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...Stone would have you believe otherwise, Jim Morrison died from one drink too many. Guitar great Jimi Hendrix simply took more Quaaludes than were necessary. John Bonham, Led Zeppelin's drummer, should have been lying on his stomach after all those shots of vodka. But Kurt Cobain overdosed on buck shot...
...might have disappeared permanently if not for its canny ability simultaneously to buck and ride the new-wave trend, grafting its brawny, blues-inflected guitar licks onto slick synthesizer grooves and pulsing dance beats. On multiplatinum-selling albums such as 1983's Eliminator and 1985's Afterburner, guitarist Billy Gibbons, bassist Dusty Hill and drummer Frank Beard (the only bandmate without one) perfected a progressive yet reassuringly familiar rock stance and tapped a huge audience that shared their ambivalence. By the end of the decade, however, their sound had become all too accurately described by the title of their...
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...Malkmus has become addicted to REM (covering "Camera" on a b-side and writing a silly tribute to them for No Alternative) and Crooked Rain features a few gorgeous pastoral tunes--"Range Life" and "Gold Soundz" in particular--that are a million times better than anything Mssrs. Stipe, Buck, Berry and Mills have produced in years. The excellent opener, "Silence Kid," a message to a shy little boy who shouldn't listen to his grandmother's advice, seems to reference almost every sub-genre of rock (classic oldies, weird early '80s experimental music from New Zealand, and more) while still...
More than a century ago, the Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen hiked down the mountain range at Kvitfjell. It was, he recalled in his play Peer Gynt, akin to riding a wild buck through "the wide and dizzy void...