Word: rocks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...abundant fall for rock. Springsteen and Michael Jackson already, the first solo effort by the Band's Robbie Robertson and another album of guitar magic by Ry Cooder due within a month. The momentum does not stop with the big names, however. Some of the best music around is coming up from below superstar level...
...Brandos, on their Honor Among Thieves (Relativity), sing bold, head-on rock, Creedence Clearwater-style. Tunes like Gettysburg and Hard Luck Runner are of a type that has lately been called, somewhat pejoratively, "roots rock," but a band like the Brandos gives ample evidence that those roots run deep and still offer great nourishment...
Women's disappointment in the inability of men to communicate is perhaps the most universal of Hite's themes. "This is the No. 1 complaint of women," says Atlanta-based Writer Maxine Rock, whose 1986 book, The Marriage Map, chronicled the stages of matrimony. Psychiatrist Brian Doyle at Georgetown University notes that his male patients "often complain that they are not good at expressing their feelings...
...sheen, but it is never polished. It is as if Springsteen had buffed up a brand-new car with a sandpaper chamois. Using only simple instrumentation, with an occasional synthesizer riff or guitar blitz, Springsteen has created a modern surrogate for the resonant mystery on old blues and early rock records. This makes Tunnel of Love close kin to his 1982 solo effort, Nebraska, which was meant to sound homemade. Tunnel of Love takes that approach even further, into the mythic heart of American music and some slat-roof recording studio -- maybe on a prairie, maybe near a delta -- where...
Like Motown was at the time, the Minneapolis Sound (not to be mistaken with alternative rock's Minneapolis Sound of the Replacements and Husker Du, among others) was new and fresh. Powerful bass, a driving funk beat, suggestive lyrics and occasional guitar riffs propelled the Sound to the top with fans and critics both, a rare feat...