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Without the music to add complexitv and depth, an aural crutch suggesting richer emotion is gone. With the words on paper, without Dylan's raspy slur to disguise them, they can sometimes seem quite forced...
...case you can't come up with a long list of discs, have a glance below at my picks for the 10 best aural gifts of 1985. The social life you save may be your...
ROCKY IV contains few elements of a traditional film. Instead of a movie, Stallone has created a visual and aural experience design to bombast and overwhelm the viewer's senses. All the blows have been amplified and run through some electronic thingamajig to produce a sound much akin to a pack of wolves attacking a square mile of sheet metal. Clips from the earlier three movies fly past with the incredible rapidity of a flurry of Marvin Hagler haymakers to the pounding strains of "Burning Heart" by Survivor. The audience has to weather flashing lights, smoke, flags, flying drops...
...fronted by a Frenchman, the Stranglers used to thrash harder and scream louder than almost any other band. But Jean-Jacques Burnel, the vocal power behind the band, anticipated the swing of the gustatory pendulum on their album, IV, alienating some of their hardcore spikes-n-nails support. Aural Sculpture, the Strangler's latest, completes their metamorphosis from outraged punk outcasts to ingratiating pop insiders...
...challenging work, but its challenge is not intellectual; the inherent intellectual content is, by design, minimal The challenge, rather, is for the audience to suspend its accustomed intellectual response to drama, to treat the text more as music than as literature, and to respond to the visual and aural stimuli of the work as they would to a dreams viscerally, emotionally, or even intellectually, according to their own lights...