Word: punk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...BOTTOM LINE: A politically oriented punk quartet proves once again that nobody can buy its musical soul...
...Washington-based punk-rock band Fugazi was founded in 1987 on one principle: no sellout. Fugazi has never made a music video, never appeared on MTV's Beavis and Butt-head. They charge only $5 a ticket for their live shows and keep their CD prices between $8 and $10. Their music was grubby before grunge was grunge, featuring primal drum rolls, furious guitar feedback and more-leftist-than-thou lyrics. "You better start living the life/ That you're talking about," go the words to the group's 1988 song Bad Mouth. Despite this anticommercialism stance, or perhaps because...
...think of it, that album sounded a lot like the band's 1990 release, Repeater. Fugazi's greatest achievement, however, is not its music but its idealism. And idealism repeated over and over in the face of potentially corrupting success is a tribute to itself. Fugazi is living, punk-rocking proof that, as one of these new tracks says, "if it's not for sale...
...hooray for Hollywood, do-gooders might cheer. Whether from conviction or calculation, the town is born-again nice. Nearly extinct this summer are the killer thrillers, with their stark violence, sleazy sex, punk vocabulary -- and R ratings. Taking their place is the children's film, in which kids and grownups take reassuring life lessons. At heart these PG movies are After School Specials for the kids, and after-work seminars for dads. It's Father's Day all summer, and the Kidding of America all year long...
...Order, the shadowy British syntho-dance band, has always reveled in its contradictions. By melding the nihilistic mettle of punk with microchip magic and a populist disco beat, it has sold millions of records without losing its elitist mystique. Progressive dance-floor hits like 1983's Blue Monday made it possible to be cool while working up a sweat and anticipated the techno- industrial revolution, paving the way for groundbreaking groups such as Happy Mondays and Jesus Jones...