Word: punks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...everything from hippies to punk rockers to police officers to mentally challenged people," Marshall says, jerking his thumb to a buddy standing against the wall...
...infinitely better U.K surf version featured in Christian Slater's teen romp Pump up the Volume) and many others better left unsaid. Only until midway through this composium of classic cuts does anything of real quality appear. This unfortunate CD makes the Pixies out to be a punk band big on dissonance who also dabble in bubble gum radio pop from album to album. Even some of the better songs on this CD have been curiously replaced with slowed down versions that sound like a cut from a Pixies reunion concert 25 years from now. "Gigantic" has Kim Deal wailing...
...love that recalls the music of Bob Marley, and "I Still Love You," a synthesis of the two-tone ska beat with vocals reminiscent of the ageless classic songs that fortunately still flourish today on oldies radio stations. Throughout Redlight, the Slackers prove their mettle. Ska music, much like punk music, is easy to play but very difficult to make original. With this release, the Slackers unveil a new dimension in ska music that will hopefully spark greater recognition and more widespread touring for the septet...
...crests the Tibetan wave, building roughly since the Dalai Lama's 1989 Nobel Peace Prize. Richard Gere pioneered the full religiopolitical embrace years ago, but he may have found a successor in Adam Yauch, 33, singer for the punk-rap group the Beastie Boys. Not only has Yauch guided his famously irreverent band into songs like Bodhisattva Oath; he is also primary architect of two Tibetan Freedom Concert benefits that became instant touchstones for a Gen X phenomenon quickly dubbed Tibet Chic. Like the new movies, the concerts' first concern was political but they too opened with that signature chanting...
Yauch himself is remarkably slight and soft-spoken, given the aggressiveness of his group's punk-rap music but then since he began practicing Tibetan Buddhism, the group spits into the crowd a lot less. Yauch, brought up secularly by a Jewish father and Catholic mother, first meditated after attending teachings by the Dalai Lama in India in 1992. "It felt logical to me," he explains. "Real, not hokey." He spends anywhere from 20 minutes to two hours a day in cross-legged contemplation. Back braced against the wall--a flaw in technique, he'll admit--he repeats short prayers...