Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SHOCK FOLLOWS SHOCK: Lydia follows "Mechanical Flattery" with "Gloomy Sunday," an organ-laden bit of doom straight out of Nico's Desertshore. Pat Irwin distinguishes herself on oboe by floating chromatic leads over the top, more than similar in style to Roxy Music's Andy Mackay. Lunch whispers her way through the materials, setting up gothic imagery much better than one might have imagined. In fact, the complete song is quite effective, not unlike reading one's first Roald Dahl story. The true thrust of the album is found in this crosscurrent of styles. Lydia Lunch definitely draws on these...
Some things never change. Reading period settles over the banks of the Charles like the gray doom that accompanies it. The streets ice over, the zippers go up and Tommy's does a booming business. Some people make lists (Monday: research for paper, reading for Soc Sci, reserve reading for Nat Sci; Tuesday: outline paper, more reading for Soc Sci, general panic). Some people disappear into the dead zones of Widener, wandering through the stacks in search of something more interesting that "Population Demography of Rural Pakistan" and staring out the windows to ponder the meaning of life...
...live in an age of technology. And, even though that technology threatens to doom us, that same technology threatens to doom us, that same technology is now providing us with an exceptionally rich view of ourselves and our universe...
...transported in a time machine to a different tonality of mood, one has only to listen to Moritat (Ballad of Mack the Knife). Datelined 1928, here is the authentic shiver of Nazi gangsterism stalking the streets of doom. All the great numbers follow - Alabama-Song, Surabaya Johnny, Bilbao Song, Ballad of the Pimp and the Whore. In all these songs, a caustic social vision is wedded to a winningly expansive lyricism. This Cabaret is a feast for Broadway...