Word: clubland
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...achieved its fame as a rock band, but before it broke out of Athens, Georgia, and found mainstream success, it was a college-dance-party band. How the West Was Won, with its staccato, insistent, danceable rhythm, returns the band to its roots. But the song isn't simply clubland fluff; there are more than a few arty touches, including the sustained existential howl Stipe uses to punctuate the end of several passages...
...Hills offices of her record company most of the day. Bjork likes her freedom. One hearing of her new album, Post, provides admirable demonstration of that: it's a twirling, uninhibited mix of songs-for example, the delightfully raving orchestral number It's Oh So Quiet or the pulsating clubland dance songs like Enjoy and the moody ballads like Possibly Maybe. This woman was not made for offices. She needs space, she needs hot microwaved popcorn, and she needs outta here...
...atmosphere of cultural confusion was palpable one recent night at the party to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Paper, the magazine of culture formation among the seriously hip. A good many of the names that show up in clubland gossip columns -- Veronica Webb, the model! Joey Arias, the drag queen! -- had shown up at the Supper Club, a party space in Manhattan's theater district. They were mixing with some of the high-concept personalities who have edged into more publicized realms. Like Lady Kier of Deee-Lite! (The recording group, something like the B-52s of house music.) Ricki...
...Pete Thomas's snare lightly searing your cranium. Trust contains, however, two clunkers: "Different Finger," another of Elvis's dreary, patronizing, untranscendent country numbers, and "Shot With His Own Gun," a song for your daddy with a tune too feeble to accommodate the tragic sourfulness Elvis pours into it. "Clubland" is diverting but stupid, with a deadly, unexpansive chorus that endlessly rehashes a bottom-of-the-barrel pattern of notes. Which leaves, among other things, a nice, tinny, almost Brechtian exhortation to immorality in "Fish 'n' Chips Paper" (ironic, of course, but, unlike Brecht, pessimistic), and a delicate number called...
...only among such snorting Oldsters in Clubland but among hard young men who count on doing as well out of the next war as their fathers did out of the last optimism was rife. Small-talk and chit-chat were of the Army's new "tank-piercing rifle" and the scandal that Czechoslovakia's "Bren" machine gun is so good that British armorers are going to have to pay huge royalties in order to lease the patents...