Word: axle
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scored a No. 1 album; Bush and Live, after hiatuses, have new (mediocre) CDs out. There's also Woodstock 99, a mostly dull double CD with live songs by rock-hoppers (Limp Bizkit, Korn) and straight-ahead rockers (Godsmack, Buckcherry) drawn from this summer's controversial concert. No wonder Axl Rose and his band, Guns n' Roses, picked this musical moment to attempt a comeback, contributing a fierce, though somewhat tuneless, new song to the sound-track CD for the forthcoming film End of Days. Lilith Fair is over, my friend. It's safe for the bad boys to come...
...Rock will go off on a comic jam session. Take white rap-rock. "It's kind of sad that when you watch MTV, you don't see a lot of cool white guys anymore that are cool without acting black," he says. "Like when I was a kid, Axl Rose was cool. David Lee Roth was cool. And they were cool and white. And acting white. Comfortable in their whiteness. Now everybody tries to act black. Kid Rock looks like he sleeps in RUN-D.M.C.'s closet...
Layton, who lectures in universities across thecountry, says her rapidly-changing subject matterhas been something of an occupational hazard. Thepublicity information for her lecture isillustrated with a picture of Madonna, Axl Roseand Thelma and Louise...
...Since I made that publicity material, there'sa whole new generation of college students, andwho knows if they even care about Axl Rose," shesays...
...best cuts are those that pair Sinatra with distinctive singers confident enough simply to be themselves. Patti LaBelle brings a rich, unfettered soulfulness to Bewitched, Linda Ronstadt an easy clarity to Moonlight in Vermont. Rumor had it that Axl Rose was to have appeared on Duets II. One wonders what he might have done with My Kind of Town, a song that here couples Sinatra with his most unabashed emulator, Frank Sinatra...