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...Like NRBQ and the Grateful Dead, whose encyclopedic catalogs provide the only fair comparison, Los Lobos have absorbed everything from rockabilly to Marvin Gaye (whose "What's Going On" ends the album), with field trips through psychedelia, doo-wop, blues, pop and just-plain-out-there studio experimentation. And that's not even counting their mastery of the traditional Mexican music they grew up with, the soundtrack of life in Chicano East L.A. With 86 songs, there's a lot to like here: the earliest forays into the studio with traditional material like "Guantanamera"; the rowdy guitar-driven rock...
...charge faded because Clinton was there so much. She even gave up time in the glittery New York outpost of Martha's Vineyard to vacation amid the blackflies of Skaneateles. She was the first up and last to bed, handshaking her way through county fairs and college campuses, just plain outworking her opponent. And as much as yuppie women may have been skeptical of Hillary's motives, upstate women of a certain age greeted her like Oprah, an avatar of spiritual renewal touching down in Poughkeepsie. They turned out for her, stayed afterward, lined up for autographs. Her first victory...
...Plain Rap (Edel America...
...Plain Rap basically sums up the new album from the Pharcyde. The L.A. group spent the '90s putting out a catalog of conceptual, just-a-little-bit-over-the-top hip-hop albums and proving that they were some of the only MCs that Hammer didn't scare away from dancing on stage. The concept for this new release, though, is no concept; the Pharcyde want to tone it down and just "rap for hip-hop's sake...
...Plain Rap does have its moments, though the uneven production makes it hard to see them coming. Top honors go to the introspective "Somethin," with a sly, funky bass line and soulful female vocals. "Frontline" could also make some heads bob, though why the track the Pharcyde says "tells you the whole vibe and mindset of the album" hides in the number nine slot is as much a mystery as why one of the strongest hip-hop acts of the '90s has come out so weak in 2000. C+ -Taylor R. Terry...