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...knowing lyrics quote). "Exit Flagger" rides a pushmepullyou-like hook to the chorus, where it suddenly gains a kick more powerful than your average well-trained racehorse (About those titles: main guy Robert Pollard has said that before recording sessions, the band makes up a long list of weird titles, then tires to write a song to match each one. I'll believe that...

Author: By Steve L. Burt, | Title: One Chord Wonders | 10/21/1993 | See Source »

...Pushmepullyou," if you didn't know, is a two-headed animal from the Dr. Doolittle stories; the Doctor is less a weird joke than a serious point of reference for GBV's achievements. Like the miraculous veterinarian, GBV main guy Robert Pollard has a respect for the diverse beasts of the rock and roll jungle that lets him get them to do his bidding. Like Dr. Doolittle, Pollard can convince animals that would normally be at each other's throats--a two-chord, thumping stomp, say, and its natural enemy, a spiraling, self-involved vocal line--to team...

Author: By Steve L. Burt, | Title: One Chord Wonders | 10/21/1993 | See Source »

...Students should be up at 7 a.m. College is where you come to learn something. No partying. No hanging weird things out the window," says Young as he gestures towards the banners hanging from Holworthy Hall...

Author: By David B. Lat, | Title: HAMMERING THEIR WAY INTO HARVARD HISTORY | 10/16/1993 | See Source »

Spartan is held responsible for the carnage andboth he and Phoenix are sentenced to the cryogenicpenitentiary where they will undergo some kind ofsubliminal rehabilitation through weird computerchips attached to their heads...

Author: By John Donahue, | Title: I've Seen the Future, and It Sucks | 10/14/1993 | See Source »

...sophomore in Dunster House, Malikah entered the magazine's notorious who's-the-hippest-and-coolest contest--and this summer, won. In January her picture will appear on the cover of Sassy magazines everywhere, at which point she may start getting weird looks from the vendors at Out of Town News every time she walks by the newsstand...

Author: By Mike E. Farbiarz, | Title: She's Sassy, Not Seventeen | 10/14/1993 | See Source »

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