Word: lyricisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sons--Lyric Stage, 54 Charles St., Boston...
Weather Underground Organization. Originally called Weatherman (after the Bob Dylan lyric "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows"), the group was formed in 1969 by about 300 mostly white, middle-class youths who split from the relatively nonviolent Students for a Democratic Society and called for an "armed struggle against the state." A hard core of about 40 Weathermen went underground in 1970 to start a terror campaign. In March of that year three members died in the explosion of a town house in New York City's Greenwich Village; Katherine Boudin...
...Sons--Lyric Stage, 54 Charles St., Boston...
...average song, like the horn-sectioned ditty-turned-anthem "I Need Your Love" or the off-beat, off-key "Lisa Likes Rock and Roll". Other times, it causes weak songs to show up even worse, like the ostentatious "Leave Me Alone," which sounds like Donna Summer having lost her lyric sheet, or the let's-play-with-synthesizers "Noises", which musically proves its lyrical intent--"Noises: the sound of mediocrity." The obligatory Hunter ballads sound tired--"Old Records Never Die" is certainly the result of a bottom-of-the-barrel search for a hero--and "Rain" is a sedative that...
Burns, Blake and the Recovery of the Lyric--Leopoid Damrosch; Boylston Auditorium...