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Because it’s simple, because it’s catchy, this is the music we export in mass quantities. Why should that be surprising? It’s the music we consume in large quantities at home. What we often forget is that despite all the high culture from other countries, they produce their share of bad stuff too. I’m traveling around Europe to sample good food, see fine paintings, and examine classic works of architecture. Even back in the 16th century, before America was a country, I’m sure that for every...
...songs by 15 bands on this album offhandedly mix genres that until recently were oil and water: pop, punk, rap and heavy metal. This practice has become as de rigeur as nipple rings for bands over the last couple years, but it's easy to forget how alien it was to audiences of the recent past. Throughout the bulk of the '90s, the perceived incompatibility of these genres was more than musical; it was subcultural. The cheerleader listened to pop, the wannabe-street kid listened to rap, the aspiring Sundance auteur with the sideways haircut listened to punk. When...
...That's fine. But don't forget about writing good songs while you're busy making sure every genre feels included in the conversation. From Blink-182's "Every Time I Look at You" to Sum 41's "Fat Lip" to Jettingham's "Cheating" the mode is uptempo, plaintive but not gloomy, a little angry but good-humored. For all that blending of rap and metal and punk, they're still craftsmanlike pop songs, peppy, hook-centered, reasonably entertaining. None of them are insufferable, but the only one that totally kicks ass is American Hi-Fi's "Vertigo," which happens...
What about "spot training" to build muscle or lose fat in just that part of the body? Forget it, says Allan Goldfarb, professor in the exercise and sports science department at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. Developing a toned stomach requires not just abdominal exercises but also a low-fat diet and lots of whole-body aerobic activity. "Typical stuff," he says, "that you've heard a thousand times before...
This all-star brainchild of Damon Albarn from Blur; Dan (the Automator) Nakamura; Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz from Tom Tom Club; and Tank Girl animator Jamie Hewlett is technically a concept album: the CD plays a cartoon on your computer. Well, forget the 'toon and listen to the tunes, for this is the most imaginative pop record of the year. Nakamura's beats are wonderfully atmospheric and danceable; Del Tha Funky Homosapien's playful rhymes are the perfect foil to Albarn's ennui-filled vocals, and Weymouth's giant bass whomps away throughout...