Word: albums
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tracy Chapman album: Tower Records...
Geffen is already a mini-conglomerate, making its mark in three entertainment fields: music, movies and Broadway. On Geffen Records, the debut album by rockers Guns N' Roses was ranked No. 4 on last week's Billboard chart. The Geffen film division scored this year's sleeper hit, the comic ghost story Beetlejuice; Geffen Theater co-produced M. Butterfly, the 1988 Tony Award winner for best play...
...apartment and take her men away for interrogation. Remembering such nighttime incidents, she blinks back tears. "I start bleeding inside when I see my husband humiliated and my sons beaten." Yet she does not attempt to dissuade her sons from active involvement in the uprising. Opening a photo album, she stares at the face of the Khaled she remembers as a "very quiet boy, obedient and very sensitive." In the next breath she proudly praises him as a "Palestinian nationalist...
...generation of record buyers, so it's no accident that Tracy Chapman arrived recently at a record store near you. Because it would seem that she is the real--as in, she's been there--voice of oppression, since she is Black and female, a genuine minority. And her album could inspire an entire march on the White House--it's got racism, wife-beating, poverty--everything but the plight of the American farmer...
There is enough new country music around just now to make it seem like a 365-day spring down in Nashville. There is music of anger (Steve Earle) and oddness (Lyle Lovett), music full of craft and winning ways like the tunes on a Randy Travis album. But, with the exception of the wondrous O'Kanes, the sounds in the country air do not abound with enigma. Country has traditionally run to chill depths, though. When Patsy Cline sang Walking After Midnight, she found a lonesomeness whose locus was closer to the soul than the heart. When the Cowboy Junkies...