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...Grammys and gold records for years with her lite-FM pop. But younger Christian performers are now borrowing from a wider, more modern array of musical styles--such as alternative rock and gangsta rap--in an effort to create music that can appeal to a generation raised on Nirvana...
...courtroom drama in L.A. 3 THE BEATLES ANTHOLOGY (ABC) Remember an age of rock so innocent that young stars actually enjoyed being famous? The grand old geezers--Paul, George, Ringo--recalled the genial hysteria of Beatlemania in a three-night show of rare clips and rockin' good music. Nostalgia nirvana...
ROCK PERFORMERS USED TO THINK big. In the '70s and '80s, groups like Led Zeppelin and Genesis turned songs into epics stretching for seven, eight, nine minutes. But for the past several years--in part influenced by Nirvana, whose visceral songs got much of their power from their brutal succinctness--many rockers have opted for brevity. Hot bands like Green Day and Foo Fighters turn out short, single-minded songs whose melodies, like newly announced presidential candidates, strive for instant likability. That's not necessarily a bad thing: blasting Weezer on your Walkman after a hard...
Well, that was then. These days the misery index is just above 8, the lowest in a quarter-century, theoretically signifying a Nirvana-like America. Yet President Clinton spends much of his time saying he shares our pain. And this isn't just another example of his famously rampant empathy. Conventional wisdom has him presiding over seething economic discontent, even as he presides over an ongoing economic recovery that makes Europe and Japan envious...
OVER AND OVER AGAIN, ROCK critics have made the point that the angst-drenched songs of Nirvana and Pearl Jam are generational anthems for the under-30 set. But how true is it, considering that more 25-year-olds can probably recite the lyrics to the theme songs from Green Acres or Gilligan's Island than they can to, say, Kurt Cobain's Rape Me? Upbeat TV tunes are the hymns of the young in part because of good memory, in part because of Nick at Night, and very occasionally because of a sound-track album. From Henry Mancini...