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...then weren't afraid to sign bands like the Stooges or the MC5 or the Modern Lovers. All these bands were commercial flops, so it's understandable that labels were chastened, but each produced a body of art that ought to have bands like Third Eye Bland and Dave bleedin' Matthews throwing themselves off bridges in shame, or at least wetting themselves with envy...

Author: By Ben Mckean, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Boston Big-Shot Returns to Bean-Town | 11/13/1998 | See Source »

Everything else fell into place, and apart. The no-sweat crooner singing someone else's tune disappeared. Now, thanks to Bob Dylan, everyone was a singer-songwriter, a bleedin' artiste, with a go-to-hell-or-watch-me-writhe-there attitude. Formality gave way to the tyranny of the casual. Billionaire entrepreneurs dressed like the nerds in the family garage they always were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pop Culture: High And Low | 6/8/1998 | See Source »

...trio also laments inner-city despair on the ballad Waterfalls (``My only bleedin' hope/ Is for the folk who can't cope''). But the secret of TLC's success isn't social commentary. It may not fit the initials, but what TLC really stands for is pure, funky fun. And CrazySexyCool delivers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRIPLE JUMP | 1/30/1995 | See Source »

...trio also laments inner-city despair on the ballad Waterfalls ("My only bleedin' hope/ Is for the folk who can't cope"). But the secret of TLC's success isn't social commentary. It may not fit the initials, but what TLC really stands for is pure, funky fun. And CrazySexyCool delivers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: Triple Jump | 12/19/1994 | See Source »

...fall"). Laughter erupts from three colleens parodying a Nat King Cole hit ("They tried to sell us egg foo yung"). The recollected terror of a vicious father can be tempered by his early death. The daughter who vowed, "If I ever get a gun, I'll blow your bleedin' brains out," will sob on her wedding day, "I want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Family Ties | 8/14/1989 | See Source »

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