Word: tape
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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GUIDED BY VOICES Vampire on Titus CD/LP (Scat) It's tempting to write that GBV has had "eight years to perfect their craft," but the truth is that they've been great from the start. The basic GBV sound is 1967 British pop filtered through basement-tape-recorder grime, and within its confines they're the best, and the most versatile, there is. Each of their seven albums includes vocal harmonies from Revolverera Beatles, scattered outbreaks of pure punk, flat despair, soaring hopes, noises like ovens exploding (immediately followed by familiar hooks), wisps of pot smoke over seaswell chords...
Marshalling support for a decisive solution to the Haiti crisis will not be easy in the current atmosphere. Nor will cutting through the U.N. red tape to reform the decision-making be simple...
...have the MLB Productions tape of that 1991 Classic, what is perhaps the greatest World Series of them all, and it never fails to give me chills. What is so remarkable about the series, for me, is the collective naivete of the city of Atlanta--we had never sniffed at a world championship of any kind...
...gone down by the time we had emerged from the Fort McHenry Tunnel near downtown Baltimore. The tape had finished; now came the inevitable lull as each of us mulled over our thoughts and wondered if we had any deep enough to kick off a conversation...
...also had the perfect soundtrack for our reminiscing: the Seventies. We had Saturday Night Fever (mine) and the soundtrack to "Reservoir Dogs" (also mine). We had Tarek's Tracy Chapman. We had Amanda's "mushy tape," the stuff our high-school dances were made of. Most alarmingly, we had Sean's prized cassette of Swedish supergroup ABBA's Voulez-Vous...