Word: numbering
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Nice to see the Beatles' 1 album at number one in the album sales charts. The thing about compiling an album comprised solely of chart-toppers is that it ignores perfectly good songs that missed the number one spot... for instance, "Penny Lane" may have been an American number one, but it was ignominiously beaten in Britain by, of all people, kitsch crooner Engelbert Humperdinck ("Release...
...album based on Beatles non-number ones wouldn't be half-bad either. Just looking at those that made Billboard's top 10 but missed the top spot, you could have: "Twist and Shout" (no. 2), "Do You Want to Know a Secret?" (no. 2), "P.S. I Love You" (no. 10), "She's a Woman" (no. 4, although really it was the B-side to "I Feel Fine"), "Nowhere Man" (no. 3) and last but certainly not least "Strawberry Fields Forever" (no. 8, although really it was the double-A side to "Penny Lane"). And that's not even counting...
...descend into more formulaic New Age babble. Unfortunately, Enya's newest release, A Day Without Rain follows this trend. It follows almost song-by-song the same trajectory of Memory of Trees. Both have purely instrumental opening title tracks. The second song is a catchy made-for-pop-radio number, (in this case, "Wild Child"). The third is an imposing chant reminiscent of Gregorian monks, and a few plaintive songs and instrumentals later, the album ends with the catchy "Lazy Days," which corresponds almost exactly to "On My Way Home" on Memory of Trees...
...number of students pressed Rudenstine on space issues. Amma Y. Ghartey-Tagoe '01, the first marshal of the senior class, asked what students needed to do to get more space. Sterling P.A. Darling '01 said he thought that in recent years, the expansion of Harvard's research side has cost the College some space...
Normally my family goes to Las Vegas for Thanksgiving (this would have been trip number 17!), but the pop culture maelstrom of South Florida was too hard to resist. In between lying on the beach or carousing around Coconut Grove, my older brother and I would go looking for election protests... Speaking of election protests, I think those "Sore / Loserman" posters are wonderfully clever... With all the recount frenzy, it looks like everybody wants a do-over. The Backstreet Boys are calling for a recount of CD sales after their first week tallies for Black and Blue just narrowly missed...