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Investment banking. The phrase conjured up images of the roaring `80s, "Bonfire of the Vanities," Michael Douglas with his hair slicked back in "Wall Street." All I knew was that investment bankers bought and sold things and made obscene amounts of money doing it. Who could ask for anything more...
During the '80s, when the Red Menace was very close to the hearts of Reagan voters, tallies of nuclear warheads, sea fleets, air forces and tanks made the pages of national newspapers almost every month. Superpower summits were tense affairs; everyone had seen the images of NATO and Soviet infantry lining up on both sides of Poland in mock World War III scenarios...
...minutes were soon up; by the end of the '80s, M. Loaf was coaching kids' baseball in Connecticut. Meanwhile, Steinman worked on several off- Broadway musicals and created some wondrously pretentious, infectious numbers for Bonnie Tyler (Total Eclipse of the Heart) and the film Streets of Fire. If the Druids had needed jingles for their oak-grove revelries, Steinman would have been the man to write them. But his songs needed Meat Loaf's urgency to lift their rude majesty to Ouch over High C. So the old colleagues reunited for Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell...
This time Robocop (played with cool brilliance by Robert John Burke, trust me) is back on duty to defend the city of Detroit against mid-'80s Japanese robo-ninjas and federal government agents who are selling the city to the Japanese businessmen. Tasteful...
CHRIS KNOX Meat CD (Communion) The reissues just don't let up: this week, Chris Knox, who's spent the last decadeplus in his native New Zealand as half of Tall Dwarfs, the cruelest-minded, most inventive, funniest, and possibly the most interesting duo on the 80s-90s global rockscape. (Before that, Knox fronted NZ's premier punk bands, the Enemy and Toy Love.) Meat contains most of his two solo albums, Seizure and Croaker--solo records in the literal sense, since there's no backing band and no studio musicians. Instead, it's Chris Knox singing, playing his loud...