Word: punks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...world's biggest self-promoters, punk rocker COURTNEY LOVE and Brit documentarian Nick Broomfield, aren't getting along. Broomfield's new movie, Kurt and Courtney, which examines and rejects allegations that Love was complicit in her husband's death, has been cut from the Sundance Film Festival because of a legal threat over music rights. Says Broomfield: "The person I was most frightened of making a film about is Margaret Thatcher. I think Courtney Love is pretty small fry in comparison." On Saturday Broomfield said there were absolutely no plans to screen his film...
...good thing. The massively eclectic Everything is Wrong, moving easily from reggae chants to diva vocals to galloping jungle, came out when everyone was looking for Pearl Jam derivatives. Animal Rights, Moby's follow up, disappointed newly techno-hungry critics by being an almost frightening marriage of ambient and punk. While releasing excellent remixes of Brian Eno, Jam and Spoon and Orbital, he's been sneered for remixing Ozzy Ozbourne, Soundgarden and Metallica. Moby plays on all levels and nowhere is this more apparent than in his live shows...
...Moby's mind, though, nothing mixes so well with the ecstasy culture as punk. As he plunged into "That's When I Reach For My Revolver," the dancers began to pogo. While an odd mix, it worked; the following Bond theme progressed from speed metal to pounding funked-up house. Not content with this excursion into rock, Moby decided that the show needed a guitar solo, and noodled for a couple of minutes. The crowd was variously amused and disgusted; some were upset that they'd been tricked into watching Def Leppard-style musical onanism. The pounding techno soon resumed...
From a technical stance, one could argue the merits of the show. Moby really made very little musical contribution to the music; except for the punk intervals, much of the music came from pre-recorded DATs, which the musicians played over. Technical skill, however, is not how the virtue of Moby's music should be judged. Moby operates on a more directly emotional level. His goal is simply to induce euphoria, which he does with ease by putting a very human spin on the music...
Ecstasy and punk, it turns out, mix surprisingly well...