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Theological Expl/Sophomore Experience These dinners are opportunities for sophomores: (a) to be introduced to each other, Vocational Vertigo, and the Lilly Programs and (b) to discuss vocation, identity, the "sophomore slump," and their related struggles. In fact, for many students, there is such a thing as the sophomore slump. Sophomores can also set up a meeting with Jill to talk individually about any of these programs or about any issues related vocation and identity (and this can be practically anything!). www2.davidson.edu /studentlife/carvoc/theo/soph.asp

:: Studio24 :: The Sophtware Slump :: The Sophtware Slump is a huge departure for Grandaddy- far from being their sophomore slump it's a sophomore jump. The Sophtware Slump is a solid album, it's far from perfect and yes, I'm not a huge fan of the vocals. The Sophtware Slump lies somewhere musically between Wish You Were Here, accousto-synth Pink Floyd, and OK Computer's technological dystopia. www.critical-x-mass.co.uk /studio24/music/reviews/thesophtwareslump.htm

Grieve Reviving Sophomore Jinx When the Phillies' Scott Rolen and Boston's Nomar Garciaparra followed up their Rookie of the Year awards in 1997 with even bigger '98 seasons, talk of the sophomore slump was all but dead. For most of the 1990s, the sophomore slump has become the sophomore surge. Of the 15 nonpitchers to win the top rookie award during the decade, 11 of them improved in at least one of the three Triple Crown categories (home runs, runs batted in and batting average). www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/04/30/SP8183.DTL&type=printable   (532 words)

Sophomore Slumps? from The Hardball Times The "sophomore slump" may be a cliche at this point, but it is obviously very real, at least in regard to major league Rookie of the Year winners. However, the two sophomores who improved their raw Win Shares the most from their rookie seasons were a National League starting pitcher (Gooden) and an American League shortstop (Ripken), so you never know. After going 17-9 with a 2.60 ERA in 218 innings as a rookie, Gooden was absolutely amazing in his sophomore season, going 24-4 with a 1.53 ERA in 276.2 innings, on his way to the National League Cy Young award. www.hardballtimes.com /main/printarticle/sophomore_slumps   (532 words)

Stinkweeds Online Music: Your independent source for indie, rare, new, import CDs, LPs and reviews. And if you consider "The Sophtware Slump" to be their first real record to gain any real acclaim and attention, "Sumday" seems to indicate to me that Grandaddy are going through somewhat of a "sophomore slump" themselves. I found "Sophtware Slump" to be a little more engaging because of the ups and downs of the record-- it almost mimicked the Silicon Valley in that sense. "The Sophtware Slump" was one of 2000's great records, a jab in the ribs to the CEOs populating Silicon Valley as they began to see their financial windfalls evaporate. www.stinkweeds.com /review_detail.cfm?rvID=252   (532 words)

CNN/SI - Inside Game - Ozzie Smith - CNN/SI's Ozzie Smith: Sophomore jinx - Sunday June 13, 1999 08:09 AM But this season the sophomore slump is hitting harder than ever. I didn't expect the sophomore jinx to hit Grieve as hard as it has. Oakland's Ben Grieve is barely batting.200 after hitting.288 with 18 home runs and 89 RBIs last year on his way to the AL rookie of the year award. sportsillustrated.cnn.com /inside_game/ozzie_smith/news/1999/06/10/smith_insider   (377 words)

Not a Glimmer of Sophomore Jinx for Twirlin', Singin' Sheryl Crow An exception to the rule of the sophomore slump, Crow was flying high. Not a Glimmer of Sophomore Jinx for Twirlin', Singin' Sheryl Crow On Saturday night, Crow returned to town for a sold-out concert at the Palace Theatre in support of her self-titled second album, proving that the first time 'round was no fluke. www.the-wallflowers.net /article022397b.htm   (428 words)

Popdirt.com - Michelle Branch Ignores Sophomore Jinx While the music world is watching to see if the Michelle Branch can avoid the all too common sophomore slump, she tells MTV News that she has made an effort to ignore the pressure. www.popdirt.com /print16298.html   (123 words)

The Shins: Chutes Too Narrow: Pitchfork Review The dreaded "sophomore slump" is hardly a fictional pitfall fabricated by bitter music journalists and defensive cred-mongers; the pressures of turning out a second record can be crippling for bands who've encountered early success, and it often results in an album that pales in contrast to its predecessor. Reality television, actors-turned-governors, and wrestlers-turned-rappers aside, it's hard to think of many things that elicit cynicism and offhand dismissal like a sophomore album on the heels of a hyped debut. Though not nearly the second coming of The Beach Boys as described by its most vocal proponents, the album was forged in melody and drenched in atmosphere, casting a thin but palpable haze over a beautifully arranged landscape of sincere hooks and sparse instrumentation. www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/s/shins/chutes-too-narrow.shtml   (123 words)

SI.com - Writers - Eliot: What sophomore jinx? - Monday October 27, 2003 2:01PM Not every player goes through a sophomore slump. And that goes for all of these super sophomores -- guys who are distancing themselves from any kind of second-year jinx. A glance around the league at players who made an impact as rookies a season ago indicates that quite a few guys are showing signs of being even better the second time around. sportsillustrated.cnn.com /2003/writers/darren_eliot/10/27/eliot.sophomores   (672 words)

Denali Prepares Sophomore Album - Aversion.com Denali's ready to do battle against the sophomore slump: It's prepared to enter a studio shortly. Denali plans to tour "relentlessly" to support the new album. The band will enter Tarquis Studios with producer Peter Katis (Interpol) to record the follow-up to last year's self-titled debut (read Aversion's review). www.aversion.com /news/news_article.cfm?news_id=1252   (672 words)

Dr. Jim Taylor The latter notion of the rebound effect is critical in that it distinguishes a sophomore slump from a regression toward the mean of ability. In order to ensure that the decline is not due to a regression toward the mean, it is proposed that evidence of a "rebound effect" must also be present for a decrement in performance to be considered a sophomore slump. It should also be pointed out that the findings in support of the regression toward the mean explanation may be interpreted in a manner that is also consistent with the notion of the sophomore slump as presently conceptualized. www.drjimtaylor.com /homtemplate/sophomoreslump.html   (2489 words)

2004 Toronto International Film Festival Update #8 From that reality comes the term "sophomore slump." Today, I'll focus on the new films from two of the most exciting directors to recently emerge from the American independent film movement. The first, Dylan Kidd, avoids the sophomore slump, although his second movie, P.S., doesn't have the same energy as his previous effort, Roger Dodger. The result is an intriguing and satisfying romance that may hold some appeal even for those who normally do not like films about affairs of the heart. www.colossus.net /movie-reviews/tiff2004/tiff2004_8.html   (2489 words)

The Great Curve: Alex Robinson avoids "Sophomore Slump" Alex Robinson considered calling his second graphic novel Sophomore Slump. The Great Curve: Alex Robinson avoids "Sophomore Slump" Robinson’s first graphic novel had Beatles references as well, and in a recent e-mail interview, that was one of the topics he addressed. thegreatcurve.net /2006/02/alex-robinson-avoids-sophomore-slump.html   (283 words)

Kathleen Edwards - Back to Me Music critics trundle out the "this is not a sophomore slump" cliché each time an artist manages to cobble together an acceptable second album. How many reviews have you read that begin with some variant of the following: "On his/her second release (insert album title here), so-and-so refuses to succumb to the sophomore slump"? Edwards is not only observant, but a crafty wordsmith. www.cheezeball.net /Reviews/14Mar2005-KathleenEdwards.htm   (394 words)

Warrior Soul - Satan Stole My Teddybear Warrior Soul never seemed to recover from their sophomore slump and further releases never did capture the excitement of the debut. With an exceptional and striking debut under the belts, Warrior Soul was poised to take on the big boys of post-metal with Drugs, God & the New Republic, but it seemed a monkey wrench was thrown into the works on the sophomore release. The tragic nature of Warrior Soul is when they were on, they were dead on and a precision drill into your ears. www.ssmt-reviews.com /db/searchrev.php?artistID=1217&showReview=true   (493 words)

Gloria Gaynor : Experience Gloria Gaynor - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect Whether or not Gaynor is catering to dancefloors, the singer shows no signs of a sophomore slump on Experience Gloria Gaynor. Gloria Gaynor's excellent sophomore effort Experience Gloria Gaynor found the influential disco diva embracing the same format she had favored on her first album, Never Can Say Goodbye; side one is a nonstop three-song dance mix that clocks in at almost 19 minutes, whereas on side two, there are breaks between songs. To her credit, Gaynor breaths new life into the standard and demonstrates that it can work remarkably well in a disco-soul setting. www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,91087,00.html   (248 words)

Amazon.co.uk: Music: Under the Pink Tori avoided the sophomore slump with this album because of these factors, and was then free to continue making excellent music for the next ten years. Therefore, the second purchase I made was that of "Under The Pink," Tori's sophomore release from 1994. Tori sings of wanting to kill a waitress who's worked at a cafe a year longer than her. www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000002IXU   (248 words)

www.straight.com - print page Nicholls has written a lot of songs over that period, and it's perhaps for that reason that his band shows no signs of a sophomore slump on Winning Days, which ranges from overheated fuzz pop to cellophane-flowers psychedelia. It's well-documented that Nicholls rarely gives interviews, which explains why the Vines' drummer is the one on the phone talking about the group's sophomore album, Winning Days. Where that's probably resonating with Rosser is that he's also in a band with a singer, Craig Nicholls, who has been hailed as something of a prodigy but who isn't always comfortable with the adulation. www.straight.com /Print_Page.cfm?id=2041   (1221 words)

Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Battle Hymns - The Suicide Machines at Epinions.com But the lack of commercial success of this album isn't just due to the timing of its release; the fact is is Battle Hymns is a case of the sophomore slump, a slump the band even today has not seemed to really break out of. Battle Hymns is probably the band's second best album, but that isn't saying much, given how good the debut is, and how inconsistent they've been. But by the time Battle Hymns, the band's second disc, was released in April of 1998, ska-punk had lost its latest moment in the sun. www.epinions.com /content_133990944388   (1221 words)

Amazon.com: Music: Black Cherry [ENHANCED] Much of the anticipation leading up to Black Cherry came from wondering how Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory would pull this off: to replicate their art-hop masterpiece or fall into the disastrous sophomore slump.The two settled on a sound heavily steeped in the current electro revival as a foundation for Goldfrapp's icy vocals. I still don't own Goldfrapp's first release "Felt Mountain", so without making any comparisons to their supposedly brilliant debut, I can say that their sophomore effort "Black Cherry" is a wild, bouncy, nuanced techno ride of an album. Goldfrapp's Black Cherry inhabits a dark alley, bristling with urban menace and throbbing with a deep electronic pulse--a far cry from their breezy debut, which gently led the listener to a fairytale aural utopia occupied by Parisian pop, whistling divas and baroque masters. www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00008XERP?v=glance   (1221 words)

In Music We Trust - Orgy: Vapor Transmission Platinum-selling industrial-pop band Orgy are back at it with their sophomore release, Vapor Transmission, an album that has all the signs of a sophomore slump written all over it. Then again, corporate radio may latch on for the ride carry the band on to yet another platinum-selling success story. The band rode one hit off their debut release. www.inmusicwetrust.com /articles/35e04.html   (84 words)

Amazon.com: Evil Empire: Music: Rage Against the Machine Sophomore albums can be tricky, but the band only goes through a sophomore slump if their debut was a success. This was the case with Rage Against the Machine; their self-entitled, 1992 debut was a great one, so Rage had to be careful when it came time to write the new album. I used to be the biggest Rage Against the Machine fan in all of Northwest Indiana (my female co-worker's little brother has taken my place), but all I like to listen from them now is their self-titled and a bunch of live bootleg CDs from their 1993 tour. www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000024VO8?v=glance   (2146 words)

CONCERT REVIEW: Fuel Sweats to Success -- The Band’s Latest Concert Spree Through Massachusetts Doesn’t Let Fans Down Many bands encounter the sophomore slump, but if there is such thing as a sophomore spike Fuel has achieved it. Fuel then kicked the pace back up as Brett put away his guitar and put all his efforts into wielding the microphone for “Down.” He spent a lot of time at the edge of the stage shaking hands with the fans. After the concert there was an opportunity to talk to the band and some of their biggest fans backstage. www-tech.mit.edu /V121/N29/Fuel_Concert_Re.29a.html   (705 words)

Blogcritics.org: Disturbed: Believe Disturbed is back and is definitely not suffering from a sophomore slump. Disturbed's sophomore album is a required addition to any metal fan's collection. Disturbed has done a terrific job on their new album on showing this, and attempt to return that element that has seemed lost back to their music. blogcritics.org /archives/2002/10/04/091557.php   (2525 words)

Lifehouse: Songs in the key of angst - The Honolulu Advertiser Working to avoid a sophomore slump, Lifehouse wound up with the very thing it dreaded with its 2002 follow-up CD "Stanley Climbfall." The over-thought, often meandering "Stanley" sold fewer than 500,000 copies, and its tracks were mostly ignored by radio. One underwhelming sophomore CD later, Lifehouse is back from potential one-hit-wonderland with another huge radio hit ("You and Me") and yet another on-its-way-to-a-million-in-sales CD journal of Wade's life ("Lifehouse"). Lifehouse kicked off recording sessions for its self-titled third CD last year with a new label (Geffen, which bought out DreamWorks), a new producer (John Alagia, known for his work with the Dave Matthews Band, John Mayer and Jason Mraz) and a new bassist (Bryce Soderberg). www.honoluluadvertiser.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051021/ENT03/510210317/1123/ENT   (990 words)

R.E.M. - Reckoning sputnikmusic There next album is Reckoning which is there sophomore album and I would like to say that they avoid the sophomore slump. Reckoning consists of catchy jangle pop tunes, catchy melodies, thoughtful lyrics, and the best part is that none of these songs sound the same. Reckoning is an album that consists of catchy alt/rock and jangle pop tunes, there isn’t anything dark or hard rocking about it. musicianforums.com /sputnik/album.php?reviewid=4067&...&styleid=18   (1261 words)

U-WIRE.com/CD REVIEW: Mastodon provide release during rough times This is the sophomore album that defies the dreaded "sophomore slump." "Leviathan" the kind of concept album that most bands can only dream of pulling off. The words "concept album" are usually enough to turn off most music snobs, or at least raise a few eyebrows, but "Leviathan" is a rare feat for a concept album. The album's cover art, which features a giant white whale and a ship struggling in a tumultuous sea, pays homage to the classic Herman Melville novel "Moby Dick" and immediately shed light into the concept behind the album. www.uwire.com /content/topae120704003.html   (484 words)

Evil Empire Sophomore albums can be tricky, but the band only goes through a sophomore slump if their debut was a success. Evil Empire is not as good as the previously self titled album, but is still better than anything else out today. Evil Empire had a sound that was not matched on any other album. 494038.onlinesportdiscount.com /3436373937302d312d42303030303032394439.html   (1806 words)

Amazon.com: Evil Empire: Music: Rage Against the Machine Sophomore albums can be tricky, but the band only goes through a sophomore slump if their debut was a success. This album touches of varied aspects of the political climate from mistreatment of the Chiapanecos, a Indian group in Mexico that revolted against the government because of the bad quality of life and injustice they suffered. This album does have more of an alternative element than their debut but it is not overshadowed though. www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000029D9?v=glance   (2048 words)

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