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...blazing three-chord song structures on Veni Vidi Vicious, the Hives' debut American album (released in April), are so imitative--of the Ramones, the Sonics, the Stooges, you name it--that the album would be plagiaristic if not for Pelle's elastic voice, which travels to incredible peaks to rip off Little Richard. Are they better than the classics they imitate? No. But the songs are awfully catchy--and the Hives aren't kidding themselves, either. On Main Offender, Pelle sings, "Stuck in ways of sadistic joy/ My talent only goes so far as to annoy...
...Harvard is all he knows—he is Harvard,” says a former senior tutor. “It’s as if he thinks there are barbarians at the gate just waiting to rip the place...
...continued to rip through Ivy competition in the Crimson’s final games against Yale, Brown and Dartmouth, posting double-doubles against the Elis and the Big Green. In the Crimson’s league finale in Hanover, N.H., she totaled 14 points, 13 rebounds and six steals. She was also the only player to score in the second half between a Peljto jumper five minutes into the frame and a Gates layup with 47 seconds remaining...
...have many Marshall songs, but it still sags after the halfway point before rallying to regain some of its bluster. There are two horrible songs: Drips, a duet with D12's Obie Trice, is the dumbest sex romp since the Luther Campbell era; Sing for the Moment, a licensed rip-off of Aerosmith's Dream On, substitutes a musty hit for any new emotion...
...manufacturers of blank CDs, the rip-and-burn trend has proved a windfall. Americans stocked up on 1.4 billion blank CDs last year. Memorex, stuck with decaying sales of cassettes and VHS tapes, deftly moved into the market for CD-Rs and now owns the top share, with 30%. By the end of the year, Memorex says, it will be completely out of the tape business...