Word: disco
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bears. 10 Brookline St., Cambridge. 492-0082. Thinking Fellers Local Union #282, Sun City Girls, and Cul DeSac on Thursday, Nov. 5 (18+). Laughing Hyena, Smack Mellon, Spore, and Gaunt on Friday, Nov. 63. Olivz, Disco King, Riley's Field, and Falling August on Saturday, Nov. 7. P>Boy Meets Girls. Dress to impress. Cash bar. Sponsored by Harvard-Radcliffe Korean Student Association. Boston Marriott in Cambridge located at the Kendall Square T. Friday, Nov. 6 from 9 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. $10 at the door; $8 in advance...
...conceivable that the composer and the pop mogul might collaborate on a 73-minute 12-second postmodern song cycle you could dance or dream to. That's the symphonic rock album Moodfood, by the British duo MOODSWINGS (percussionist J.F.T. Hood and producer Grant Showbiz). The set punctuates its disco-liturgical luxuriance with ethereal vocals by Chrissie Hynde and a pulsar guitar solo by Jeff Beck. Mixing rap and classical and everything in between -- and then remixing it to suggest a Top 40 radio show beamed from Mars -- Moodfood is a haunting and hummable blast. It's like the sound track...
...Japan, by contrast, fans step forward and jump in. Whether performed in Japanese or in phonetic English, rap has become a point of generational challenge. "My parents say no more disco, but I must go to the disco," says Haruyo Kobayashi, 17. "When I listen to rap music I feel excited, and when I'm dancing, I feel free...
With such sparing, honest music, Avalon seemed inappropriate. The flashy lights and disco balls were too gaudy for a band which thrives on simplicity. With ads for WFNX and the Phoenix hanging every few feet, the band often looked like they were playing in a soda commercial...
Count on it. The last time the Lions topped the Crimson was 1978--when disco was big. Most of us weren't old enough to say "Columbia sucks" back then...