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Dates: during 1990-1999
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MUSIC David Baerwald's tough new album is rock noir...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 3/29/1993 | See Source »

...Baerwald's cast of misfits, misbegottens and woebegones are not merely marginal types. They live on both sides of the margin: under it, like bats clinging to the top of a cave, and above it, delineating it, marking off new limits for themselves to cross. Triage is inhabited by both the victims and the perpetrators of power -- those whom it intoxicates, others whom it trashes. In order to remove any doubt about this, the record is dedicated to members of the diplomatic and espionage elite -- Henry Kissinger, the Dulles brothers and James Baker, among others -- "in the sincere hope that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Everyday Armageddons | 3/29/1993 | See Source »

...album kicks off with a track that never made it to Bedtime Stories, Baerwald's fine solo debut: A Secret Silken World, a chronicle of a Saturday- night pickup. Then it ricochets into The Got No Shotgun HydraHead Octopus Blues, which takes up -- with pulsing drums and crunching guitar -- the matter of reciprocal footsie between government and drug dealers. The record is not an editorial, however. Baerwald is not interested in pointing fingers; he wants to nail a mood of corruptive malaise and the autoeroticism of power. One of the record's spookiest and loveliest songs, The Postman, takes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Everyday Armageddons | 3/29/1993 | See Source »

...Baerwald is assured and savvy enough to mock his own obsessions (notably in AIDS & Armageddon: "I dream assassination/ I hallucinate cash") and to give even his most dour lyric excursions a solid foundation of rhythm throughout. You might not be able to party down to Triage, but you sure can dance to it -- right over the edge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Everyday Armageddons | 3/29/1993 | See Source »

...Baerwald making a short film based on the Triage album

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Everyday Armageddons | 3/29/1993 | See Source »

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