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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Writer Chris Byron makes the oil companies sound like a charity group. He justifies their greed by informing us that "surely nobody knows how to find the crude better than oilmen do." Does this justify future windfall profits at the expense of the American public? Business practices, like oil, should be refined, not crude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 28, 1979 | 5/28/1979 | See Source »

...Records are nothing more than musical reproductions of a performer's inspiration. The more you paid for your stereo, the more you should believe in Rockefeller's innovation. Does it matter if you copy onto plastic or canvas? Millions of dollars are spent annually trying to achieve the perfect sound. Nelson Rockefeller tried to achieve the perfect art reproduction--did he really deserve the abuse...

Author: By Michael Stein, | Title: Rockefeller and His Clones | 5/25/1979 | See Source »

...principal figures in New York's vanguard rock underground," and liberally praising their records. Arista Records chose to release both new albums at the same time, helping link the two in the public mind. But then, to the rest of the country all musicians that emerge from New York sound the same, right...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Notes from Underground? | 5/23/1979 | See Source »

...rest of Wave, Smith has dropped the rock and roll as well, in spirit if not literally. By calling in California drug commando Todd Rundgren to produce music, she must have known what she would get-thick, homogenized sound with all the bite smoothed out. Wave, Smith has dropped the rock and roll as well, in spirit if not literally. By calling in California drug commando Todd Rundgren to produce music, she must have know what she would get-thick, homogenized sound with all the bite smoothed out. Wave is Smith's wimpiest yet. In a steady decline from...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Notes from Underground? | 5/23/1979 | See Source »

Reed's replacement for the Velvet Underground sound is a mixture of electronically synthesized guitar and bass, a traditional wind and brass section, and a technique called "stereo binaural sound"-which has something to do with the placement of microphones and leads to a thick, atmospheric recording best listened to with headphones. The sound is unmistakeable and very pleasing, and so far Reed has been able to write songs that take full advantage fo it. On "I Want to Boogie With You," Don Cherry's trumpet and Marty Fogel's sax thicken the soup of a repeated chord sequence...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Notes from Underground? | 5/23/1979 | See Source »

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