Word: behinds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Menace II Society), but Tupac was Tupac and Saafir is, well, not much relatively speaking. The Hit List, while featuring a few tracks worthy of transitional status on the turntable (most notably the head-nodding "Runnin' Man" and the opening monologue to the title track), is still light years behind the seminal 2pacalypse Now and doesn't even approach the pyrotechnics of his own earlier efforts...
...deliver their special blend of mayhem with an unmatched fury and cynical edge but at times it's hard not to get dragged down in all the gloominess. Closing with their unofficial theme song, "You F**ked Yourself," Quasi leave the stage dragging the broken carcass of pop music behind them...
...what happens next: Iggy and his flunkies play "Raw Power," letting loose enthusiasm genuine and copious. Hard to criticize Iggy performing one of his great songs, and performing it pretty well. And there's the problem, I think. When Iggy was in the Stooges--before they became VH-1 "Behind the Music" material--the Stooges meant something. Sure they were a buncha high school drop-out glue-sniffing losers who made a hellacious garage noise with instruments they could barely play, but they had something to say. Basically: "screw you, I am human and alive and can hurt myself more...
...anything, be it pain or hate or love or happiness, but willing to settle for anger and self-loathing. Because it's better than feeling nothing, than living in '70s suburban Michigan and not meaning shit to anybody, even yourself. That was Iggy 30 years ago; Iggy now is "Behind the Music." So now Iggy's on stage and 50 and performing the same songs he was then. Sure, the band's lousy and thrusts every single great song they perform through a meat grinder which turns'em into generic hard rock, but still: "Raw Power," "Search and Destroy...
...preseason Ivy media poll, Harvard was picked to finish behind Penn, Princeton and Dartmouth...