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...label, says there's a major musical shift under way. "I associate it with generations of high school students coming along who want ownership of their own culture, who want something different from the people who came before them," says Goldberg, who in the past managed Bonnie Raitt and Nirvana's Kurt Cobain. "So this group is going for a female-leaning, optimistic music, in contrast to the grunge, gangsta-rap chapter that is waning...
...power pop band Foo Fighters has a lot to live up to. The band's singer and chief songwriter, David Grohl, was the drummer for one of the most revered rock bands of the '90s, Nirvana. And although most of the songs on Foo Fighters' eponymous 1995 debut were about as distinctive as taxi cabs, the album did feature a few standout numbers, including the air guitar-worthy This Is a Call. Overall, it was promising...
...songs ever since pop songs began, and Foo Fighters fails to contribute any new insights. On one song, Up in Arms, Grohl actually sings, "I cannot forget you, girl." It's hard to believe he can offer up a toothless lyric like that after the passionate wordplay of Nirvana lyrics like, "Stay away/ God is gay." Sure, Kurt Cobain wrote Nirvana's lyrics, but Grohl should have paid attention...
Harvard, however, used the right combination of skill and magic to exorcise the demons and achieve soccer nirvana. The eight returning seniors provided mass quantities of both experience and goals, and a talented group of freshmen were eager to contribute. Meanwhile, senior Peter Albers (1.06 GAA) and sophomore Jordan Dupuis (0.78 GAA) stifled opponents in front...
MUSIC . . . THE COLOUR AND THE SHAPE: Formed out of the wreckage of post-Kurt Cobain Nirvana, Foo Fighter's eponymous 1995 debut was muddled but promising, notes TIME's Christopher John Farley: "Unfortunately, on their sophomore CD, Foo Fighters never breaks out of the label 'promising,' which starts to sound more like a burden than a compliment the second time around." The songs on the new album dwell mainly on how relationships fall apart, a subject that?s been dealt with in pop songs ever since pop songs began, and Foo Fighters fails to contribute any new insights...