Word: albums
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recent successes, including his album,EMO2, and a Cinemax special seem to have left him somewhat ambivalent about fame. He says, "It's okay. I don't mind. It's nice. I don't care. I hate...
Here's Emo the Pragmatist, the one who has "a plan to get Hasenfus out of Nicaragua--trade Daniloff for him." In March, this Renaissance man of comedy can be seen in "HBO On Location," and in April he will be releasing a new album on Epic Records and appearing in the film remake of Journey to the Center of the Earth...
...Bruce fans were not fanatical enough to ignore a good buy. The Coop drowned out its competition with a record sale of 1200 copies. Assistant Buyer Bobby Hall says that the Coop had not had that kind of one-day record sale since the release of Springsteen's album "The River" in 1980. "With everybody out of school, it was a real zoo in here," said Hall...
...David Byrne says, this ain't no party, this ain't no disco, this ain't no foolin' around. Gordon's Innocent, a collection of ten tracks, has the electrified, hypnotic, postminimalist drive familiar to mainstream audiences from the Talking Heads, but with a rougher, anarchic bite. Indeed, the album is a Who's Who of the downtown crowd: one song, The Day the Devil Comes to Getcha, has words by Laurie Anderson, and supporting musicians include Percussionist David Van Tieghem. Innocent is a walk on the wild Lower East Side, a long way from Lincoln Center...
Unlike the songs on Stratas' earlier album, The Unknown Kurt Weill, these are among the composer's most familiar. The soprano's increasingly raw voice is not entirely suitable to the works of the American period, like the wistful waltz Foolish Heart, from One Touch of Venus. But it is just right for the angry desperation of the Brecht-Berlin years; the harsh, bitter edge to the smoky Surabaya-Johnny proclaims there will be no happy end here...