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It joins a sacred fraternity of trickster has-beens such as Smashing Pumpkins, Bush, Creed, Collective Soul, Disturbed, Godsmack and, to an extent, Linkin Park. Truly these are the Reggie McNeals of mu sic, apparently resting on their laurels after one spectacular performance. This release is somewhat frustrating in that the band does some things really well. Jerry Horton may have been born with a Schecter custom in his hand, and he plays it competently enough with a no-frills ap proach. Some of the guitar riffs are genu inely creative, and the instrumentation is solid all the way through. He hasn’t lost the ability to write a catchy riff, but his sound has lost some of the raw edge it saw on “Infest.” The main detractor on this album is pre dictable: the vocals. Shaddix takes cliche subject matter and refuses to bring it to life with any sort of actual human emotion (un less whining is an emotion, in which case Shaddix shows it in spades). Unfortunately for him, though, whining is to rock what crying is to baseball. For a casual fan, this album will prove absolutely impenetrable until the sixth or seventh time through. The songs run to gether; none of them is outstanding. High lights on the album include “When the Last AGGIELi THE BATTAI I rack is Over,” “Every Song, Until Vocals Come In” and “When I Tumedi for Store Credit at Hastings and Bouglt Decent Album.” This album does nothing to distingn itself from its predecessors or any other resentation of the rap-rock genre. If you going to eschew originality, you need make up for it with a flawless executi) that this album just doesn’t deliver. ★ ‘uT'w'ft! 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This time, however, Cosby’s material tiptoed the line of PG-13. While Cosby retained his Cliff Huxtable persona — dictating each anecdote with a combination of fatherly wisdom and diy amuse ment — he crossed the boundar ies of traditional family fare when he ventured into the topics of sex, CORNER pregnancy and childbirth. Lucky for Cosby, this year’s First Yell was not a repeat of 2002’s, when Texas A&M stu dent comedian Kamran Hamid upstaged a decidedly awkward and boring Martin Short. In his defense, Hamid was still hilari ous this time as he infused his 10-minute show with contempo rary culture (coughing and then apologizing for his “SARS acting up,” demonstrating a Plano, Tex as greeting by miming a heroine injection, and recounting the time he met the valedictorian of Texas Tech and thought, “I didn’t know community colleges ranked their students”). And, he was willing to admit the imminent backseat he would take to Cosby; “Being funnier than Cosby is like com ing to Texas A&M and running for yell leader against Jesus ... and he’s in the Corps.” Other opening acts — includ ing the Singing Cadets, Apo theosis, Aggie Wranglers, Delta Sigma Theta and Mountain Aire brought a diverse range of talents to the stage. The Cadets lightened their usual play-it-by- the-book military selections with choreographed oldies, including “My Girl” and “Sweet Darlin’.” Meanwhile, Apotheosis, an all male a cappella group, provided a more soulful sound with Seal’s “Kiss from a Rose” — which sounded better than the original — and BBMak’s “Sympathy.” The Aggie Wranglers and Delta Sigma Theta brought rhythm to the stage with two dif ferent styles of choreography. The Wranglers wowed the audi ence with dips, turns, lifts and spins (think two-stepping and multiply it by 100), while Delta Sigma Theta brought attitude and style to the show with a step dance routine. Unfortunately, the sorority's performance marred by an attempt to fuse dance with a non-sequitursk “Kids Say the Darndest Thii (a program hosted by Cosby the 1990s). The last act. Mountain Ai brought a whimsical style offi music to the stage with a mered dulcimer, autoharp guitar music. It wasn’t the of thing you'd see on MTV, it was perfectly appropriate ft traditional Aggie event. In the end. Cosby aficionai weren’t disappointed withtbl favorite ‘80s dad. He might have been as enchanting family-friendly as he was 2000, but he likely didn’t I any fans in the process, stead, he kept First Yell lij entertaining and full of kind of humor family man Cl Huxtable might not have proved of, but that kept Fri night’s audience amused the lights came up. Kendra Kingslt PEOPLE IN THE NEWS Broadway music lyricist dies NEW YORK (AP) - Fred Ebb, who wrote the lyrics for such hit Broadway musicals as “Ghicago" and “Cabaret” as well as the big- city anthem “New York, New York,” died Saturday of a heart attack. Ebb died at his home, said David McKeown, an assistant to composer John Kander, Ebb's longtime col laborator. With Kander, Ebb wrote the scores for 11 Broadway musicals, many of them for such leading la dies as Gwen Verdon, Chita Rivera, Liza Minnelli and Lauren Bacall. Keys cancels concert JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) —Sing er Alicia Keys and British violin act Bond have canceled concerts in the Indonesian capital after week’s deadly suicide attack the Australian Embassy. 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