Word: deliriums
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...everything: sex, violence, comedy, thrills, tenderness. It's an anthology and apotheosis of American pop movies: Frankenstein, Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Nutty Professor, 2001, Alien, Love Story. It opens at fever pitch and then starts soaring-into genetic fantasy, into a precognitive dream of delirium and delight. Madness is its subject and substance, style and spirit. The film changes tone, even form, with its hero's every new mood and mutation. It expands and contracts with his mind until both almost crack. It keeps threatening to go bonkers, then makes good on its threat, and still...
...companies alike. He has been mythologized, parodied (in Brian De Palma's film Phantom of the Paradise, as the satanic superproducer) and eulogized by musicians, rock critics and Tom Wolfe (in one of his best pieces of razzmatazz, The First Tycoon of Teen). The vaulting arrangements and majestic delirium of songs such as Be My Baby and He's a Rebel and River Deep-Mountain High and You 've Lost That Lovin' Feeling have been endlessly imitated. They have never been equaled, except by Spector himself. Outside attempts to duplicate "the Spector wall of sound" only...
Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Rust Never Sleeps (Reprise/Warner Bros., 1979). Young's songs are benedictions at the end of a long, troubled night. This album strikes a neat balance between reverie and delirium...