Word: cools
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Stones are aware of the risks. What looked cool, dodgy, outrageous a while back could look antique and stupid now, more like a Monty Python skit. "The parody aspects of it are overwhelming," Keith admits. "It'll kill the music, you know?" Watching the Stones take their chances with all this -- for revenue, for glory and for something more -- has become a new part of the show. They could become what they used to mock...
Minimalists trying to imitate the pin-drop prose of the late Raymond Carver would consider Banks' style uncool. But judging from the author's output, cool seems like a social disease. His structures lack grace but carry the weight of his passion and concern...
...also has a problem with the deejays. "The Top 40 stations won't play it," says Rudman, even though some rap (by Tone Loc, Run-D.M.C., L.L. Cool J and the all-white Beastie Boys, among others) has busted through onto the upper regions of the pop charts. Not all the young action is rap, though. Ziggy Marley, one of Bob's band of children, has got the gift and, to go with it, a light way with carrying a heavy torch. On One Bright Day, the new album he made with the Melody Makers (his younger brother Stephen...
Marley likes rap ("Yeah, mon. It's cool") but swears allegiance to reggae. Rap has proved to be a fertile source of inspiration for the ravishing Nenah Cherry, whose hit single Buffalo Stance dressed street sound up in supper-club clothes without sacrificing funk. Bobby Brown, the soul flash of the moment, made an album that sold more than 4 million copies and spawned three hit singles, marrying the sensuality of Marvin Gaye to the unearthly musical surprises of Prince...
...retrograde or nostalgic, but it does hearken heavily to the indwelling mysteries that Dylan and the Band and Van Morrison also heard. "The Call is a band for people who feel things extremely," says Michael Been, the group's songwriter. "We're not for people who are extremely cool, for whom cool is the ultimate expression." From available auguries, it seems that the '90s may not be too cool either, so the Call should fit right in, finally. They have been cult favorites for about ten years now, but the title track of the new album is % getting some wide...