Word: tavern
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...TITLE of the second U.S. release by Trio, a new German rock group, sums up the entire album. Trio and Error is a sampling of musical styles ranging from European tavern songs through fifties rock 'n' roll up to '80s power riffing and synthopop. On the surface (which counts for a lot with most Europop bands like Trio,) Trio and Error is an enjoyable album with a lot of catchy melodies, some witty choruses, and a spare, deadpan sound. However, this album works only on that surface level, because Trio never tries to capture the depth of feeling or soul...
...album, Trio attempts to integrate a wide variety of rock styles into their deadpan, minimalist sound; and here their thinness really shows through. In fact, the farther Trio delves into the past, the more disastrous the results. On "Tooralooralooraloo--Is it Old &Is it New," they aim for a tavern European folk ballad, and end up sounding like Perry Como. In fact, this song is so pathetically and limply delivered that it can't even be savored as good camp. "Drei Mann in doppelbett," on the other hand, links a pub chant with a synthopop rhythm with slightly more successful...
...From tavern music, Trio then moves onto early fifties rock with a deadpan cover of "Tutti Frutti." Unfortunately, what Trio (as well as other synthopop groups) doesn't understand is that by taking the ragged, rough-shorn mania out of early rock 'n'foll, they take out its heart (and its greatness). Covers like "Tutti Frutti" don't reinterpret the originals; they lobotomise them. Trio fares a little better with "Ich Lieb den Rock'n' Roll" because it's a little faster paced, although the group should learn that power riffing does not equal energy...
...Boston Ballet is currently celebrating its 20th anniversary season with just such a project--the revival of a revolutionary piece of dance and music called Carmina Burana. The work is a collection of poems celebrating spring, the bawdiness of tavern life and the complications of love, probably written by students, scholars and monks who roamed Western Europe in the 11th and 12th centuries. Carl Orff, a German composer, set the poems to music in 1937 and the score now includes choral and solo singing in Latin, German and French...
...Last March, a 21-year-old mother of two walked into Big Dan's tavern in New Bedford, Mass., to buy a pack of cigarettes. A man in the bar threw her to the floor, stripped her and hoisted her onto a pool table, where he and three companions took turns raping, sodomizing and beating the woman. Other patrons cheered the rapists on, screaming...