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...begins with a bright gospel cadence, which rings in the air for a second before ODB enters and brings the record down into the gutter, where it stays for another 12 tracks. From that moment on, it’s all crazy laughs, bizarre chants, and Ol’ Dirty??s trademark off-key, off-kilter vocals. ODB’s hoarse, strangely resonant voice is in full effect, veering unpredictably from off-key wailing to deep, eerie harmonization. The concept of dynamic variation is anathema to him: for ODB, if it’s worth saying, it?...

Author: By Tom C. Denison, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: NEW MUSIC: ODB | 11/8/2006 | See Source »

...Summer”’s threadbare production values. Unintended instrument distortion, a persistent hiss, and echoing vocals all evidence that these recordings were made in hole-in-the-wall clubs with lousy sound systems.   Some will say that this “dirty?? production is an integral part of the Oldham experience: it accurately represents the experience of watching a show in tiny, smoke-filled, honk-tonk. But when musicianship of this caliber is on display, clarity is preferable to authenticity. Authenticity isn’t something Oldham has to worry about any longer...

Author: By Bernard L. Parham, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Summer in the Southeast | 11/17/2005 | See Source »

...theory goes that as demand for RECs rises, wind farms become more lucrative, in turn enticing companies to build more of them and reducing the nation’s consumption of “dirty?? energy...

Author: By Anton S. Troianovski, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: College To Vet Wind Energy | 12/6/2004 | See Source »

Perhaps this isn’t so odd. The benefits of “talking dirty?? have been explicated in countless Cosmo and Glamour pieces, alongside other secrets that men don’t want women to know. In this wild, fetishized world, am I then really so strange? Yet my obsession has nothing to do with sex. In fact the raunchiest of rap’s sex-jams won’t have the slightest effect on this particular fetish...

Author: By Christopher A. Kukstis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Confessions of a Feminine Cursing Fetishist | 11/5/2004 | See Source »

...through a time warp: the whole place looks pretty much exactly as it’s looked for decades. (And the bathrooms look like they haven’t been cleaned in just as long.) Nonetheless, with all its flaws, the De Anza drive-in—decaying and dirty??stands as a bold testament to a disappearing...

Author: By Benjamin J. Toff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: My Last Picture Show | 4/29/2004 | See Source »

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