Word: rockin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hype swirling around Rockin' Eve 2000 -- concerts, dream vacations from Barbados to Giza--has put much of America in a tizzy to find something big to commemorate the split second that heralds the new year...
...lament over the decline of the railways, Arlo Guthrie in 1972 sang of the train the City of New Orleans passing "trains that have no name" and "the graveyards of the rusted automobile" while onboard the "magic carpet made of steel" sat "mothers with their babes asleep...rockin' to the gentle beat and the rhythm of the rails is all they feel." The City of New Orleans that left Chicago three minutes behind schedule last Monday night promised prouder vistas as it coursed along the Mississippi: historic Cairo, the blues from Beale Street in Memphis and, as finale...
...their children. They didn't. At what point, after how many new fortunes, can we proclaim the old paradigm of stock risk and bond reward as dead as the utilities-as-ultimate-wealth-generator theory? Judging by the feisty performance of the creaky old Dow, not to mention the rockin' nasdaq, shouldn't we call the financial-risk coroner come the millennium...
Most importantly, things are back to normal. The labor negotiations of the past several months have left a void in the hearts of millions of basketball fans. Now, the high-flyin,' rim-rockin' antics of such hotheads as Latrell Sprewell and Allen Iverson have returned to entertain for the next several months...
...song commences the record the same way it kicked off the Chemical Brothers' Dig Your Own Hole tour shows: by easing the listener into the complex drum and bass rhythms which are the defining characteristic of Tom Rowlands' and Ed Simons' music. Shortly, a dazzling fusion of "Block Rockin' Beats" and "Not Another Drugstore" dominate the play-back as the well-known beats from the U.K. chart-topper mix with the dope rap lyrics from the song originally found on the "Electrobank" E.P. One of the greatest moments of the album occurs about eight minutes into the first track...