Word: 90s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...should not be consigned to the world music section of record stores. It's a pop and hip-hop album, and it markets itself as such, down to Martin Ledyard's hip stylised cover art. "Songe" and the impossibly beautiful "Call Waiting" both blend in the stuttering backbeats of 90s R&B, while the inclusion of rapper Black Thought (from the Roots, Philly's famed hip-hop collective) on "Rafiki" makes a great counterpoint to Daulne's scat. Perhaps it's odd that a group that uses its foray into technology so well should decry its dehumanizing effects in their...
...farm and music with a "message." While my friend's musical idols were worrying about hair mousse and Hammer pants, mine were getting liver transplants. But the music I loved was distinctly dated fare, so I had hope that the new CSNY album would take some inspiration from the '90s. After all, the album's title was Looking Forward...
...late '90s have seen a veritable hailstorm of reunion acts, from the Eagles to Fleetwood Mac. While those bands chose to release compilation albums of their best hits in conjunction with their respective reunion tours, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young have once again refused to take the safe path, choosing instead to release this collection of new material...
...This obvious attempt to inject class is not only a shadow of Renoir's leftist leanings, but it also serves to set the grounding for the film's climax. The '90s viewer is accustomed to images of war camps populated with emaciated prisoners living in horrible conditions. Thus, Renoir's attempt to convey a POW camp is incredibly dated...
...Centered in this movie-world is Frank Pierce. Set in the early '90s, the film covers three nights in Manhattan in its heyday of urban despair. The whole world's an ambulance, it seems, and all the people in it merely victims. This movie pulls, emotionally as well as aesthetically. Sounds and colors of the sirens and streetlights are stretched out to a wail and a blur, and anguish tugs on every line of Cage's face. Many key scenes are cramped into the driver's seat and bloody siren lights stain the medics' faces. This gristly and sometimes hallucinatory...