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FURTHERMORE WHAT, the debut from Oh-Ok, the latest band out of Athens. Ga., comes on like a decadent kiddies album, blending childlike innocence with childish perversity to set a tone that is, simultaneously harming and unsettling. The nursery-rhyme lyrics and the bright melodies on this six-song EP barely mask the obsessive, morbidity lurking beneath. In fact, the darker meanings are so tightly woven into the airy structure of the music that it becomes impossible to separate the perversity from the innocence...
Like the old nursery rhyme. "Ring Around the Rosies"--with its hidden suggestions of the bubonic plague--these songs translate the horrors of the adult world into children's language. The death, madness, and devil rituals on this EP may be common but Oh-Ok's handling of them in childish terms is quite original, something along the lines of Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit", which turned an acid trip into an Alice-in-Wonderland fairy tale...
...Harvard Corporation ever wanted to "get' the History Department, it could do it. It could block the department's appointments and refuse to OK a budget with any funding. But they would never...
...Ok, then, it is suggested, hire only students and pay them less money. After all, Brian even said that "there will always be undergraduates qualified to do this job." Brian also added that he doesn't think the Council will always, or ever, be able to get them...
PICTURE THIS: you're sitting downstairs with some friends in Matthews or Hollis early freshman week, when a Harvard police officer barges in and demands to see your ID. As you explain that you don't have it with you because it's upstairs in your room, he smirks, "Ok, then, let's go upstairs...