Word: platinum
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...their consistently formidable live performances and their support of such groups as Planned Parenthood, Greenpeace and Amnesty International, the band gained a faithful grassroots following. With the smash hit “Send Me On My Way,” their 1994 album, When I Woke, was certified multi-platinum...
...start with a divisive statement: all these "open-minded" artists are getting old. I mean the horde of platinum-selling genre-hybrid acts: rap-rockers (Limp Bizkit), R-and-B-rock-teen-poppers (Pink), pop-dance-post-punkers (No Doubt) and Latin-rock-pop divas (Shakira), who practice the eclecticism that has been hot since way back when it was settled that the electronica revolution was a non-starter. Their songs are generally okay, and occasionally breach the lower depths of pretty good, but they're last decade's news; Rage Against the Machine brought rap-metal mainstream...
...genre--and Jive's top R.-and-B. singer, R. Kelly--whose schizoid canon runs between gospel-infused hits like I Believe I Can Fly and bedroom numbers on the order of Like a Freak--were collaborating on an album. Synergy isn't a science, but given the platinum pedigrees of both artists, the album, The Best of Both Worlds, could plausibly have become the first hip-hop record to sell 1 million copies in its first week of release...
...that they take traditional Newfoundland songs, such as “Mary Mac” and “The Night That Patty Murphy Died”, and turn them into rock tracks that have a far more universal appeal. Maybe the only band ever to go platinum that features both bouzouki and bodhran players, their music is unique to say the least...
...Computers and other appliances contain valuable materials: gold, platinum and other electrical conductors are used in microchips and motherboards; lead is in solder and computer monitors; copper can be mined from wires and internal circuitry. But in China, which according to ban receives nearly 90% of America's castoffs, recycling is a crude process carried out in places like Guiyu by tens of thousands of peasants equipped with the most rudimentary of tools. Components must be laboriously broken apart by hand. Some are dipped in acid baths to leach out precious metals, while the plastic covering on wiring is sometimes...