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n. (plural of infidel English)
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Infidels were a Canadian funk- rock band in the 1990s.
The band formed in 1990 when Molly Johnson reunited with Norman Orenstein, her partner in the short-lived 1980s band Alta Moda. The duo originally wrote a number of songs that they planned to offer to Candi and the Backbeat, but got an unexpected response after sending them to the Canadian division of IRS Records, Candi's label: president Paul Orescan had been a big fan of Alta Moda, and wanted to sign the duo to record a new album. Considering Alta Moda to be a finished project, Johnson chose the new name as a tribute to the Bob Dylan album Infidels. They added Washington Savage, Jeff Jones and Owen Tennyson to the lineup, and released a self-titled album in 1991.
The single "100 Watt Bulb" peaked at #25 in the RPM charts the week of November 23, 1991, "Celebrate" peaked at #12 the week of February 22, 1992, "Without Love" peaked at #30 in the RPM charts the week of June 6, 1992 and "Shaking" peaked at #68 in the RPM charts the week of September 12, 1992. Despite the chart success of "100 Watt Bulb" and "Celebrate", however, the album was only a modest seller, peaking at #74 in RPM's albums chart the week of February 29, 1992.
The band won the Juno Award for Most Promising Group of the Year at the Juno Awards of 1992. Later the same year, Johnson and Orenstein collaborated with Meryn Cadell on the non-album single "Courage", a song about the environment. Written for the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy, the song was released on a split single with The Razorbacks' "Land for Dreams" and its video was filmed at the Canadian Museum of Civilization.
Beginning in 1993, Johnson established the Kumbaya Festival to raise funds for HIV/AIDS charities.
The band recorded a second album in 1995, but were faced with label difficulties. The label wanted them to change their name, due to the existence of another band of the same name from Youngstown, Ohio, but Johnson and Orenstein resisted since they were already too well-associated with that name in Canada. As well, the label was going through financial difficulties at the time. As a result, Johnson decided to dissolve the band, and the 1995 album has never been released.
Johnson now performs as a jazz singer.
Infidels is the twenty-second studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on October 27, 1983 by Columbia Records.
Produced by Mark Knopfler and Dylan himself, Infidels is seen as his return to secular music, following a conversion to Christianity, three evangelical, gospel records and a subsequent return to a less religious lifestyle. Though he has never abandoned religious imagery, Infidels gained much attention for its focus on more personal themes of love and loss, in addition to commentary on the environment and geopolitics. Christopher Connelly of Rolling Stone called those gospel albums just prior to Infidels "lifeless", and saw Infidels as making Bob Dylan's career viable again. According to Connelly and others, Infidels is Dylan's best poetic and melodic work since Blood on the Tracks.
The critical reaction was the strongest for Dylan in years, almost universally hailed for its songwriting and performances. The album also fared well commercially, reaching #20 in the US and going gold, and #9 in the UK. Still, many fans and critics were disappointed that several songs were inexplicably cut from the album just prior to mastering—primarily " Blind Willie McTell", considered a career highlight by many critics, and not officially released until it appeared on The Bootleg Series Volume III eight years later.
Usage examples of "infidels".
As it stands, the infidels are able to strike From ranges far beyond our own.
The Redwing System, five transits beyond Alfred, was its closest outpost, and he gathered from the scanty data that the infidels regarded it as a formidable obstacle, even though its fortifications were eighty and ninety Terran years old.
We shall give the infidels one last chance to prove they remain worthy of Holy Terra.
There were over a million infidels on that gem, and not even a single missile platform to protect mem.
The original assumption that the accursed Khanate had conquered humanity might have been an error, but the infidels had certainly been seduced into apostasy somehow.
Lantu tidied up by occupying all the systems the infidels had so obligingly left totally undefended.
If tne infidels ever managed to assemble a real task force, things might get nasty.
If, in addition to this, the Holy Inquisition can bring substantial numbers of infidels to recant and embrace the True Faith, we will acquire large additions to our labor force.
Instead, the infidels seem intent on gathering strength for a heavy blow.
Lorelei, and they might explain why the infidels had conceded the entry warp points.
Until our own fighters can interdict them short of the battle-line, we must assume the infidels will welcome battle in deep space, where they can make full use of their range and speed advantage over our stronger battle-line.
To hold against a determined attack would require the forward deployment of our battle-line, but this would place our slowest, most powerful, least expendable vessels far from retreat should the infidels muster sufficient firepower to break through in strength.
Could the infidels be telling the truth when they say they never heard of the Faith, much less rejected it?
Most of the infidels had already vanished into the heavily-timbered slot of the Rye River valley, leading sturdy Terran mules and New Hebridan staghorns laden with ammunition, small arms, and rocket and grenade launchers.
The man was big, brawny, and dark, and Darhan had seen enough infidels by now to know he was older than the almost equally tall woman beside him.