Word: hops
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Finish off the evening by treating yourself to some of the best ice cream in Cambridge. Only a hop, skip and jump away from Jae's is Christina's Homemade Ice Cream, featuring such flavors as Jalapeno, Mango and Guinness. Enjoy the pastel rainbow colored decor as you sit in monstrous wooden booths reveling in you tasty frozen treat. 11 a.m. to midnight, 1255 Cambridge...
...with a skit in which the gospel singer-choir leader is put on trial for blending the secular and the sacred. Unlike most skits on music albums, this one hits home: Franklin has proved himself to be a threat to musical orthodoxy. His blend of gospel, funk and hip-hop is ingenious and unique; and in pop music it's certainly harder to advocate positive religious values than it is to be Marilyn Manson. On this album Franklin has refined his sound further; his melodies are stronger, the vocal arrangements more graceful. Hard, beat-driven songs like Revolution pound. More...
...genre elements and quotations to create the albums deliriously composite and cohesive sound. Good Humor is almost inconceivable: a broad, ecstatic blend of the pristine disco of ABBA, the elegant jazz pop of Steely Dan, the rhythmic bass throb of funk and the bleary-eyed cocktail electronica of trip-hop. The product is anything but tired; on Sylvie, for example, the rueful, cosmopolitan irony of the lyric is offset completely by a glowing arrangement. The overlay of subtle syncopations and retro instrumentation makes the song surreal and engaging, like a chance meeting with Burt Bacharach after hours at a chic...
...also leads to some interesting combinations, like the hip-hop-talking teenager I saw in Belle Fourche, South Dakota, who was wearing cowboy boots and chewing Red-Man Tobacco. The town of Belle Fourche was a hub for cattle roundups and cattle sales for the past two centuries. Apparently, now it is the hub of the rap world, the place from which the next Puff Daddy will emerge...
...photogenic and self-contained--was instantly installed as the brightest god in what would become the new polytheism of global celebrity--now perhaps the world's dominant religion. But for Charles Lindbergh, the New York-to-Paris flight, the first solo transatlantic crossing by air, was only the first hop in a more complicated and sometimes less heroic journey...