Word: 80s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Restic would again never find the glory of theearly to middle '80s. The years from 1989 to 1992are all a blur, devoid of winning seasons andlacking any hopes of any Ivy League titles...
Thomas was inspired by Laker's brainchild in the early 80s. It was not until last year, when she received her travel agent accreditation at the Crimson Travel School, that Thomas could include travel plans in Your Hair Salon...
...votes had the year before propelled an actor and a sycophant into the White House. More likely, however, "some people" was a reference to the punk rock community. Enamored of the mile-a-minute thrash of Jodie Foster's Army and Husker Dus's Land Speed Record, many early '80s punk rockers were hostile to Bad Religion simply because the band dared to cut melodious punk songs. And while the melody lines of early Bad Religion tunes were subsumed in chunky drum work, deliciously mediocre production and sheer velocity, the punk rock world complained that the band simply wasn...
...converted many early detractors into fans. BR has developed a substantial cult following, started its own record label and even collaborated with Noam Chomskyon an anti-Gulf War single. The Bad Religion soundis built on the sort of outrageously fast,aggressive and repetitive drum work associatedwith the early '80s Washington DC hardcore scene.The music of Bad Religion also owes a substantialdebt to, of all things, Klezmer. Klezmer wasinvented in Eastern Europe and has been kept aliveby Yiddish radio programs, bands who play barmitzvahs, and increasingly, by avant-garde jazzperformers. At its best, Bad Religion seamlesslyintegrates the soaring melodies of Klezmer...
...minutes were soon up; by the end of the '80s, M. Loaf was coaching kids' baseball in Connecticut. Meanwhile, Steinman worked on several off- Broadway musicals and created some wondrously pretentious, infectious numbers for Bonnie Tyler (Total Eclipse of the Heart) and the film Streets of Fire. If the Druids had needed jingles for their oak-grove revelries, Steinman would have been the man to write them. But his songs needed Meat Loaf's urgency to lift their rude majesty to Ouch over High C. So the old colleagues reunited for Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell...