Word: singer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cultural emulation is All Fools Day by one of Australia's most popular underground bands, the Saints. Although the Saints hail from down under, their latest musical effort would rather roam the green hills of a certain Northern land--preferably by the side of Van Morrison, Ireland's greatest singer...
...tracks here are those on which pop and punk co-exist as equal partners. "I Don't Wanna" has the most easily discernable melody of any of the songs, carried by lead singer Evan Dando and a nifty bass line. The guitars on "I Don't Wanna" are used more for texture than anything else, and the whole conglomeration reminds you of Moving Targets' approach...
...wonders, though, if these awards are any more than what singer Aimee Mann called "patting each other on the back," or if the black lucite plaques the winners received will mean national attention for them or for the hundreds of struggling bands whom the Awards overlooked. If the Boston Music Awards does become a permanent annual event, the awards ought to mean something. The least they can do is give them a good nickname, say "the Bommies", or "the Hubbies...
...nationality known comic Sinbad, who has appeared on Star Search and The Cosby Show, will host the competition. A panel of celebrities, including Eric Bloom, lead singer of the Blue Oyster Cult, will judge the four college bands...
Isaac Bashevis Singer tells the story of an aged and poor Jewish shoemaker who arrives in America to join his now affluent sons. Despite his sons` generosity and care, the old man is bewildered by the strangeness of their world. He cannot connect the cosmopolitan Americans he sees before him with the young boys he once trained to make shoes by hand in their cottage home...