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...Harvard women's lacrosse team got itself out of a little funk Wednesday with a 17-8 drubbing of the University of New Hampshire. The Crimson (7-2 overall, 2-1 Ivy) was coming off two less-than-impressive games--a loss to Loyola and a close win over Yale--and needed to show that it can still...
...Definition: Tour Clone--1. Any golfer on Tour who can't be identified in a lineup including Fred Funk, Bill Glasson and Mike Standly. 2. The guy playing with Jack and Arnie, or the Shark and Freddy, that you don't recognize...
...best disc of the set is the 70s volume,featuring classics such as van McCoy's "TheHustle" and treats from Elo, the Average WhiteBand, Earth Wind and Fire, and Billy Preston.Preston's "Outta-Space," the second track on thisalbum, features a thick funk groove underneathPreston's organ and key work. Oh yeah, there's agreat instrumental version of Led Zeppelin's"Whole Lotta Love" with King Curtis screaming outRobert Plant's vocal line on his sax, producing aprophetic marriage of funk/soul orchestrationswith heavy metal...
...listen to the Ghetto Boyz song that samples "Sweet Home Alabama" at half-speed for one of a million examples of how this has spread.) The underappreciated follow-up, Paul's Boutique (my personal favorite Beasties record), was one of the first rap albums to feature crazily layered funk samples and undermixed vocals. Along with De La Soul's Three Feet High and Rising, I think that this is one of the most influential rap records ever. Even if the "mellow rap" legacy is being threatened right now, the pure funk of Paul's Boutique is alive and well...
...Thursday nights are characterized as noisier and artier, while on Fridays, Douglas DeMay '94 plays gut-level, hard-core, emotional stuff to a very loyal audience. On Saturday night the Record Hospital becomes "Rhythm 95," and the music changes to a combination of rap, hip hop, dance hall and funk. Sunday nights the station returns to Record Hospital and plays songs that are more closely tied to the punk movement of the late 1970s...