Word: punks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...small firms scrimp every way possible. For example, they avoid long, self-indulgent recording sessions. Says Folk Singer John Stewart: "Before I step into the studio, I know every note I'm going to play." Husker Du, a trio on California's SST label, recorded a two-disk punk masterpiece in just 45 hours. Artists on small labels also go without such freebies as drinks and buffets, which have become staples at some music firms. Refreshments at Twin/ Tone Records in Minneapolis, for example, are limited to an occasional twelve- pack of beer...
...drive the prom queen to distraction. The Breakfast Club, the new film from the writer-director of Sixteen Candles, John Hughes, is an even odder beguilement. A nine-hour Saturday detention class is called for five balky students: a jock (Emilio Estevez), a grind (Anthony Michael Hall), a punk (Judd Nelson), a deb (Molly Ringwald) and a feral cutie (Ally Sheedy) who eats Cap'n Crunch sandwiches and comports herself like a baby Maoist from May '68. They sit around and rank one another. They strike out, then strike bargains, then strike sparks of affection. By the end they...
...imaginative use of technology: with a device called a Vocoder, she can speak and sing in chords. Anderson's unsettling imagery and aggressively minimalist music hardly make for relaxing listening, but United States is a landmark in the art of the '80s, a guided tour through a post-punk apocalypse led by an innocent at home whose sense of the ironic is the only sure road...
Leonard excels at this sort of corner-of-the-mouth satire. His research sometimes sticks out, but he has a perfect ear for punk talk, a hungry eye for sleaze and an eerie ability to get inside empty heads: "This ocean was different, the tourist believed, than the ocean up in New Jersey. Though it must be the same water because the oceans were all connected and the water would get different places." Madame Bovary on the boardwalk could not have said it better...
David Byrne is a riveting physical and emotional presence--a cult movie star who radiates otherworldly danger. Occupying the center of this glossy rock- concert film as leader of the avant-punk band Talking Heads, Byrne comes across as both stage-frightened and spellbinding. The dramatic contours of his gaunt face seek the shadows, where his most pounding, powerful songs (Psycho Killer, Burning Down the House) take form. The other band members, who appear to have been born on this planet, are along to provide white noise for the Showman from Outer Space as he surfaces in a big white...