4B • THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN THIS AND THAT THURSDAY,OCT.11,2001 Granada Theater 1020 Mass. Lawrence, KS 785.842.1390 DANCE Thursday Saturday NIGHTS Retro LADIES X.S REWIND NIGHT Acuvue Acuvue Acuvue Lowest Pricing of the Year Acuvue contacts as low as $14.75 per box ask for details Bring in this ad and save $10 OFF a contact lens exam -or- $5 OFF a glasses exam Not walk with other offers or in conjunction with insurance claims. Coupon must be presented at time of service. 10% off the spectacle with this ad Not valid with other offers or in conjunction with insurance claims Coupon must be presented at time of service. O the spectacle - eye wear center Let us make a SPECTACLE out of you. Located next to Dr. Kevin Lenahan & Associates Dr. Kevin Lenahan Optometrist & Associates Hillcrest 935 Business Park·Lawrence, KS·(785) 838-3200 In the Hillcrest Shopping Center www.lenahaneyedoc.com WEATHER FORECAST TODAY 65 46 Pleasant with partly cloudy skies. TOMORROW Cloudy with a chance for showers and thunderstorms SATURDAY 64 45 KUJH-TV News Newcasts are every hour on the half hour starting at 5:30 p.m. 68 47 MATT JACOBS/DEPARTMENT OF ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES (518) 290-7430 UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK ENGLAND Rain ending early with partly cloudy skies. GONGFARMER BY RANDY REIGER Verve Pipe offers nothing new 'Underneath' has pop-drenched tunes, strong ending By Jeff Hayes Jayplay writer There was no escaping the brooding alterna-anthem "The Freshman" in 1997 as it dominated radio airwaves and the billboard charts for months. Since then, the Verve Pipe has been coasting on that monster hit single since its release, returning two years later for a self-titled follow-up album. The band has reemerged with a freshly-coated pop sheen, presumably tailored for the new popdrenched millennium. Underneath, the latest release, certainly isn't a bad album. Producer Adam Schlesinger's clean and lean production perfectly accentuates the catchy choruses and general pop sensibility demonstrated by the band's two songwriters, vocalist and guitarist Brian Van Ark and drummer Donny Brown. Most of the songs are hookladen, radio-ready and easily hummable. Yet it's eerily familiar. The main problem here is that the Verve Pipe doesn't have a distinctive sound: Its mid-tempo approach could easily be a Fastball or Semisonic album. Although the first four tracks are solid, the band's middle-of-the-road pop-rock cliché becomes wearying. The melodies, while tuneful, never really stick to the roof of your skull like truly great poprock songs should. It certainly helps when the band successfully branches out albeit only slightly — on the southern rock influenced "Happiness Is," the hard-rocking "Medicate Myself" and the Zeppelinesque squawk of "Local Boys." Power ballads such as "Colorful" and "Gotta Move On" sound overwrought and ineffectual. Fortunately, the album ends on a high note with the title track; a slightly spacey, gorgeous ballad that leaves you wishing that the rest of the album could live up to the promise shown only at its conclusion. Underneath is the Verve Pipe's most commercial and accessible album to date, but it never steps over any of the well-defined boundaries of the pop-rock genre. The band has definitely found a suitable producer in Schlesinger; all they need now is some inspiration. Contact Hayes at 864-4810 Crossword ACROSS 1 "Call Me __" 6 Men only 10 H.S. junior's exam 14 Wear away 15 Carry on 16 Uncommon 17 Marin's art 19 "Picnic" piaywright 20 Chess piece 21 Hebrew strongman 23 Words with a photo 27 Warnings 28 "The Iceman Cometh" dramatist 29 Eddying 30 Bonds or White 31 Clan pattern 32 Delivery vehicle 35 Mature 36 Memorize 37 Carpenter's groove 38 Enzyme: suff. 39 Mends by reweaving 40 Long-gone fowl 41 Dissertations 43 Organism requiring oxygen 44 Conducts 46 Vilified 47 Comparable thing 48 Flapjack chain's letters 49 Archibald of the NBA 50 Top diplomat 56 Pretty soon 57 Farmland 58 Sidestep 59 Evening in Pisa 60 Sit for an artist 61 Helped out UNI 1 Kitten's call 2 Coach DOWN 1 Kitten's call 2 Coach Parseghian 3 E-mail period 4 Cannon's end? 5 With glee 6 Faint 7 Lecture © 2001 Tribune Media Services, Inc All rights reserved. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 | | | | | 15 | | | | 16 | | | 17 | | | | 18 | | | | 19 | | |
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