not yet lived, all set to something resembling a dirge.
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Following this metal behemoth, "We Who Are Not As Others" is a swinging dirge with tom-driven interludes.
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Their resilience, buoyed by a powerful father-son bond, lifts the film from the dirge of ceaseless trauma.
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With just two episodes of a lengthy season available, only time will tell if Batwoman becomes a homophobia dirge.
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The tracks themselves are strange: there are two fast thrash-y heavy bangers, one mid-tempo dirge and an instrumental.
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In 2013 Lorde recorded a slow, dirge-like cover for the soundtrack of "The Hunger Games", a dystopian film franchise.
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While there is no dearth of candidates to contest congressional seats, there is a dirge of confidence in those candidates.
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Every year, December's airwaves fill with terrible seasonal songs, from the trite, to the dirge-like, to the inexplicably horny.
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The defiant dirge of Waylon Jennings "Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way" is the essence of punk rock.
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So is the range of emotional registers: His music can be dirge-like, ludic, abstracted — sometimes multiple things at once.
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Some of their most desolate songs are also their chillest, like "Silver," an Americana dirge with Kim Deal on lead vocals.
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A marching band struck up a dirge, and relatives of the deceased raised their arms, wailing and swaying with the rhythm.
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Her rendition of Dylan Thomas's "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night," was an anguished dirge to her late friend.
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It is not a dirge or a Bukowski-like scratching of the groin but an offbeat and plaintive hymn to life.
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But the music is no dirge; it's a sly, New Orleans-tinged mambo full of improvisational byplay, a swinging life force.
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Another highlight is Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003), Tsai Ming-liang's smoldering dirge for a soon-to-be-shuttered Taiwanese movie-house.
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At the end, the characters chant a funereal dirge—accompanied by a solitary drum—signalling an inability to escape their collective fate.
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It's a dirge for the intense cold, which Barclay sorely misses — why is the world now brown in January, rather than white?
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During a climactic passage in the "Dirge" section, Mr. Thibaudet vividly conveys the unsettling nervousness of the music, even during seemingly pensive stretches.
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Every now and then, though, a glistening sweep of harp would cut through the dirge, sounding the possibility of glory in the wreckage.
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Its closing track is a new version of "Red Ford Radio," a singsongy dirge that first appeared on "Go Grey" 10 years ago.
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Instead, the mood was somber as Platform24's staff performed a kind of dirge, reading the names of imprisoned colleagues one by one.
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"We have to be here once again" to sing the "same dirge," Kowlessar, the senior pastor at Dallas City Temple said, opening the service.
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PARELES Profound despair yields to unbreakable resolve in "The Big Unknown," a gorgeous, darkly luminous dirge that continues Sade's gradual and welcome re-emergence.
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In her hands, the song becomes a dirge to loving something that doesn't return the favor, and conveys her resolve to carry on, anyway.
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By chanting "you know the feeling," she makes the track of an anthem of solidarity and humanity than a dirge into the darker depths.
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Instead, we've seen a lot of selfish people in present-day Los Angels and a little bit of Joanie's harrowing futuristic dirge through Montauk.
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Last year's meetings in Las Vegas were like an extravagant party with an empty dance floor and a funeral dirge droning in the background.
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" The music accompanies Pico's sexual yearning and ecological near-despair: "I guess this is a dirge / to the future I thought we could have.
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Traditional New Orleans second line parades are often associated with jazz funeral processions, during which initial dirge music makes way for quicker, more joyful standards.
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He won a Grammy Award for his a cappella performance of the dirge-like "O Death" in the soundtrack, which became a best-selling album.
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Despite the religious element, one would never mistake this for a dirge, and their sound has been known to get the crowds in Shibuya stomping.
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Some songs, like "Chinese Envoy," once a spare, prickling dirge and now a boisterous electro-pop song, are almost unrecognizable in their present-day iterations.
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" That metaphorical dirge may sound familiar: Pico feels like many of us, privileged and powerless, "listening to a podcast on malnutrition / at the Whole Foods.
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Just imagine… There Are Cadavers "Cadavers" is both a dirge for the numerous deceased and an angry screed against the regime responsible for these killings.
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The piano ballad is the closest I can think of that a pop star like Eilish has come to releasing a dirge as a mainstream single.
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It was there, in the untamed center of Netflix's YA dirge, I found the lines of narration that would make me want to throw my laptop.
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The video is accompanied by a soundtrack of a woman singing the national anthem, in a version edited by Ms. Poitras to sound fractured and dirge-like.
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And the same tired old Greek chorus took up the same tired old dirge about James: Why doesn't he take over games when the competition gets tough?
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Solely led now by his longtime collaborator Carla Bley, the band has a new album, "Time Life," named after a tender dirge she wrote in his memory.
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Now led solely by his longtime collaborator Carla Bley, it has a fine new album, "Time/Life," named after a tender dirge she wrote in his memory.
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Van Etten named one of her songs for the instrument, a hazy, anxious dirge about how disorienting it is to finally find the right person to love.
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Eventually, a plunked-out piano theme leads into an angry dirge that breaks into an unabashed jazz romp, before the piece ends in a sweeping, cinematic epilogue.
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Part dirge, part indictment, the series stands out because it insists that we see the boys as they once were and as they always saw themselves: innocent.
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It is a dirge, for sure—one for the hardcore heads—that's bereft of the immediacy of Come My Fanatics or Dopethrone and comes steeped in black despair.
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Crack-Up is a listen-through album, full of sweeping, intense songs that can change from a dirge-like meditation to a drum-based, driving melody without warning.
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The first appears when the words do, in a partbook for lute; it is nothing special, and with its clutch of semibreves moves with a dirge-like tread.
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It's an apology and a confession of numbness and distance, cast as a bluesy dirge with discreetly hovering strings and extended solos from Mr. Kiwanuka's cutting lead guitar.
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Relentlessly introspective throughout, the songs range from 60s baroque to pop-industrial dirge to shambolic beats-driven twee that wouldn't be out of place on the Kids soundtrack.
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It's clear that this isn't a funeral dirge; instead, at its darkest it's a moribund celebration—a smirk and an airhorn blast in the face of impending doom.
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Solely led now by his longtime collaborator Carla Bley, the band has a fine new album, "Time/Life," named after a tender dirge she wrote in his memory.
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Few songs here achieve the structural elegance of "XO Tour Llif3"; it's almost jarring when the Weeknd shows up on the excellent "Unfazed," a creamy, dirge-like collaboration.
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JON CARAMANICA A rock dirge with frequent grunge explosions built in, "Lies" is mostly sung in tandem by Asha Lorenz and Louis O'Bryen of the London band Sorry.
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Washington (CNN)If President Donald Trump's winter was a dreary dirge of special counsel suspense and border wall bitterness, his spring is shaping up in far more royal fashion.
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But it's here, in the movie's longest section, that this repetitive dirge — inspired by a 2013 article in The New York Times — gains thematic heft from exceptionally strong performances.
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CARAMANICA Handclaps are all that accompany Jacob Banks's deep, husky baritone as "Be Good to Me" begins, making it sound as if it could be an old traditional dirge.
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Pedro the Lion: Phoenix (Polyvinyl) Whether praising Christ or excavating angst, David Bazan has always been a natural-born depressive—his Christmas album does "Jingle Bells" as a dirge.
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The nine-song set (all except the Nelson tune co-written by Stapleton) is brimming with blues riffs, heartbreak and loss, including "Death Row," a dirge that closes the record.
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"The Big Ship" is the banger, a grandiose instrumental dirge that's hopeless, hopeful, happy, sad, and somehow always seems to get a speck of dust into both of my eyes.
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JON PARELES Jacob Banks makes a grandly abject apology in "Unknown (to You)," a gospelly dirge with tolling piano chords and swelling strings behind his ever more desperate baritone growl.
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This is of course part of the story of being black in the United States, which perhaps makes the movie sound like a dirge when it's more of a reverie.
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The ponderous music that blares when Arnold's phone rings is amusing, and then it's abruptly not, having transformed, call after call, into a dirge, a requiem, a discordant family bleat.
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In the premiere episode, the soundtrack bops from a Beyoncé anthem to a Megan Thee Stallion hot girl jam to Danish singer Agnes Obel's crying-alone-in-my-room dirge.
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They were there to mourn Mr. Seidenberg, who died this month at 64, but the gathering was also a dirge for the poetic notion of New York that he represented.
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At one point in the video, which has a mournful dirge as a soundtrack, he emphasizes the importance of historical memory in preventing tragedies like the one the camp witnessed.
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This might happen best in "Slow," which starts with tolling piano chords, like a dirge, until Mr. Richardson unspools his complex, circular melody in tandem with Mr. Metheny and Mr. Waits.
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Noisey: Let's get the more formal talk out of the way: what's the "big picture" message when it comes to Primal Rite, and more importantly, your new LP, Dirge of Escapism?
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Not that Palmyra's remaining residents weren't sincerely chanting "God save the Army!" at the close of the tinny martyrs dirge, the concert's opening number performed by the police and army band.
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Then they can watch the 31-year-old performance artist Mur sing "I Should Not Watch the Bachelor," a dirge he composed after binge-watching one "Bachelorette" season over two days.
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Even dirge-like apocalyptic works like Cormac McCarthy's The Road and Alfonso Cuaron's film Children of Men have endings that temper the misery of their worlds with a sense of possibility.
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"Chesterfield King" would be the title track of a five-song EP and also make its way onto Bivouac, the sole pop song on an otherwise dark, dirge of an album.
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The violent booms of war went quiet, and for the first time in more than two years, church bells pealed, the sounds echoing like a dirge through the ravaged and empty town.
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He shouts at his Amazon Alexa to play his favorite Leonard Cohen song, "Everybody Knows," which is a bleak dirge about systems being rigged, about the world never falling in one's favor.
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And in that spirit, the wispy 23-year-old launched into a dreamy cover of Joe Cocker's "You Are So Beautiful," that dirge-like Idol mainstay that's been batted around for years.
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Raised voices, sirens, drilling, buses screeching to a stop and puffing away again, a dirge of public service announcements and endless beeping all clog up airspace like dead leaves in a drainpipe.
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SONANCE contributes "Under and Under," an atmospheric, triumphant dirge reminiscent of Neurosis' slow-building tectonic shifts, before it throws us for a loop with a burst of chaotic noise and drowned vocals.
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The only song that affected me was "Worried Shoes," which whispers like a carousel dirge for the longings and hang-ups of a depressive mind spinning on an axis of self recrimination.
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This time "A Little Uncanny," which compares Ronald Reagan unfavorably to Jane Fonda without falling for either, is nothing like a dirge, and neither is "Rain Follows the Plow," which meditates on sin.
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Originally released as a funereal synth-laden dirge on 1984's Various Positions, he spent years tinkering with the track during live performances in a relentless pursuit to unlock its full melodic potential.
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The aforementioned tune sees Cowgill haul out his best Type O Negative vibes, then immediately stride into the dusty spaghetti Western dirge "I Wanna Die at 69," replete with his inimitable throaty growl.
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The officer in the front seat synced his mobile phone to the police radio and sang along, karaoke style, to a popular rock dirge by Da Zhuang, with lyrics rolling up his screen.
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Co-written with and produced by her older brother Finneas O'Connell, Eilish crafts music for permanently grey skies using moody, heavy synths, creating a dirge that's in diametric opposition to her breathy, girly voice.
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After what felt like an intolerably long hiatus, one of the most promising new grindcore bands of the new millennium, Wormrot, is finally poised to release their third full-length since 2011's Dirge.
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Their gritty tone and doomed, dirge-like tempos make for a riveting dichotomy; at times, it's low and sinister enough to suffocate a listener, then elsewhere, the relatively ambient reprieves allow moments of respite.
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"DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE" — "ACH, ICH FÜHL'S" Mr. Jacobs recalled getting into a heated discussion with the director of the Aix-en-Provence Festival about the tempo of this famous aria, usually taken as a dirge.
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When "Ingénue" was released in 22016, with its dirge-like anthems to love and longing, the idea that a thrillingly sexual, openly gay and very butch woman would become a pop idol was seismic.
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Shakespeare, for example, often put "and" next to "with"—Claudius marries Gertrude "With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage", Old Hamlet's ghost "Appears before them, and with solemn march / Goes slow and stately".
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It's just the unsettling starting and stopping of a handful of instruments, a world forever on the brink of a funeral dirge or the dead silence of the tomb, but never quite committing to either.
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The late-breaking nature of the state's political culture lends the poll outsized influence, with the power to fuel a last-minute surge in the state or can be an early dirge for candidates struggling.
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Mr. Jackman's charm can lighten the glummest dirge, but for comic-book agnostics the real appeal is Logan's reluctance to get involved, an ambivalence that can feel familiar to viewers exhausted by the same fight.
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Synagogue services on Tisha B'av are often lit only by candlelight and feature readings from the Book of Lamentations, also known as Eicha in the Hebrew Bible, which are chanted in a mournful, dirge-like style.
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Starting with simple bells and piano and moving into a spare, near-monotone dirge, this cover of "Polly" crescendoes into a cacophony of screaming echoes that add an extra layer of ominous edge to Nirvana's original.
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The opening track, "I Am All That I Need/Arroyo Seco/Thumbprint Scar," careens from dreary, self-doubting dirge to bright, breathless acoustic rocker and back multiple times before strings sweep in like a soothing balm.
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That means an "O Come All Ye Faithful" that's more unsteady dirge than regal announcement, and a "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" that, thanks to the appealing drag in her vocals, is tranquil, cozy and flirty.
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Meanwhile, Senator Collins subjected us to a slow funeral dirge about due process and some other nonsense I couldn't even hear through my rage headache as she announced on Friday she would vote to confirm Judge Kavanaugh.
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The politics around guns have changed in recent years, recast by a burst of student activism, deep-pocketed allies and a steady dirge of grim headlines from schools, churches, concerts — and now a Virginia Beach municipal building.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. exchange-traded fund with an innovative strategy is sticking to its bet the music will stop for some dividend-paying companies, even as its own performance has the tempo of a funeral dirge.
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"Weeknights" is an almost Mogwai-ishly intense dirge, complete with an orchestra to really ramp up the tension, with Laverne running through the physical symptoms of what sounds like the worst existential dread-inducing hangover known to humanity.
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He's all over the place here, redefining the King Dude sound whenever he feels like it, and circling back to more familiar, lovelorn territory on the wine-stained closing dirge "Shine Your Light," his shuddering baritone holding court throughout.
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Other highlights included "Light of the Seven," from last season's finale, which built from a plaintive piano figure into a pulsing dirge as the stage flooded with green light, representing the "wildfire" that incinerated the Great Sept of Baelor.
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All in all, it's a refreshing change of pace from the conventions that have come to define the superhero movie generally — and a major improvement on the heavy-metal dirge that has so far defined the DCEU under Zack Snyder.
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The charmingly raw bluegrass and folk parts are given space to breathe, bleeding into the black metal sections in a way that feels organic and necessary (and guest vocalist Kendal Fox steals the show on the delicate, cloudy dirge "November's Cold").
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Her song "Woodstock," which became a hit for Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, was written in her hotel room, watching the festival on TV. She intended the song to be a "dirge," not the anthem that it became in others' hands.
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KANSAS CITY AREA TECH COMPANIES: A. Garmin headquarters, B. Oracle, C. Dell EMC Corporation, D. Accenture, E. Black & Veatch, F. Sprint headquarters, G. DST Systems In Kansas, the tech industry's gripe about the shortage of qualified talent is becoming a full-throated dirge.
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One wonders, then, if Discerens's vision of the future, especially in non-Western countries, is like Korean artist Park Chan-Kyong's slow-moving dirge to death in his video "Citizens Forest" (2016), which references all the major events of trauma in Korean history.
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Their latest album, Transfiguration, is a sludgy, hopeless dirge that often threatens full collapse (as in the neurotic, off-kilter "Hall of Mirrors") or offers tense, lingering notes to beckon you in closer (as on the mediative post-metal gloom of "Easter Waster").
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ASAP Rocky appears twice: on "Groupie Love," one of Ms. Del Rey's many songs about the perils of romance with a musician, and on "Summer Bummer," which brackets ASAP Rocky's praises with a piano dirge about not being able to let go.
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On the way to the finale, Cats requires audiences to sit through slapstick numbers by Rebel Wilson and James Cordon (both playing cats whose main traits are their weight and laziness) and deeply serious dirge-like songs sung by Dench and McKellen.
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So "Now You Know," Mary's deliciously brassy effort to buck up Frank and bring down the curtain at what used to be the end of Act I, is rendered here as a mid-show dirge, exposing subtext that was better off sub.
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"Warszawa", the following track, is an ominous synthesizer dirge—possibly inspired by the desolation he saw on a trip to Warsaw, Poland—and the subsequent tracks follow a similar model, all moody, spacious sound landscapes with bits of synthesizer, saxophone, drum machine sprinkled in.
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In honouring the time-old tradition of the official tournament song, they've mercifully avoided the obvious pitfalls of asking Katherine Jenkins to warble an operatic dirge alongside a child choir, or getting Goldie Lookin' Chain to do a football-themed rap remix of Myfanwy.
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It's really not a novel in which (snore) A and B do X, Y, Z. It's more like a polyphonic dirge for an America that has perhaps never lived anywhere but in the imagination of those of us who keep fighting for it anyway.
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On YouTube, you can find a handful of videos of the two men touring in the late 2000s, singing a version of "Hunger Strike," the elegant dirge originally performed by Mr. Cornell with Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam (in the supergroup Temple of the Dog).
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From an overdone trailer featuring the the requisite "Haunting Cover of a Popular Song"—a nonsensical "I Think We're Alone Now" dirge—to a version of Colonel Sanders that mixes Hal Holbrook intonation with Stephen Root delivery, The Hard Way is consistently weird and charming.
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In a few years, the Tennessee Valley Authority would finish building the Kentucky Dam and, in a Great Depression dirge come to life, Birmingham would be submerged, gone forever (though rumor has it that you can still see foundations and roads when the water level is low).
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After watching Coon commune with her darkest parts for years between apocalypse dirge The Leftovers, apocalypse blockbuster Avengers: Infinity War (where she played the darkly-named Proxima Midnight), dark FX comedy Fargo, and, now, The Sinner, it seems even the actress herself if ready to laugh.
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He began his recording career with three little-heard 45s released in the early 1960s, and he made his proper debut with 1966's "Solitary Man," a brooding pseudo-dirge sung from the perspective a James Dean-type loner with an inexplicable knack for pop hooks.
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Aggressively atmospheric opener "Tower of False Cleansing" gnashes away in an ice-cold mid-215s black metal furor, while "Morbid Oaths Fall From Wicked Tongues" is a mesmerizing dirge that snaps to attention midway through, charging headlong into discordant, howling chaos with a beautifully clean finish.
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That weight sinks deepest into the ominous tension between the understated melodic riffs smothered in reverb, accompanied by patient, simple drum beats, and the drawn-out, hypnotic dirge summoned by guest vocalist Laurie Shanaman from Ails (who are also incredible, and who I've also gushed about here).
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Now our heroes have to care even less than that The poem concludes with a long litany–or perhaps dirge–declaring "the 90s will be the last nostalgia" with the final line stating, "we're done feeling that way," as if nothing authentic can be experienced or felt now.
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Other tracks on the album treat drone warfare, government and corporate surveillance, and state-sanctioned execution with the same jarring plainspokenness; there's even a chant-like dirge called "Obama," where she outlines all the ways she perceives that the president has failed to live up to his campaign promises.
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They've since released a couple of fantastic seven-inches, signed to Revelation Records, notched a tour with Power Trip (upon which we grew closer as friends), and are now gearing up for the release of their debut LP, Dirge of Escapism (out January 26—we're streaming it in full below).
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Among the treasures he discovered were the city's financial records for the funeral of Abraham Lincoln — held at City Hall on April 183, 218 — including the undertaker's bill for $22013,22013 and another bill, for $20, from James Ayliffe of Trinity Church for composing a funeral dirge and playing the church's chimes.
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While no known sheet music accompanied the impeachment of Andrew Johnson, there are two semi-classic tracks from the Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton investigations -- Roy C. Hammond and the Honey Drippers' funk-dirge "Impeach the President" from 1973 and Texas Bluesman Larry Shannon Hargrove's "Leave Bill Clinton Alone" from 1998.
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Julius McMichael's spectral falsetto lead on the Paragons' "Florence" casts us off the shore of the speculative present and maroons us in a pillowy intertime, all velvet and sateen and crushed corsages on the scarred basketball dance floor, a ballad that keeps falling into dirge cadence, hovering between the aurora borealis and the void.
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Dewey Redman's tenor sax roughs up the alto/trumpet/violin-wielding leader, Charlie Haden bows darkly more than he plucks staunchly, and the drummer is 12-year-old Denardo, rumbling irrepressibly all over nine titles that are sometimes also tunes—"New York" and "Broken Shadows" cross-referential, "Song for Ché" a dirge to remember.
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His work is as likely to be featured in the credits of "The Lego Movie 2" ("Super Cool," a collaboration with the pop star Robyn and the comedy trio the Lonely Island) as it is to appear on an album of songs inspired by the Alfonso Cuarón film "Roma" ("Tarantula," an echoing and apprehensive electro-dirge).
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Pedestrian This new band is personnelled in part by people who have been involved in the local scene for a long time in non-musical ways (Victoria, photographer; Chelsea, illustrator; Andrew, who purportedly learned guitar for this band.) They have a primitive and loose vibe; the music switches between mid-tempo dreariness with affected vocals to up-tempo pogo dirge.
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When Kris Kristofferson wrote, and Janis Joplin sang, the poignant ballad "Me and Bobby McGee," neither could have foreseen that its signal line, "Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose," might one day—thanks to anti-union corporate interests, right-wing Republican politicians, and now activist Supreme Court judges—be a fitting dirge for the American working class, and potentially American democracy along with it.
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It's the roughest city you've ever missed... from afar, but in Bay Area-based animator Elliot Lim's stunning tribute to David Simon's award-winning HBO series, The Wire, a certain familiarity pervades the ever-seedy atmosphere, flipping The Blind Boys of Alabama's Season 1 take on Tom Waits' modern dirge "Way Down in the Hole"—the series' "theme song," if you could call it one—into a motion graphics masterwork that radiates with the warmth of Margaret Kilgallen, despite the desaturated, deadly subject matter.
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Last season, we were treated with Jane Chapman (Shailene Woodley) spinning in rage to the B52's "Dance this Mess Around;" a melancholic drive with Madeline Martha McKenzie (Reese Witherspoon) along the cliffs of Monterey with Alabama Shakes's "The Feeling" injecting the gray veneer of the Bay Area with a dose of introspection; Bonnie Carlson (Zoe Kravitz) singing a rendition of Elvis's "Don't" in a minor key; Celeste swaying to Charles Bradley's "Victim of Love," a dirge that is equal parts maddening in its repetition as it is devastating in its circularity.
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