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Fight with Tools $9.58 When listening to the Flobots debut album, Fight with Tools, there's a feeling that all the destruction and injustice this politically motivated alt rap crew speak of has been seen through CNN and YouTube. There's a certain grit missing, a certain soul that comes from living the nightmare and surviving, and whether they've been through it or not, the Flobots just don't display it. Fight with Tools also feels like a college class project partly because it's so clean but also because it's incredibly busy with ambition and new ideas overflowing as everything and the kitchen sink get thrown into the record. This youthful ambition and willingness to explore is also what makes the record special. The Denver crew enter by spitting out a Gil Scott-Heron by way of Def Poetry Jam bit of prose on the opening "There's a War Going on for Your Mind," offering surreal lines like "It's raining pornography/Lovers take shelter" over melancholy chamber music. That's the Flobots' real hook; they rap with a live band, and not the guitar, bass, drums beat combo you've seen before. It's all of the above and some strings, horns, and other things left over from the orchestra and marching band. This isn't as Kids from Fame as it sounds, since the Flobots do have a believablly stern pose, and if they aren't experienced, they are brilliantly educated and aware. Good points are made with skill and fine wordplay, the guitars and drums crunch along driving home the message with head-bobbing grooves, and then album opens up with the marvelous "Handlebars," a carefully crafted, slowly building tale of the ego run wild via some beautiful muted trumpet. It's a very Fort Minor moment, and sweet relief from all the pain and in-your-face politics, suggesting the Flobots could benefit from a little more restraint. Here, they've got so much to stay it's hardly worth considering. If the talented young bucks want to shout down the world as if they own the place, why curb their inspiring appetite for justice by asking for discipline and composure? ~ David Jeffries, Rovi Performers: Mackenzie Roberts - Viola, Vocals; Brer Rabbit - Vocals; Jesse Walker - Bass; Joe Ferrone - Trumpet; Jonny 5 - Vocals; Kenny Ortiz - Drums |
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The Best of College Football Fight Songs $6.38 College football fight songs are fascinating when viewed in the abstract. They're marches, which are restricted in their form and vocabulary to begin with, and beyond that they're marches written to a specific purpose -- they have to cut through the sonic clutter of tens of thousands of people and get their attention. Given that, this impressively large collection of 33 college football fight songs, all expertly played by the Florida State University Marching Band, reveals quite a variety of approaches to the task. There are features in common, of course. Most of the pieces are short; the subtle relationships between the strains of a Sousa march, except in the unusually elaborate and harmonically ambitious Fight On March from Penn State University, mostly go by the wayside, although the University of Michigan's The Victors is given in its relatively unfamiliar complete form, with the familiar "hail to the victors valiant" tune in its proper place in the trio section. But the disc is full of surprises. The compositions seem to date from various times -- it would have been nice to know when, but the booklet contains no information at all other than a track list. Some composers try to seize the listener with a big Hollywood-style (or just late Romantic) flourish as an introduction. Some use familiar materials, either straight-up (the University of Georgia, perhaps surprisingly, uses Glory, Glory, aka John Brown's Body or The Battle Hymn of the Republic, as its fight song) or in a piecemeal allusion (Arizona State's Maroon and Gold, with its strong suggestion of Alabama Jubilee and entertaining bones-like castanets). And some composers just try to blast through the distraction with hell-for-leather music -- the Florida State musicians deserve major kudos for mastering a lot of music including the obviously difficult Hold That Tiger from Clemson University (track 8). The sound engineers impressively surmount the challenges involved in recording massed brasses. The only complaint here is the omission of any music from one of the South's historically black colleges and universities, where football band music has a distinct flavor and an acrobatic presentation that on fall Saturday afternoons draws audiences from far beyond the African-American community. (Consider Tennessee State's fight song: "I'm so glad I go to TSU!/I'm so glad I go to TSU!/I'm so glad I go to TSU!/Singing Glory Hallelujah, I'm so glad!") Note that while the texts of the songs are not sung, the chanted school names included in some of the pieces, including the home field Florida State Fight Song, are included. Miami U., from the University of Miami (the one in Florida, apparently, although this isn't clear), has an especially entertaining treatment of this idea, with the name spelled out at different speeds that lead up to a rousing "Fight! Fight! Fight!" Great fun for any football fan, or, indeed, for any lover of band music. ~ James Manheim, Rovi |
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Fight with Tools [Clean] $9.58 When listening to the Flobots debut album, Fight with Tools, there's a feeling that all the destruction and injustice this politically motivated alt rap crew speak of has been seen through CNN and YouTube. There's a certain grit missing, a certain soul that comes from living the nightmare and surviving, and whether they've been through it or not, the Flobots just don't display it. Fight with Tools also feels like a college class project partly because it's so clean but also because it's incredibly busy with ambition and new ideas overflowing as everything and the kitchen sink get thrown into the record. This youthful ambition and willingness to explore is also what makes the record special. The Denver crew enter by spitting out a Gil Scott-Heron by way of Def Poetry Jam bit of prose on the opening "There's a War Going on for Your Mind," offering surreal lines like "It's raining pornography/Lovers take shelter" over melancholy chamber music. That's the Flobots' real hook; they rap with a live band, and not the guitar, bass, drums beat combo you've seen before. It's all of the above and some strings, horns, and other things left over from the orchestra and marching band. This isn't as Kids from Fame as it sounds, since the Flobots do have a believably stern pose, and if they aren't experienced, they are brilliantly educated and aware. Good points are made with skill and fine wordplay, the guitars and drums crunch along driving home the message with head-bobbing grooves, and then album opens up with the marvelous "Handlebars," a carefully crafted, slowly building tale of the ego run wild via some beautiful muted trumpet. It's a very Fort Minor moment, and sweet relief from all the pain and in-your-face politics, suggesting the Flobots could benefit from a little more restraint. Here, they've got so much to stay it's hardly worth considering. If the talented young bucks want to shout down the world as if they own the place, why curb their inspiring appetite for justice by asking for discipline and composure? [Fight with Tools was also made available in a clean version, with all explicit material removed.] ~ David Jeffries, Rovi Performers: Mackenzie Roberts - Viola, Vocals; Andy Guerrero - Vocals, Guitar; Jesse Walker - Bass; Joe Ferrone - Trumpet; Johnny 5 - Vocals |
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Increasing Effectiveness Of The Community College Financial Model $112.5 Increasing Effectiveness of the Community College Financial Model: A Global Perspective for the Global Economy depicts the challenges and responses of community college financing in an era where ... |
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Increasing Access to College $21.8 This book is in New - Excellent condition |
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Increasing Effectiveness of the Community College Financial Model $67.2 "Increasing Effectiveness of the Community College Financial Model: A Global Perspective for the Global Economy depicts the challenges and responses of community college financing in an era where funding has decline and so too has the opportunity to provi |
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Volcom Kids Hawaii College Tee (Black) $17 Cool kids clothing and accessories from Up & Riding. |
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Why Buildings Stand Up $17.1 Why Buildings Stand Up |
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Increasing A Community College Governing Board''s Engagement In Accountability For Student Success $90.95 Increasing A Community College Governing Board''s Engagement In Accountability For Student Success |
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Fight $16.99 Crushing your enemies, driving them before you, and hearing the lamentations of their women? It doesn't get any better than this." –Eugene Robinson, ripping off John Milius That's the sentiment that surges just below the surface of Eugene Robinson's Fight – an engrossing, intimate look into the all–absorbing world of fighting. Robinson – a former body–builder, one–time bouncer, and lifelong fight connoisseur – takes readers on a no–holds–barred plunge into what fighting is all about, and what fighters live for. If George Plimpton had muscles and had been choked out one too many times––this is the book he could have written. When Robinson and his fellow fighters mix it up, they live completely for the moment: absorbed in the feel of muscles slippery with sweat; the metallic tang of blood mingling with saliva in the mouth; the sweet, firm thud of taped knuckles impacting flesh. They fight because it feels good. They fight because they want to win. And even if they get their asses kicked, they fight because they love fighting. Fight is part encyclopedia, part panegyric to fighting in all its forms and glory. Robinson's narrative – told in his trademark tough–guy, stream–of–consciousness noir voice – punctuates this explanatory compendium of the fighting world. From wrestling, jiu–jitsu, boxing and muay thai to bar fighting, hand–to–hand combat, prison fighting and hockey fights, from the greatest movie fight scenes to how to throw the perfect left hook, Fight is a scene–by–scene tour of the bloody but beautiful underworld that is the art of fighting. With his aficionado's enthusiasm and fast–paced, addictive voice, Robinson's Fight combines compelling text with beautiful photographs to create an illustrated book as edgy and interesting as it is gorgeous. |
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The Consecrated Eminence; The Story Of The Campus And Buildings Of Amherst College $25.04 The Consecrated Eminence; The Story Of The Campus And Buildings Of Amherst College |
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Randolph-Macon College $16.41 Randolph-Macon College was founded as a Methodist-related college in 1830 near Boydton in Mecklenburg County, Virginia. After the Civil War, the college moved along the Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac Railroad tracks to the wooden buildings of a ban |
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Roxy Women Ski Lift Shirt (RDB) $39.5 Epaulettes. You want them, this striped top has them. At the bracelet length sleeves that is. But that's not the only thing that sets this shirt apart. Check out the side slits and the hi-lo hem. Love it. 25-inch length. 100% cotton slub jersey. Imported. Machine wash. |
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Stand Up And Fight [Digipak] $9.49 Stand Up And Fight [Digipak] |
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Stand Up And Fight $8.49 Stand Up And Fight |
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Stand Up And Fight (2CD) $12.99 Stand Up And Fight (2CD) |
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