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...hometown. Seattle Once you have caught the fancy of the moneyed suburbs, the price on your integrity becomes too big to resist: I knew that if Seattle had discovered British protest bands, their days were numbered. Three years later, Paul, Welfer--the prototypical Angry Young Man--cashed in the Jam's inarticulate outrage for the smooth sounds of cabaret Jazz at the same time that Boy George--the painted mockery of preening masculinity--snared the attention of transatlantic audiences. The dire warnings about the System co-opting integrity bands like the Clash was only rock-press pablum. Even...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: Aural Fixations | 5/10/1985 | See Source »

Sacrificing deliberation for speed, the Undergraduate Council tackled a jam-packed agenda to push through through a wide range of policy issues at a poorly attended Monday meeting...

Author: By Michael D. Nolan, | Title: Council Covers Policy Issues And Reports | 5/1/1985 | See Source »

...tragic and pathetic echoes. Thompson is one of the few guitarists in popular music who dares to use leaps of dissonance in his soloes: often you'll here bits of the blues, Celtic folk, heavy metal, and even classical stylings woven into the same song. Sometimes, in the overextended jam. "Country", for example, this variety can lack focus, but the results are always interesting--if not always ultimately satisfying...

Author: By Jeff Chase, | Title: To Be The Very Best | 4/26/1985 | See Source »

...amphetamine pace of "Fire In The Engine Room," "Little Blue Number" and "Tear-Stained Letter" without his usual barrage of accordians, horns, et al. "You Don't Say," the single weakest track on Crowded Room, became a furious dance song, fueled by harmonics and a vicious guitar jam. Throughout, Thompson and Gregson seemed determined to escalate the pace of their frequent duels, culminating in the third encore with a twelve-minute version of a Gregson original...

Author: By Jeff Chase, | Title: To Be The Very Best | 4/26/1985 | See Source »

...must confess that I find this a little strange, as I have always heard that American nuclear weapons were for defence only and, if you've been attacked, you would not need to jam communications as the enemy would undoubtedly expect retaliation. Still, I am sure there is an explanation that would not occur to simple souls like...

Author: By Naomi L. Pierce, | Title: Defending the Hearth | 4/17/1985 | See Source »

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