Word: albums
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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STING continued joining two songs together or remixing old tunes especially for concerts. But at times during the one-hour, 17-minute first set, the band was content to reproduce the new album's sound on stage instead of surpassing...
...group's third member is D.J. Kid Swift, ahighly ranked professional disk jockey. "The d.j.of a rap album," Shecter explained, "is the guywho manipulates the record on the turntable toproduce a scratching sound...
...from the ideal perspective: deep inside. Their inventive synthesizer work makes music so stylized it becomes otherworldly. In the words of one admiring London critic, "They know how to use their computers." The Pet Shop Boys' tunes are inventive and danceable; It Couldn't Happen Here, on their new album Actually, was co-written with the formidable film composer Ennio Morricone. Their lyrics are jagged fragments of social observation and romantic speculation honed to a keen cutting edge. Two lines from Rent put it neatly: "I love you/ You pay my rent...
...harking back to the brash activism and overheated playing of the late-'70s Clash era. In Hull, 150 miles north of the London scene, the Housemartins are purveying a pared-down rock with simple instrumentation and lots of political power heard to excellent effect on their most recent album, The People Who Grinned Themselves to Death. "In the north," reports Paul Heaton, Housemartins founder, co-songwriter and lead singer, "there aren't that many bands that can afford syndrums, synthesizers, brass. We're afraid to embrace full modern-pop production because sounding like a total pop band would be going...
Weaton calls himself a radical socialist, but the Pet Shop Boys, who shy away from direct political writing and look like fashion objets themselves, end up saying the most about the Britpop scene and about the years of Thatcher's England. Shopping, from their current album Actually, sounds like a recessional hymn for a fashion show until Tennant's lyrics catch hold: "Our gain is your loss/ That's the price you pay/ I heard it in the House of Commons/ Everything's for sale." Britpop may be so smooth and cool that it has brought...