Word: blaster
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...knock a couple years off any poor pup's life. And "The Bells," especially, is a terrific way to round off your Poe-portion. Find yourself getting sleepy? Little Weak? Sorta drowsy? Recite "The Bells" aloud into a tape deck, pop your recording into an industrial strength ghetto blaster, and let-errrrrip, full volume, for dozing neighbors. Run-DMC's got nothin' on Poe...though they might make a mean team. "The TIN-too-NAB-yoo-LAY-shun of duh BELLS BELLS BELLS BELLS BELLS BELLS BELLS! HUNH...
...guaranteed to knock a couple years off any poor pup's life. And "The Bells," especially, is a terrific way to round off your Poeportion. Find yourself getting sleepy? Little weak? Sorta drowsy? Recite "The Bells" aloud into a tape deck, pop your recording into an industrial strength ghetto blaster, and let 'er rrrrrip, full volume, for dozing neighbors. Run-DMC's got nothin' on Poe... though they might make a mean team: "The TIN-too-NAB-yoo-LAY-shun of duh BELLS BELLS BELLS BELLS BELLS BELLS BELLS! HUNH...
...Remain in Light (1980) and the stunning Speaking in Tongues (1983) have a heavy soul inflection and an African accent. When Byrne collaborated with Rock Producer and Theorist Brian Eno on My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (1981), the results were like trance music programmed for a ghetto blaster...
...costumes are not Elizabethan, but rather more like Adams House, circa 1986. It is perhaps for this reason that such things as the playing of "Freak Out" over a ghetto blaster at the Capulet's party doesn't seem incongruous...
...main problem with this film is that it peaks early. Max becomes the deciding piece in a bizarre power struggle between Auntie, who controls the surface of Bartertown, and Master Blaster, a two person unit that controls the energy supply of the city below ground. This confrontation is resolved early on in a fight to the death in an arena called Thunderdome. The rest of the film is hence "Beyond Thunderdome...