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...dorkiest slumber party ever, if you don't include that show on Oxygen. No one was allowed to go home until the election was decided. There was a special menu posted in the hall - and the 2 a.m. cold buffet included lemon squares and jumbles! Despite the fact that we received new exit polls every one and a half hours, overexcited managing editor Walter Isaacson asked that updates be e-mailed to the staff every half an hour. People were gathered in the hall, excitedly whispering about faithless electors. My coworkers were clearly getting turned...
...Most Bizarre Tip of the Hat: Tom Brokaw, at about 2 a.m., doing a dead-solid imitation of David Brinkley saying, "I thought I'd be out somewhere having a lemon squash and a glass of milk at this hour...
When a band decides to focus on the craft of songwriting, you know it's coming off a lemon, as U2 is. But Pop was the anomaly in a career that's been dedicated, and now rededicated, to making great rock music. The 11 tracks, produced by U2 veterans Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno, reveal a band exhausted with its own irony, and aging, if not always gracefully, at least honestly. Beautiful Day and When I Look at the World are Bono full-voice blasters, while the melancholic Kite and New York are about people who still haven't found...
Their names have endured as clichés of musical humor, be it in an ancient Cheech and Chong routine or the tongue-in-cheek moniker of the near-forgotten rock band Blind Melon. But there was nothing funny about Blind Lemon Jefferson and Blind Blake, who in their time exerted a huge influence on the evolution of popular music. A pair of new compilations from Shanachie, painstakingly assembled from old recordings from the 1920's and enhanced for maximum audio quality, provides a valuable insight on the oeuvre of both of these unique performers...
...gravity, a crash victim who finds his near death experience makes him feel alive, an earthbound stargazer who dreams of abduction by alien spacecraft. His voice is often sampled, distorted by synthesizers, his lyrics broken into elegiac fragments, shards of thoughts, mantras of melancholia. "I woke up sucking a lemon," Yorke sings on Everything in Its Right Place, and the phrase is repeated again and again in a plaintive sample. Throughout Kid A he returns to the theme of restlessness, rootlessness and confusion. On the ethereal jazz breakdown In Limbo, he croons, "I'm lost at sea... I've lost...