Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...moment. It was loud, adventurous, untutored and self- destructive. Something may have been kindled that night, but it took 18 months to work it into a flame. Now the Pogues burn reckless and bright, working weird wonders on old Irish airs, giving errant folk melodies a strong bracing of rock. The new Pogues album has the kind of title that makes a sucker out of anyone who doesn't know the band; Peace and Love is full of spunk and sass, unreconstructed punk attitude hiding a hard social conscience. Chits will no longer be tossed...
...pushing things a bit far. But opera is one of our secret desires." Unlike British soldiers on a pub crawl, opera fans have been known to throw objects somewhat heftier than chits. But after nearly a decade, the Pogues still dote on stirring things up. The best rock comes right from the firing line, and the very best from bands, like the Pogues, that keep on shooting back...
Full of spunk and sass, the Pogues, a loud and adventurous punk band, are electrifying folk music with a heady lash of hard rock...
Each random death--John Belushi's, Andy Warhol's, Rock Hudson's--is tied to the generation's mental state and imbued with cultural and sociological significance. Belushi's taught the generation of the danger of drugs, Hudson's of the need to come together to fight AIDS. Previously, the deaths of '60s heros (the Kennedys and Martin Luther King) made the generation cynical...
Friedman's ability to draw the reader into his world is epitomized by his description of a stone-throwing attack by a Palestinian on his family's car. You feel the rock hit the windshield, you see the determined, unemotional look on the stone-thrower's face and you understand the reactions of the scared wife and two young children facing a shattered windshield...