Word: classics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...remake of Blondie's "Heart of Glass." While the chorus was still recognizably Blondie, the song was transformed into a bruised industrial stomp. Tricky's numerous remakes proved to be the high points of the evening. Among the crowd pleasers was "Black Steel," which turned Public Enemy's classic "Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos" into full-bore rock, and, what's more, made white kids from the suburbs dance to it. Tricky ended his set with "Pumpkin," in which he achieves the seemingly impossible task of making a Smashing Pumpkins sample into dubby groove. Halfway through the song...
...live the world with such vistas opening everywhere and in everything--in time. Whether a practice or an object, I like to pick it up and see its history, its predecessors, its equivalents, and to question obsolescence as often as possible. It's not retro or "classic," it's not Luddite, it's not fetishization or nostalgia, nor noodling trivia-mongering, nor slavish creative anachronism...
...midlife, though, Jobs has mellowed enough to chuckle at that elevator story, and seems to have vanquished at least some of his personal demons. Adopted as an infant, Jobs spent his early adulthood on a classic '60s-era quest for personal identity, seeking transcendence and self-realization through drugs and meditation, founding Apple and establishing a New Age "family" of fervent Macintosh partisans while keeping his own out-of-wedlock daughter Lisa and her mother at a sad remove...
...Europe, deejay culture is more widely accepted. Bands like Roni Size's Breakbeat Era--whose new album, Ultra-Obscene (XL/ 1500/A&M), is a winner--and Portishead--whose 1994 album, Dummy, is a classic--build their sound around the turntable. But in the U.S., turntable rock is just starting to have a real impact...
...ages will fondly remember Sheriff Woody (voiced by Tom Hanks) and his battery-powered pal Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen), who together saved a lot of other toys from a fate worse than yard sales. This time hero Woody is the victim--kidnapped by Al to complete a set of classic '50s toys. Turns out Woody, or the marionette that inspired him, was once famous. He starred in his own TV show. He generated spin-off merchandise like radios, yo-yos, ukuleles. Heck, he was on the cover of TIME...