Word: hops
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...down the book--your Summer School grades don't really matter--hop on the train and get out. You'll be glad...
...another, but still kin. Somewhere in the noisy postmodern collages of Beck one can find echoes of Irving Berlin. Though Chuck Berry may roll over when he hears it, devil-rocker Marilyn Manson counts among his musical offspring. Whether he likes it or not, Puff Daddy's pop hip-hop is a direct descendant of Hammer's Las Vegas-style rap. The Spice Girls may not be the apex of musical evolution, but they do have their links to Cole Porter. It is in this endless cross-fertilization of country and blues, jazz and heavy metal, rap and alternative rock...
Leslie, who has written between 60 and 100songs, describes his music as a mix of hip-hop andrhythm and blues, but admits to having severalinfluences on his music--namely the music he sangin church when he was growing up and performerslike Stevie Wonder...
...Irish rock group U2. Presenting Sinatra with a special "Legend" Award at the Grammys in 1994, Bono pinpointed Frank's appeal for a new generation: "Rock-'n'-roll people love Frank Sinatra because Frank Sinatra has got what we want--swagger and attitude." And 19-year-old hip-hop soul singer Usher admires Sinatra's I-did-it-my-way attitude so much that he named his new album after Sinatra's signature song. Usher's My Way has sold more than 3 million copies...
...With their mostly undistinguished arrangements backing the saxophonist as if he were a B-list crooner, the sessions have long been dismissed by jazzbos as being beneath his talents. But he himself was proud of them, and listeners today, accustomed to the burr-in-your-ear juxtapositions of hip-hop and electronica, may find something bracing in the sheer sound of these records, a pleasing shiver in hearing Parker's acerbic horn cutting against the schmaltzy grain of massed violins. Then again, this may be a minority opinion...