Word: tunes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They were not really epiphanies. The way he tells it, Marcus Roberts' decisive moments of musical inspiration -- those times when you hear a tune and your whole life changes -- were more like . . . bumps. No epic moments. Just a few small occasions of collision...
...Miltie and the Great One. Their names were Pinky, Blinky, Inky and Clyde, but most people knew them simply as the squat, ghostlike monsters who scurried around a maze trying to gobble you up in the most popular video game of all time, Pac-Man. Remember the tinkly computer tune that signaled the start of each game? The "power pellets" that changed the monsters' color to blue and turned the chasers into the chased? The animated "half-time show" that appeared after two mazes were completed (and the even better one -- "They Meet" -- in the sprightly sequel game...
...MANIACS: BLIND MAN'S ZOO (Elektra). Love songs like petitions, songs of conscience that come straight from the heart. This is a band with folkie inclinations, rock grit and a graceful way with a cry of pain. Poison in the Well, an unfortunately timely tune about environmental pollution, ought to be piped into the Exxon boardroom...
...policy began after police filed charges against a Dallas branch of the record-store chain for selling harmful material to a minor. The store sold to a 13-year-old boy a rap album containing a graphic tune about a grotesque sex act. Though the charges were eventually dropped by a grand jury, the chain decided to be more prudent about prurience. "We feel we have an obligation to the customers and the communities we are in to police our sales," says Walter McNeer, an executive vice president at Western Merchandisers. "We do not want to be censors...
...MANIACS: BLIND MAN'S ZOO (Elektra). Love songs like petitions, songs of conscience that come straight from the heart. This is a band with folkie inclinations and rock grit, and a graceful way with a cry of pain: Poison in the Well, an unfortunately timely tune about environmental pollution, ought to be piped in to the Exxon boardroom...