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Last year's dance single "Temptation" was the best of New Order's early forays into disco and probably the best electronic dance music yet made. Its sobriety and minimalism could not hide an incredibly catchy hook and oblique lament that could bring a tear to the eye even while you danced...
...clarion cry "I see danger, danger, danger," falls into the first category. Like "Temptation," "The Village" softens up the eternal beat by relying more on programmed keyboard rhythms than on electronic drums to propel the song. But the treatment seems forced and the not-quite-that-catchy hook is shoved down the listener's throat until getting a cold respite of the pulse-like drum beat, and a few clipped notes from a real bass...
...Brand's novel solutions is to go to the networks. These are the hundreds of systems, many of them formed by amateur enthusiasts, that hook computer users together via telephone lines, permitting their members to exchange information, engage in long-distance debates or just gossip. The networks are in effect electronic bulletin boards. "They are the 20th century equivalent of the coffeeshops of Samuel Johnson's day," Brand has said. "Back then, the intelligentsia got loaded on coffee and tried to impress themselves. We'll get loaded on technology and do the same thing...
...Fleshtones also pull some catchy melodies out of their musical bag. "Deep in My Heart," with its ubiquitous "cheesy" Farfisa and Zaremba's mock crooning matches Romans Gods's "Hope Come Back" for hook quotient, while the mockingly stupid "Screamin Skull" competes with the Cramps' "Human Fly" for pure schlock brilliance...
...Exhibition of 1851. The N.Y.Y.C. insisted that the first challengers sail in solitude against a fleet of defenders and, in the interest of good seaworthy construction, travel to the site on their own bottoms. From 1870 until 1930, the race was set in Lower New York Bay, around Sandy Hook, where local knowledge was crucial. Though the visitors' hardships have gradually, very gradually, lessened through the years, the America's Cup still stands alone as the paragon of all home-course advantages. In 24 competitions, held every three years since 1974, the U.S. has never come close...