Word: 1997ã
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Still, two major electronic movements in recent memory have served as wake-up calls to America: the current trendiness of rave culture, led by superstar DJs and corporate entities, and 1997??s “electronica” craze. The latter saw a flurry of sensationalist stories in music magazines that envisioned the rock paradigm being overtaken by a legion of keyboard-wielding techno-freaks, in some kind of premillennial musical cyborg invasion. The truth was that artists like Prodigy and the Chemical Brothers themselves represented a rock-happy crossover breed, integrating elements from rave culture in order...
Dylan sounds like he has only a few shreds of vocal chordage left in him, but where his last album, 1997??s Time Out of Mind, sounded like the deathbed confession of a man who had seen (and sung) too much, this year’s Love and Theft finds the unrepentant Dylan leaping Beetle Juice-like out of his grave and back onto the road. Hands up those who thought he was already dead?...
...1997??s Whatever and Ever Amen still had much of the same angry-white boy rock and piano-boogie with songs like “One Angry Dwarf and Two Hundred Solemn Faces” and “Song for the Dumped.” But on their second album, the band began to delve more deeply into themes of loss and inability to cope with life which had only been hinted at in their first album. The more emotional side of the band soon started a chorus of comparisons to other piano rockers like Elton John...
...concepts involved aren’t hard, and in any case they have staff to explain it to them. The problem is that cloning is, in a sense, ethically new. Although The Boys From Brazil predates Dolly the sheep by almost two decades, it wasn’t until 1997??when the technology for human cloning seemed within reach—that the social and ethical debate was seriously joined. Abortion and euthanasia are also difficult issues, but at this point the detailed positions on them have been thought through, and arguments detailed enough to withstand some questioning...