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  • The most engaging part of the story for me was the mystery of why Rococo is doing this.

    REVIEW: Forbidden Planets edited by Marvin Kaye 2006

  • Equally, it's hard not to draw the conclusion that the songs from The Suburbs achieve the same cumulative mass-euphoria effect, via a weirder, more nuanced, less obviously bombastic route: one track is fittingly titled Rococo, but Butler performs it with such blunt ferocity that virtually every string on his acoustic guitar is broken.

    Arcade Fire 2010

  • The room was large and well furnished, but the taste was severe, for the style called Rococo was not yet introduced.

    Une fille du régent. English Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836

  • This style was introduced at the tail end of the Renaissance, and was succeeded by an art style called Rococo (1700 - 1800), which included a light playful subject matter.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • This style was introduced at the tail end of the Renaissance, and was succeeded by an art style called Rococo (1700 - 1800), which included a light playful subject matter.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • This style was introduced at the tail end of the Renaissance, and was succeeded by an art style called Rococo (1700 - 1800), which included a light playful subject matter.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • I'll single out "Rococo" for praise as it was my favorite track on the album going into the show and really paid off as a live song.

    Av Sinensky: Arcade Fire at Madison Square Garden 8/4/2010 2010

  • On a song called "Rococo", Butler sings of "the modern kids" who "build it up just to burn it back down" and who "seem wild but they are so tame".

    Arcade Fire: 'The cliched rock life never seemed that cool to us' Sean O 2010

  • I'll single out "Rococo" for praise as it was my favorite track on the album going into the show and really paid off as a live song.

    Av Sinensky: Arcade Fire at Madison Square Garden 8/4/2010 2010

  • Alpha Auer has already blogged about Pandora Wrigglesworth's colossal "Rococo" hairstyle, but I still can't get over it.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Bettina Tizzy 2009

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