Word: u2
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...were flat last year, and the industry could use a megahit. But while music-industry suits may be understandably breathless about Fairweather Johnson's impending release, not everyone is panting. Now that Cracked Rear View has sold more copies in the U.S. than any single album by Pearl Jam, U2, the Rolling Stones and even the Beatles, the Hootie backlash has begun. A page surfaced on the Internet recently calling for readers to join PAHB--Peoples Against Hootie & the Blowfish. This week the New York Times dismissed Rucker as rock's "reigning crybaby," a reference to his emotive lyrics. Some...
MUSIC . . . NEW MOON DAUGHTER: On jazz singer Cassandra Wilson's latest CD, Wilson covers a broad musical spectrum with jazz versions of songs by U2, Neil Young, The Monkees. "The album marks a new high point for the 40-year-old Wilson, who over the past two decades has become America's most important and daring jazz vocalist," says TIME's Christopher John Farley. "Her voice has the heavy, rolling darkness of a storm cloud, but Wilson isn't given to flashy lightning vocals. She finds emotion in restraint -- her voice murmurs low like distant thunder, or strikes a brief...
...play a fully convincing makeover. Pop culture, it complains, forces us to manufacture ourselves in the stylized image of our own mass-produced fantasies. The blatant phoniness of this predigested psychobabble is underscored by the soundtrack (imagine--a play with a soundtrack!), which features such luminaries as Sting, U2, Live, and Counting Crows. Despite its occasional flashes of loveliness, "Savage Love" limps along ponderously, bloated by the ostentation of the same culture that it attempts to parody--and, ultimately, fails to escape...
...U2 singer BONO spent New Year's Eve in Sarajevo. The self-proclaimed "first tourist" to the city danced one night away with Bosnian Foreign Minister Muhamed Sacirbey, then joined locals for an impromptu show the next. "I can't understand why more of our colleagues have not come," said Bono. Maybe the war had something to do with...
...together collections of rock songs (some containing new songs, others merely groups of oldies). They're a smart example of marketing synergy: the movie helps sell the album; the album helps sell the movie. And it's working: the sound tracks for Batman Forever (with a hit single by U2) and Dangerous Minds (with one by rapper Coolio) have been among the summer's best sellers...