Even if their reign as the biggest band from Sheffield was about to be usurped by Pulp, they still managed to pull out their strongest album in a decade and turn up on Top of the Pops looking as odd, thrilling and amazing as ever.
It was an odd, occasionally thrilling evening, but ultimately a deflating experience.
"Bringing in N.G.S. and doctoring that and then calling yourself a craft distiller," he said, "what's that about?" His gin is also an audacious animal, odd and thrilling.
— Michael Luo Two of the most interesting books I've read lately, a novel and a memoir, both excavate the odd, punishing, and occasionally thrilling depths of mental illness, though in very different ways.
Mr. Scott added that the film managed "to show how calamitous and out of control (and also how thrilling) growing up odd and ordinary can be, without wallowing in its hero's occasional self-pity or condescending to him".
The Odd Couple Dani (Yvette Nicole Brown) is thrilled to get a promotion, but has to find her own replacement to be Oscar's (Matthew Perry) assistant in the new episode.
In a time when covering The Smiths or Joy Division might have been seen by many bands as odd, or uncool, Scott was thrilled to do that.
The otherworldly quality of her performance -- among other things, she's singing in English, and her locutions are deliciously odd -- is a flat-out thrill.
"I can't imagine why anyone would want to read this book," Goodwin concluded, "outside of Fragoso's therapist, members of her family and the odd paedophile looking for a cheap thrill".
Rules Don't Apply is an odd and exasperating film, and just thrilled to play in that tiresome sandbox of the late 1950s/early 1960s, when white male voices were the only ones that mattered.
