Word: sound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...show deviated in any significant way from the live album, Alchemy, recorded two years ago, except that the band had nine more songs from which to choose. Because Knopfler strives for perfection in the studio--and because he succeeds half the time--he tries to make his live songs sound like very loud copies of the songs on record--which he succeeds at almost all the time. Come on, Mark, this is America. We want a cover...
...Carringer, an associate professor of English and cinema studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, hardly mentions the actors in Citizen Kane, much less what the film means or represents, but he is exhaustive in his analyses of the art direction, the photography, the special effects, the sound track...
...honeycomb of debris. Rescuers swarmed over the wreckage. Now and then the demand came for absolute silence as the searchers listened for survivors. Nearly seven days after the quake, wavering cries were heard on what had been the fifth floor. A U.S.-Mexican team of miners tunneled toward the sound--and eventually reached the target...
...What is new, however, is the sound of some of the world's best musicians putting it straight on the line. David Ruffin of the Temptations and Browne sing about "relocation to phony homelands." Cliff and Hall remember "people are dying and giving up hope," and Darlene Love jumps in with "This quiet diplomacy ain't nothing but a joke." The clincher comes with the hard challenge of Bruce Springsteen's voice, which should be some strong indication of rock's new course. Anyone ever hear Elvis Presley sing a song about Martin Luther King Jr.? On Sun City...
...Message songs," says Hancock, "get a little boring. You begin to sound like missionaries. With Sun City, though, you get caught in the rhythms." The rhythms are new, but in fact this vocal conscience comes out of a long tradition. There were activist antecedents in the alternative culture of the '60s, but those were selfabsorbed and, as both Browne and Van Zandt point out, were intermingled with the drug culture. Perhaps inspired by such punk guerrilla bands as Britain's Clash and the Sex Pistols in the late '70s, rock has buried higher consciousness under high conscience...