Word: throbbing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Alice in Chains' last wish would be to have their listeners believe that they do have any agenda more intellectualized than making the blood swish back and forth in your head as your body conforms to the primal throb of their beat. Maybe that's why the instrumental content of their songs is so good...
...skill by Douglas Sirk: All That Heaven Allows, with young Rock Hudson and middle-aged Jane Wyman daring a love that flouts convention; and Imitation of Life, in which wannabe white woman Susan Kohner throws herself on her black mother's coffin and sobs out her remorse to the throb of a Mahalia Jackson spiritual. Jungle Fever is no less brazen -- or assured. A righteous man shoots his deranged son, and the man's wife unleashes a scream that blends with the gospel wail of . . . Mahalia Jackson. Here Jungle Fever ascends fearlessly into the delirium of high Hollywood melodrama...
Raymond Belknap, 18, was excited about the Christmas present he was giving his best friend, James Vance, 20: a heavy-metal rock record by the British band Judas Priest. For five hours the young men listened to the raucous, apocalyptic throb of the music while they smoked marijuana and split a dozen beers. Violent fantasies were nothing new to either of them. Vance had choked his mother on one occasion and hit her with a hammer on another; Belknap had stolen money and a van and exposed himself to women; both talked of leaving their hometown of Sparks...
WORLD: After the giddy celebrations of freedom, the dull throb of the hangover...