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...team has permeated popular culture more than the Yankees. "The Pride of the Yankees," "The Babe," "Bang the Drum Slowly" and "The Scout" all filled the silver screen with pinstripes, and "Damn Yankees" filled a Broadway marquee. And who is the intangible god, the symbol of ultimate excellence in Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea"? The Great DiMaggio. And what written line better sums up the passing of a generation than Paul Simon's "Where have you gone Joe DiMaggio, a nation turns its lonely eyes to you."? Simon was bemoaning the loss of heroes in America...
...Forward--David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash and Neil Young first album together since 1988's faltering American Dream--is grounded in the past. Neil Young, the proclaimed "Godfather of Grunge," actually seems mellow, and the album crosses the line separating eclectic and schizophrenic. It veers from the steel drum band sounds of "Faith in Me" to "Slowpoke," which has a mournful tone that is vintage Neil Young. The saddest thing about this inconsistent reunion album is the fact that it captures little of the passion and innovation that made Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young such an evocative voice...
...tooting and sawing of their neighbors and without losing track of the conductor. If you see them stooping over the drumhead during the concert as though they were whispering into a gargantuan ear, that's because they are testing their tuning. They're singing the pitch softly into the drum, and if it sings back, they know they have it right. A great deal of care goes into this process: as Beaver wryly put it, "If the hand of God comes in a half-step off, it's not too impressive...
...call her the Doctor because she's an A student in all the hard classes, was awkward and unathletic as a freshman and learned that "the way to become part of the In crowd was to join a sport." Two of Sarah's best friends are Lisa Gilbert, a drum major in the band who may be valedictorian, and Ben Hudson, a black senior with a 2.9 GPA who works two jobs to help pay the bills at home...
...dance to it. Tricky ended his set with "Pumpkin," in which he achieves the seemingly impossible task of making a Smashing Pumpkins sample into dubby groove. Halfway through the song, it suddenly morphed into a cover of Eric B and Rakim's "Lyrics of Fury," sped up to feverish drum 'n' bass intensity...