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...this is hardly an effective form of proselytization. The first CD brings us seventeen "classic tracks from the band's five albums." What this really means is that it features the songs most often played on 120 Minutes, with no real regard to what's worth a good god damn. The first seven songs on this disc read like a Buzz Clip line-up: "Here Comes Your Man," "Wave of Mutilation" (not the infinitely better U.K surf version featured in Christian Slater's teen romp Pump up the Volume) and many others better left unsaid. Only until midway through this...
...There's the possibility that no one read the damn thing," he said. "I give them the books; if they don't read it that's their problem. It's the same at this level."CrimsonMelissa K. CrockerPresident NEIL L. RUDENSTINE enjoys a moment of quiet before the year's first Faculty meeting yesterday...
...band that doesn't seem to bother with the whole "tuning" thing, the Lynnfield Pioneers sound pretty damn good. They're a thrashing mess of distorted guitar, dissonant Moog organ, unfettered drumming and delightfully adolescent lyrics praising the virtues of drugs and sex ("she always said she was just the same/she liked tequila and cocaine"). A spirited intensity infused with funkiness and pop sensibility propels their latest effort, Emerge, beyond the banality this formula might suggest--but not very far beyond. About half the songs take off while the rest crash and burn...
...impossible to deny that the Lampoon has been up to some damn funny stuff lately. I'm probably breaking any number of Crimson internal editorial commandments when I say so, but if its recent activity means anything, the semisecret Bow Street social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine seems intent on moving away from its "final-club-lite" reputation and toward a more relevant role on campus...
...bother with this year's festival if you've seen it before or unless you like "South Park." If you're a diehard fan, I can't stop you but, damn it, I tried...