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Word: albums (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think about it, all this pre-menstrual screaming and yelling is reminiscent of nothing so much as the whining and complaining that we used to associate with funky female folkies. Methinks that the band doth protesteth too much, and this lack of subtlety, this blunt polemicism, can cut an album but it can't cut an attitude...

Author: By Elizabeth L. Wurtzel, | Title: Where's Rock's Sincerity? | 12/5/1988 | See Source »

...group really wants to get their music out to the masses. "We're definitely looking to make a record this year," says Brenner. "Our goal this year is to find the best deal [in terms of a record contract] and to cut an album...

Author: By Melanie R. Williams, | Title: Easy Being Green | 12/2/1988 | See Source »

...another goal scorer to the Crimson photo album...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Icemen Attack Keeps the Cameras Clicking | 11/23/1988 | See Source »

Rattle and Hum sounds big without being pretentious, an extraordinary accomplishment considering that the band has chosen to chronicle its own musical wanderings, then set them -- and this is the big step -- parallel to a deeper, even more personal striving. The album's first cut, an atomic remake of the Beatles' Helter Skelter, sets the trajectory as if it were a tour itinerary, an emotional playground journey from the bottom to the top of a slide "Where I stop and I turn/ And I go for a ride/ Till I get to the bottom/ And I see you again." Many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: U2 Explores America | 11/21/1988 | See Source »

...looking for home, and the song, fragile and heartrending, ends the record with unexpected quiet, and intimacy. It is a characteristically bold, even reckless move. Whatever was given up in 1987 remains a mystery, but it is clear, now, what U2 came away with -- the best live rock album ever made. The record, in every sense, of their lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: U2 Explores America | 11/21/1988 | See Source »

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