Word: 90s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While I always considered them to be just another one hit wonder band from the 80s (their 1983 single "Red Red Wine" is lost somewhere in my dusty cassette collection but is still alive on my MP3 player), UB40 has not died, and neither has reggae. While hints of '90s pop and European disco influences surface throughout Labour of Love III, rich, warm harmonies and gentle, rocking beats transport listeners once again to those light hippie days of the '70s. Still, it's hard not to smile at lyric eloquence like "I love you. I love you. I love...
...problems of migration and refugees, Fritz's "postcard from oblivion," are more pronounced than many people realize and will not disappear anytime soon. From 1989 to the mid '90s more than 50 million people were violently displaced from their homelands and much more than twice that amount left for economic reasons. Citing fears form the failure of Vietnam as haunting the U.S. and preventing it from assuming a larger role as peacekeeper in the world, Fritz suggests a possible solution being the creation of a "special military branch for the sole purpose of enforcing peace agreements." With the recent success...
...bluesy pop and Arabic lyrics about truth and political oppression--but these flavors are overfused and hyper-blended into watered-down mush. In including too much, Geddia is mostly empty and ineffective. It doesn't make you want to dance, it makes you want to shop. Perhaps a late-'90s Ofra Haza, Atlas has produced ideal background music for burning incense, vintage clothes or those times when you want to impress guests with slightly exotic, non-English, just sexy-enough worldliness. Judith Batalion
...forum later focused on a more general discussion of how the media and the public have come to portray war in the 90s, and how Kosovo may be a lesson for both...
Bass, who covered the Balkans in the early '90s, also said past experience with regional conflicts "may have put [the U.S.] on a hair trigger...