Word: funke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...albums range from wildly complex jazz to spaced-out noodling to bubbling funk, Miles' trumpet remains the sole constant. The beautiful melodies, brilliant timing and phrasing that his fans loved never goes away, it's just in a changed context. On the albums, it is the horn that stays the same--a steady reminder that Miles was not going to leave anything he'd learned behind...
...when the production does match the intensity of Busta's delivery, great music is created. On tracks like "Turn It Up" (which uses a sample from Al Green's "Love and Happiness"), Busta's hyper-kinetic word play is wedded with an inspired groove to make for bass-heavy, funk perfection. Other stand-out tracks include "So Hardcore" and the title track, in which Busta mixes his fractured rap flow with his best Motown croon, punctuating it all with an indecipherable refrain (a la Missy Elliot's infamous...
...Broadway offer today? As many revivals as new shows, if you exclude from "new" the epics (a la Cats) that have been running so long they need reviving. The fact that last season's big noise was a replay of the 1975 Chicago might have left Broadway in a funk. Instead, it has sent producers to the musical trunk, foraging for A Funny Thing...
...rate. In '81, the S&P 500 plunged 15% in six weeks. Later the markets took off as investors sought low-tax opportunities. The '78 sell-off paved the way for a two-year runup that enabled the S&P 500 to snap out of a 14-year funk. The '81 sell-off set the stage for the mother of all bull markets...
Thus physics finds itself in a great funk today because it cannot neatly account for all the new particles it keeps discovering. It is saddled with a particle zoo whose inventory has the bulk and elegance of a Chinese menu...