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	CD Baby: THE BILLY DECHAND BAND: Hocus Pocus
		The Billy Dechand Band's Hocus Pocus is a quirky, psychedlic pop album with songs that span from dreamy, chipper, to Radiohead-esque longing, sometimes all in one song.
		Hocus Pocus grows on you the way classics do - it starts out great, and just gets better.
		Billy Dechand's songwriting is outstanding as usual, with this quartet taking new musical ideas and presenting them in perfect form.
	cdbaby.com /cd/dechand2 (166 words)

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		She sings one song, which, along with everything else in the movie, happens so quickly and out of sequence that you begin to wonder if you fell asleep for a moment.
		The only thing that saves this movie from being a flat D (or worse) is one or two funny moments.
		The virgin comes, in the form of a teenage boy, and along with help from the cat and the boy's girlfriend, the rest of the movie is focused on getting the hags back in the ground.
	movies.go.com /parentpreviews/review?rid=196 (166 words)

	The Mavens' Word of the Day
		Hokey pokey is a 19th-century variant of hocus pocus.
		Hocus pocus is also a possible etymology for the name of the Hokey Pokey ice cream, competing with the more dubious derivation from an Italian street vendor's call: "Ecco un po'" (here is a little) or "O che poco" (oh, how little).
		Most British sources call the song the hokey cokey, or the cokey cokey, and claim it is of Cockney origin.
	www.randomhouse.com /wotd/index.pperl?date=19991223 (406 words)

	Focus Album reviews
		Focus' music as a whole had little to do with what was heard on the song Hocus Pocus, deeper cuts on the record revealed a band that was able to capture a writing style that encompasses a wide variety of separate influences.
		Focus, a band until this time relatively unknown, coming from the Netherlands, released this album, and to this day have one of the most popular progrock song of all time in Hocus Pocus.
		Focus' classic live-album recorded at the Rainbow Theatre in London was released at the height of their popularity, and explains all why Focus were such a successful and respected act.
	users.castel.nl /~wemmg01/focus-rev.htm (15885 words)

	Focus Album reviews
		Focus' music as a whole had little to do with what was heard on the song Hocus Pocus, deeper cuts on the record revealed a band that was able to capture a writing style that encompasses a wide variety of separate influences.
		Focus, a band until this time relatively unknown, coming from the Netherlands, released this album, and to this day have one of the most popular progrock song of all time in Hocus Pocus.
		Focus' classic live-album recorded at the Rainbow Theatre in London was released at the height of their popularity, and explains all why Focus were such a successful and respected act.
	users.castel.nl /~wemmg01/focus-rev.htm (15885 words)

	Ink 19 :: Enon
		Regardless of my disappointing venue, if Enon is coming to your town (with their US tour just underway, promoting their new album Hocus Pocus, I'm betting they are), it's worth more than the effort to go out and see.
		Tonight I saw Enon play an amazing gig, in support of their new album Hocus Pocus.
		I'm not one to extol undeserved virtues, especially when it comes to music, but Enon's live show was absolutely wonderful, from track selection to stage presence, leaving me glowing more and more, with each subsequent song.
	www.ink19.com /issues/october2003/eventReviews/enon.html (1967 words)

	new here -- kinda bored -- a few random questions - Page 4 - Jazz Bulletin Board
		The Oxford English Dictionary says that "hokey cokey" comes from "hocus pocus", the traditional magicians' incantation that derives from a Latin phrase used in satanic masses, themselves parodies of the Latin Mass.
		Hokey Pokey is either some weird prison, or kinky sex - it is a children's song after all.
		The hokey cokey and other ditties - The Tartan Army Song Book
	forums.allaboutjazz.com /showthread.php?p=63179 (797 words)

	Enon: "Starcastic": Pitchfork Review
		The first single from Hocus Pocus, "Starcastic" comprises Enon's most realized effort to fuse the quirky rubber-band discord of ex-Brainiac guitarist John Schmersal and the sugary futuradance of Blonde Redhead's Toko Yasuda.
		The song's two distinct parts have bled into each other by the end, and finally, we catch a glimpse of the brash excitement Enon could deliver in upcoming releases.
		Despite the odds, "Starcastic" succeeds in its combination, finding a natural balance in an impassioned vocal duel: Schmersal, first fronting a tight but saccharine grit tickled by a twinkling synth bells, is answered in part two by an unusually fierce Yasuda, screaming atop Schmersal's hissing guitar prigs.
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /wearetheworld/singles/e/enon-starcastic.shtml (108 words)

	The History of Rock Music. Brainiac: biography, discography, reviews, links
		Enon's third album Hocus Pocus (Touch & Go, 2003) tips its hat to trip-hop (Shave, sung by Yasuda), epic soul (the Hendrix-ian Storm the Gates), hard-rock (Utz), power-pop (The Power of Yawning), pop balladry (Candy), and even Japanese folk music (Mikazuki), while maintaining the intellectual stance of the new wave.
		Stance aside, the more original songs are merry-go-rounds of arrangements that enhance the singer's narrative skills: Daughter in the House of Fools (sung by Yasuda), that relies on lo-fi sonic events, or Starcastic, a skewed song in the tradition of Pixies and Breeders with a cute interplay of the two singers.
		Ex-Brainiac's guitarist John Schmersal, hidden behind the moniker Enon and assisted by Skeleton Key's Rick Lee and Steve Calhoon, continued the band's epic with Believo (See Thru Broadcasting, 2000), a set of catchy tunes flooded with cacophonies (Biofeedback, Elected, For The Sum Of It) and a few rap-ballads a` la Beck (Rubber Car).
	www.scaruffi.com /vol5/brainiac.html (1690 words)

	Enon - Hocus Pocus - Stylus Magazine
		Most of the other songs trudge along with occasional electronic flourishes to try to make the sound anemically quirky—you know, they could just give us some fat Halen keyboard, but that’d be too much, I suppose, for an aggressively "offbeat" group.
		It’s so easy to get caught up in a mess of guitar, as in "Yawning," and pretend that the next song, by chopping momentum in half, is actually the right move.
		Conversely, Enon make me want to shoot myself in my head whenever I listen to "Disposable Parts," off of their previous album High Society.
	www.stylusmagazine.com /review.php?ID=1781 (414 words)

	Fletcher Henderson en Solo MP3
		- Hocus Pocus - Tidal Wave - Christopher Columbus - Blue Lou - Stealin Apples - Jangled Nerves - Grand Terrace Rhythm - Riffin - Shoe Shine Boy - Sing, Sing, Sing - Jimtown Blues - Rhythm of the Tambourine - Back in Your Own Backyard - Chris and His Gang -
		- Ol Man River - Minnie the Moochers Wedding Day - Ive Got to Sing a Torch Song- Happy Feet -
		- KING PORTER STOMP - CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS - STEALIN APPLES - BLUE LOU - RHYTHM OF THE TAMBOURINE - BACK IN YOUR OWN BACKYARD - CHRIS AND HIS GANG - SING YOU SINNERS - MOTEN STOMP -
	fletcherhenderson.solomp3.com /32470_1924-1938.html (414 words)

	Articles - Roxette
		Another failure for Roxette was when the song "Almost Unreal" was dropped from the Hocus Pocus movie with Bette Midler and was instead used for the Super Mario Bros movie.
		(1995), which featured the single versions of tracks, as well as rare songs such as "Almost Unreal", and a Spanish cover-album, Baladas En EspaÃ±ol (1996).
		To cater to their South American fans, Roxette covered a number of their most popular ballads in Spanish in 1996, but the album Baladas en EspaÃ±ol has been criticized because the translator apparently did not take the project seriously, leading to some nonsense lyrics.
	www.free-biz.org /articles/Roxette (414 words)

	Live And Let Die
		None of these was worse than Macca's Live And Let Die, and the standard of the song was matched by the dismal film which had Bond faffing around New Orleans trying to deal with the hocus pocus of a Voodoo priest.
		Apart from the fact that Roger Moore was the naffest 007 of all time (did you know that towards the end of his Bond career, old Rog needed a stuntman to do his running scenes for him!), the films usually had really awful theme tunes sung by Shirley Bassey or Paul McCartney.
		The game is too similar to most of the driving games that are doing the rounds at the moment, and the flaws in the programming destroy any enjoyment that may have been in there.
	www.ysrnry.co.uk /articles/liveandletdie.htm (771 words)

	Stack on the back
		In the light of his success as a young man in developing a strategy that destroyed his own political party, and in the light of all his recent hocus pocus, may I just respond on behalf of the left to all this helpful advice.
		David, if you can do for Blair's Labour Party what you did to the Communist Party then I will personally request a song for you on the radio.
		Aaronovitch was a particularly robust, pompous and loud personification of this.
	pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk /sr276/stack.htm (1016 words)

	Doing hokey cokey 'mimics Latin Mass'
		The Oxford English Dictionary says that "hokey cokey" comes from "hocus pocus", the traditional magicians' incantation that derives from a Latin phrase used in satanic masses, themselves parodies of the Latin Mass.
		The hokey cokey and other ditties - The Tartan Army Song Book
		But its origins are much older and it seems to have gained popularity originally on this side of the Atlantic, before being taken to the US by refugees.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1999/03/14/nhoke14.html (245 words)

	www.stonerrockchick.com
		Formed in the end of blooming 60's in North London as Hocus Pocus including: Mick Bolton on guitars, Pete Way on bass and an unknown drummer.
		"Unidentified Flying Object" is the first song and you will hear their raw sound!
		They signed with London based "Beacon" label in 1970 and the firt album was in the air!
	www.stonerrockchick.com /cdreviews/reviewDisplay.php?reviewID=54&type=retro (245 words)

	AOR Website - Reviews September 2003
		Hot cover "Hocus Pocus / Incantation Of Devils" by Focus closes a very brave and well realized cd, with a good mix of elements taken from Dream Theater, Yes (circa "Relayer"), Anglagard, Loudness, Iron Maiden, Jethro Tull and King Crimson, just to mention famous names.
		The paced and viril "World Gone Crazy" (somehow close to early Demon) is a good way to open the cd, with a middle break where piano and keys are initially a base for a bass solo and later with a short neoclassic shot restart the song.
		The days when Van Halen were kings have now passed into the realms of myth to be spoken of in hushed tones when hoary old rockers gather over flagons of foaming Bourbon.
	digilander.libero.it /aorwebsite/sep03.htm (4907 words)

	Won't Get Fooled Again
		Wizard can't perform no godlike hocus-pocus/ So don't sit back, kick back and watch the world get bushwhacked/ News at 10:00, your neighborhood is under attack/ Put away the crack before the crack puts you away/ You need to be there when your baby's old enough to relate."
		t hit us one day while tooling down a crowded interstate, listening to The Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again" on a classic-rock radio station: "I've been singing along to this song for 30 years, and yet I don't know half the lyrics.
		Jesus, what have I been singing all this time?" A quick visit to Google.com, typing in " 'Won't Get Fooled Again' lyrics," finally shed some light.
	www.pauseandplay.com /wgfa.htm (2135 words)

	NYPOST.COM Movie Reviews: SO SARI, 'GURU' - BINDI THERE, SEEN THAT By JONATHAN FOREMAN
		"The Guru" dismally fails to do anything with the joke of Ramu being someone whose entire idea of America comes from movies - and it's weirdly biteless when it comes to making fun of New Age hocus-pocus or the '60s superstition that India is more sexually sophisticated and free than the West.
		TO enjoy "The Guru," it helps to be a little familiar with the conventions of the romantic "masala" musicals churned out by India's "Bollywood" film industry - including their exuberant, obviously lip-synched song-and-dance numbers and their formulaic, melodramatic plots.
		But to play the role, Ramu must continue picking Sharonna's brain for sexual/spiritual wisdom, and he finds himself falling in love with her, even though she is engaged to a firefighter boyfriend who knows nothing of her porn career.
	www.nypost.com /movies/53811.htm (2135 words)

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