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...proved Yorke and the boys to be prolific musicians, while the album's commercial success established Radiohead as one of the most creative and experimental mainstream bands of the mid-nineties, not applicable to the Blur-vs.-Oasis Battle of the Brit Bands. "High and Dry," "Just" and "Fake Plastic Trees" (immortalized in Clueless as Cher makes that "whiny college radio song" remark and shuts off the stereo) became instant radio (and MTV) hits...
...fourth song, "How to Disappear Completely," is a beautiful ballad in the tradition of OK Computer's "Lucky" and The Bends' "Fake Plastic Trees." The minimalist lyrics and instrumentation are in concert with the song's theme of invisibility. However, there is still the rare indulgence; a gorgeous and unexpected melisma on "Strobe Lights" sets the song apart from its predecessors...
...Par?. After a tooth-loosening ride along a cratered, flooded jungle road and a short but slippery hike into the 25-year-old preserve, I finally got to my goal?a surreal scene in the heart of the rain forest. As far as the eye could see, transparent plastic tents covered the forest floor, which was crisscrossed by a complicated network of trenches and pits. I lowered myself to the bottom of one of the holes and discovered that despite the intermittent downpours that sweep the region, the earth was relatively dry. The plastic tarps and the trenches were designed...
...group of seven men harassed three Quincy House students outside Let's Go Travel on Mt. Auburn St. The students who were attacked described the seven men as "intoxicated skinheads." One student, Adam R. Kampff '02, received five stitches after one assailant hit him in the head with a plastic recycling...
...could all become music pirates because it was just so damn easy to do--easier even than ordering a CD online. And once that happened, would we ever be able to go back to getting into our car, driving to the mall and buying a shrink-wrapped piece of plastic with a little silver disc inside? "I don't know how to stop it," says Atlantic Records Group co-chairman Val Azzoli, of the problems created by Napster. "It's not just music I'm worried about. It's all intellectual properties. If you can take music, you can take...