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      <![CDATA[Hey hey, check out OONA's new music video for "I Wanna Know U" -- just saw it posted today, and it's a celebration alright. Look out world, here comes OONA: http://youtu.be/gkagCXqN6mA
        
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      <![CDATA[The reviewer is more interested in being clever than accurate. The music is not excessive nor artificial.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[freakish b]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[if this album's sample driven, I wonder how author would describe something like Girl Talk or My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.....
        
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      <![CDATA[@Rachel Swan - Ok, well the definition at the top of the following link is the one I am most familiar with. I haven't heard it been referenced as a single computer generated sound.
        
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      <![CDATA[@Scuba Steve seems to raise some fair points, although there's plenty of room for opinion in music writing (IMHO) :). So, @Rachel Swan, given my interest in your opinion as a presumably well informed critic, I'm curious what you're hearing/seeing an excess of in OONA's music.
        
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      <![CDATA[@Scuba Steve:<br>
You questioned the way I deploy the term "sample."<br>
It can mean any computer-generated sound, not just a loop filched from another copywritten recording.
        
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      <![CDATA[I've listened to the album and I don't hear any samples. That fact may need to be checked by the author.<br>
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Also I don't hear, in any lyrics of any songs of the album, this celebration of excess that the author mentions.
        
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      <![CDATA[As the SF Chronicle's Jon Caroll once put it, Joy of Cooking was "a remarkable rock and roll band, half ballads and half boogie
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Mona Jo]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[I've seen OONA live 5 times. If watching the heavens of music is like surveying deep space, OONA is already a star - with a different kind of make-up, rich with human truth AND infectious hooks and rhythm.
        
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      <![CDATA[You're spot-on that OONA is brash, saucy, crisp and sharp, and the band blends blues grooves with pop appeal. But anyone who's heard Joy of Cooking's stuff would have to question whether the sizzle, spice and strength of Oona's music and live performance is really "despite her hippie pedigree."<br>
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As the SF Chronicle's Jon Caroll once put it, Joy of Cooking was "a remarkable rock and roll band, half ballads and half boogie, with a driving rhythm section fronted by two swell women, Toni Brown (a smart, crafty songwriter who could evoke sentiment without sentimentality) and Terry Garthwaite (who sings like an angel with dirty wings)."
        
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      <![CDATA[heyo, thanks for reading. hope you judge for yourselves!
        
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    <pubDate>Wed, 29 Dec 2010 13:07:52 -0800</pubDate>
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