Word: hops
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...restraint, makes for a guitar hero the post-Nirvana crowd can embrace. His playing is not indulgent--rarely will he take an all-out, all-eyes-on-me solo--but it is attention grabbing nonetheless. Like Hendrix, he can coax strange sounds from his guitar: metallic rasps, hip-hop-like scratches, notes that snap back like rubber. And yet, like U2's the Edge and R.E.M.'s Buck, he works in tightly focused riffs and bursts...
...Hill, the Clash and others, Morello and Rage Against the Machine marry their music to radical politics. The band's sound is terrifically assaultive: on its most recent album, Evil Empire, the songs have the crunch and grind of metal with a bit of the energetic bounce of hip-hop. The band's lyrics also pack a punch: the new single, People of the Sun, is an attack on American foreign policy toward the anti-government Zapatista rebels in Chiapas, Mexico (Morello charges that the U.S. is supporting an oppressive Mexican government when it should be siding with the rebels...
...promiscuous one. Funk riffs give "Bubbles," a vocal collaboration between Tricky and Hall, the kind of inimitable musical flavor that makes an album great. Samplings of DAS EFX on "Keep Your Mouth Shut" as well as Bird's rap "Children's Story" pay homage to a few of trip-hop's influences, though none comes as close in power to her driving, ironic (though musically disimilar) version of Public Enemy's "Black Steel" on Maxinquaye...
Late that afternoon, the train arrived in Michigan City, where a crowd of 30,000 cheered and waved flags. Awaiting the President was a limousine that would take him to a helicopter for his final hop to Chicago. In the car his advisers Bruce Lindsey and Lieberman told him of the impending Morris story. Clinton took the news coolly, according to White House staffers. Though he can blow up over small things, big setbacks concentrate his mind. On the flight into Chicago, he and his aides played hearts, a favorite Clinton game. But even then it was becoming obvious...
...Song Glory, a brave, bold blast that compares with some of the best tunes on Jesus Christ Superstar, the pioneering 1971 rock opera. However, neither Rent nor Noise/Funk is as bold musically as JCS was in its day. Noise/Funk sounds a little stuffy compared with current hip-hop releases like A Tribe Called Quest's Beats, Rhymes and Life, while Rent lacks the raw sonic invention of, say, the Smashing Pumpkins or Beck...