Word: epitaph
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...create more beautiful music? That music was often swell, and as leader of the most fan-friendly band in rock, Garcia was a sort of secular saint of pop culture. But he stuffed himself with seductive toxins--and the myth of the bohemian king--until he burst. His epitaph could be three words: Great. Full. Dead...
...communism fell in 1989. The words embraced all: winners and losers, soldiers and civilians, the innocent and the guilty. To Lubos and me, men whose people had been at war with one another not all that long ago in the century's greatest tragedy, it seemed the appropriate, conciliatory epitaph...
...dangerous to its efforts to win back disaffected white moderates. And his Rainbow Coalition is longer on enthusiasm than resources. Few other black leaders seem eager for a quixotic crusade that would probably end with a conservative Republican in power. Jackson himself would find that distasteful as a political epitaph. So the betting among insiders is that when Jackson presides at the next Rainbow Coalition conference in May, he will have worked out a rationale for reconciliation...
Punk today has a higher profile than anytime since the late 70s. Thanks to bands like Green Day and Offspring, it sells bigger than ever before. This unprecedented popularity has done wonders for Epitaph Records, an independent label which boasts two very successful punk acts: Offspring and Rancid. At a time when so many musical acts are labeled "rock influenced by punk," or "pop flirting with punk," Rancid could probably be best described as "punk flirting with punk-with a heavy dose of punk...
...songs which Rancid played from their self-titled debut album were on the whole less successful and less memorable. One of the best tunes of the evening, however, was "I Wanna Riot" which is currently only available on an Epitaph compilation CD, and as the b-side to "Roots Radical." A slow ska tune, "I Wanna Riot" came as a welcome relief to the slamming intensity of the rest of the show. The amazing thing was that the audience seemed to need it more than the band, which exhibited no signs of fatigue, even after racing through song after song...