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...last time the music business fell into a slump, Madonna was a Cyndi Lauper wannabe, the theme from Miami Vice was a No. 1 hit and the rising star known as Prince still had a name that didn't look like a typo. The year was 1985, and although shipments of recorded music were down 4%, the worst the industry had to worry about--hair spray and tight pants aside--was that some listeners liked to mix their own cassette tapes with favorite tunes from the latest Phil Collins or Duran Duran albums. Record companies dealt with this casual piracy...
...find a suitable comparison is a challenge. At times her voice takes on the fullness of Melissa Etheridge, at times the angsty adrenaline of Alanis Morisette or the quiet pensiveness of the new and improved Tiffany. And every now and then there is even a hint of Cyndi Lauper strangeness. It grates, it climbs, it answers...
...Girls,” where Tricky puts Prodigy in their place, sneering, “I’m not a firestarter, ‘cause I’m a little smarter”), Alanis Morissette, Ed Kowalczyk of Live, and, perhaps most bizarrely, Cyndi Lauper on “Five Days” (remember “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun”?) Tricky is completely unrepentant about the commercially appealing nature of the album: Blowback is Tricky’s re-introduction to MTV after conquering his demons. He has found himself a rock solid band...
...which SST, the most influential of indie labels, could scrape by despite its "stoner administrative quality," as Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo puts it; and, as Bob Bert alleges in one story, Sonic Youth could absent-mindedly sign contracts with two labels for the same songs. As Cyndi Lauper once observed, money changes everything...
...with the losing side in any war, we will resist the truth as long as we can. We will listen to Cyndi Lauper and Dr. Dre on the golden oldies station. We will collect mint-condition "Now-And-Later" labels at area auctions and wonder whatever happened to Mr. T. We will bemoan an age in which people no longer take the time to e-mail...