Word: tunes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...facing Harvard, the inexperienced cadet squad had yet to face a team of the Crimson's caliber. "We're extremely young," Army mentor Paul Assaiante remarked before the match, "and I'm sure we'll feel some growing pains this year." And growing pains they felt, to the tune of a 9-0 shutout...
Daniel Gil's December 7th article on the Harvard men's soccer team is in itself, to quote his headline, "a sad, familiar tune." After five years at Harvard and a 26-33-9 record, it is questionable why the Harvard men's varsity soccer program has to be George Ford's way to "learn how to relax with his players." It is regrettable that Mr. Gil could not find it in himself to take a more substantive stance on this issue...
There might even be an FM hit on this album. "Oh My Heart" is the rememberable kind of tune that is very easy to hum. The only thing that could stop this song from reaching the charts would be Anna McGarrigle's voice, which is the high vibrato that elementary school music teachers and maiden aunts usually have. Luckily, Kate, who has a lower, richer voice, sings lead vocals in most numbers. In fact, she easily outdoes Linda Ronstadt in "Just Another Broken Heart," a real you've-gone-and-broke-my-heard-and-I-just-can't-live-without...
...that dull. It's even refreshing to hear a love song presented with so little saccharine in the vocals. Granted, Kate sings the words "You're my earth and heaven" with as much conviction as if she were singing "You're my dentist and toothbrush." But the tune is nice...
...tune is more than nice in the song "Pronto Monto," the title song of the album. The song is in French, very clear schoolbook French, with an English translation generously supplied on the sleeve. Along with the haunting words ("Such sad dreams/Troubling my sleep with that howl/Farewells must be but au revoirs"), and a charming french cabaret flavor, "Pronto Monto" is all variety. There's a brief transition to disco at the end of the song, French disco, and mysterious strains of mandolin, violin and horn floating in and out of the music. "Pronto Monto" embodies everything good about...