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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While it sometimes feels as if the Whigs are telling the same story on each tune-that of a man out of control and unable to function in a relationship-the tunes themselves are good solid rock. Nothing on this album will blow any listeners away, but most will find the Afghan Whigs a comfortable alternative to more highly touted but less interesting mainstream rock. For the grunge fan tired of Pearl Jam, it might be worth it to give the Whigs a whirl...

Author: By James B. Loeffler, | Title: Boy Meets Girl, Again | 12/2/1993 | See Source »

That testimonial is echoed by many young fans in 241 million households planet-wide who tune in for the music and stay to watch "Free Your Mind" news features, interspersed between MTV'S main fodder of music videos and celebrity interviews. Often derided as a vapid, immature channel for rap-and- rock vidkids, MTV tackles serious problems in segments that range from three minutes to theme weekends. Promising viewers "free your mind and the rest will follow," the five international affiliates -- MTV Brasil, Asia, Japan, Europe and Latino -- cover issues like safe sex and the environment, once deemed too sensitive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coming Now to a Kid Near You | 11/29/1993 | See Source »

...Paramount's chief argued that Time's attempt to merge with Warner was really a sale, so he should legally be free to horn in. With his own merger, the tune changed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I've Looked At Huge Media Mergers From Both Sides Now ... | 11/29/1993 | See Source »

...economist, who completed a trip through China last month: "The answer to the question of how to go about getting a free- market system is very straightforward. You get the government out of the way and privatize, privatize, privatize. The Chinese have the words, but do they know the tune?" The latest reforms signal that they do know the score. They are just not quite willing to play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Slipping Out of Zhu's Squeeze | 11/29/1993 | See Source »

Maybe it's just just me; maybe lots of heterosexuals born since World War II really do love musicals. But I have never knowingly hummed a show tune. I take it only on faith that Rodgers and Hammerstein were geniuses. Ethel Merman's voice was powerful, sure, and powerfully annoying. Each new Andrew Lloyd Webber musical seems like an ice show putting on airs, Siegfried and Roy with bathos. To a majority of people under 50, I'm convinced, the formal conceit of musicals (a so-so play during which the actors inexplicably sing their hearts out every 10 minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spectator Cartoons Yes, Humans No | 11/22/1993 | See Source »

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