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...where popular music is becoming increasingly polarized between the catchy, navely sexual tunes of Britney and Christina and the unabashed rage of Eminem and Limp Bizkit, it is nice to know there are still a few rock bands out there to fill the middle ground. The Foo Fighters, under the direction of Dave Grohl, have managed to update their sound in tune with the times on each of their three releases. Their most recent album, There is Nothing Left to Lose, was a fusion of their trademark four-chord power punk with plaintive melodies and actual singing. "This...
...usual, Jones is lamenting lost love. With irony hurtling down like hailstones, the Possum is at his most world-weary, an affect that works perfectly with this tune. Take, for example, the second verse and the refrain...
Then again, it was Dartmouth. Next week against Columbia, another Ivy cellar dweller, the O-line will have its last chance to fine-tune the power running attack before tough games with Penn and Yale...
...Dogs Out (the title of the album as well as the single) has sprinted up the charts and into the Top 10 faster than Marion Jones. A fixture on MTV and Nickelodeon, the tune has excited kids, annoyed parents and scored in the major leagues; it was chanted by thousands of Mets fans when their team clinched the National League championship last week. The song and the group have stoked thoughts of an island-music resurgence to match the influence of Harry Belafonte in the '50s and Bob Marley...
This, of course, came back to haunt each one of us in our turn. Day five of recording was the day of bass. I used two different electric basses and an upright for takes. Each tune was then reviewed and scanned with the proverbial comb so that we could "punch in" any problem notes. Punching in works like a patch-I play along to the existing bass track, while Matthew records a bit of the new part onto the problem spot. Anything from rhythm and intonation to volume, tone and quality of note are susceptible. Meanwhile, Rob Schneider's classic...