Word: charting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
According to a chart distributed by the farm, MacIntosh apples ripen by Sept. 1. Fallen and discarded apples crunched underfoot by last weekend...
Some people watch the musical Annie and see a moppet belting out show tunes. Brooklyn-born rapper JAY-Z, whose latest release debuted last week at No. 1 on the Billboard album chart, saw something altogether grittier. "I watched the movie and was mesmerized," he says, referring to the scene in which the orphans sing Hard Knock Life. "They're too strong to let life bring them down. That's the ghetto right there." Inspired, Jay-Z sampled the song on his new album's title track, Hard Knock Life. Needless to say, the tune's original author was somewhat...
...addressing her class of kindergartners on one of their first days at Coyote Creek Elementary School in Highland Ranch, Colo., a spanking-new middle-class suburb of Denver. A dozen neatly dressed five-year-olds sit on the floor in front of Mitchell as she points to a chart on the wall that lists different kinds of "smart." She describes each of them. "Maybe you like to draw pictures. That means you're picture-smart," she offers, then explains what it means to be word-smart, number-smart, body-smart, people-smart and music-smart... "We're lots of these...
...musicians was squandering its talents on increasingly vapid (though profitable) jazz-rock hybrids that came to be called fusion. Known today as smooth jazz, or as "that crap they play when Regis and Kathie Lee go to commercial," fusion continues to thrive; it even has its own Billboard chart. But in more sober musical circles, it is considered a kind of moral stain...
...tour shows: by easing the listener into the complex drum and bass rhythms which are the defining characteristic of Tom Rowlands' and Ed Simons' music. Shortly, a dazzling fusion of "Block Rockin' Beats" and "Not Another Drugstore" dominate the play-back as the well-known beats from the U.K. chart-topper mix with the dope rap lyrics from the song originally found on the "Electrobank" E.P. One of the greatest moments of the album occurs about eight minutes into the first track--an intense distortion is imposed on "Block Rockin' Beats" as it crescendos and eventually relinquishes its dominating role...