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Anachronistic? Defiantly. The blood on these guitars is Chuck Berry red. The production reverbs with the heavenly choirs, sleigh bells and mausoleum echoes of Phil Spector's wailing Wall of Sound. The lyric lines are long and chatty, with more pomp to the bomp. Bat II is the '50s, '60s and '70s, packed in steel and wrapped in Mylar. Or go back even further. Meat Loaf is not quite Jussi Bjorling, and Steinman ain't no Wagner, but in rock terms Bat Out of Hell II is a Gotterdammerung you can dance...
Cohen practically purrs here. He sings smoothly, if not prettily, and his writing has a measure of spareness that is new to it. The sound may be odd, as suprising as his outing with the amok Phil Spector on 1977's perplexing Death of a Ladies' Man. But it suits and insinuates. And the writing still has the same carbolic kick...
...Philip Glass met Phil Spector . . . well, they'd probably just stare at each other. But it's conceivable that the composer and the pop mogul might collaborate on a 73-minute 12-second postmodern song cycle you could dance or dream to. That's the symphonic rock album Moodfood, by the British duo MOODSWINGS (percussionist J.F.T. Hood and producer Grant Showbiz). The set punctuates its disco-liturgical luxuriance with ethereal vocals by Chrissie Hynde and a pulsar guitar solo by Jeff Beck. Mixing rap and classical and everything in between -- and then remixing it to suggest a Top 40 radio...
...early '60s, between Elvis and the Beatles, two corporate names ruled rock 'n' roll: Spector and Scepter. Phil Spector's over-the-Top-40 sound has often been memorialized; now THE SCEPTER RECORDS STORY is related in a 65-song set on three CDs. Owned by Florence Greenberg, a New Jersey mom, the diskery made its rep with girl groups (the Shirelles) and treble rousers (the Isley Brothers, the Kingsmen). It then officiated at the marriage of gospel and pop, with Dionne Warwick selling peerless Burt Bacharach ballads. The set includes many savory hits and some obscure gems: Bacharach...
This commonsense approach is already working for small North Carolina companies. Under a fast track that U.S. bankruptcy Judge A. Thomas Small installed in 1987, firms file their reorganization plans within 90 days and average just six months in court. Spector Molding, a $3 million plastics company, made an even quicker getaway; it was in and out of Small's court in less than two months. "Cases like this are why the code was written," says Trawick Stubbs, the firm's attorney. "Congress has said, and I agree, that it's preferable to have reorganization and rehabilitation rather than liquidation...