University of Arkansas Monticello - Boll Weevil Yearbook (Monticello, AR)

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Modern music, viewed as a whole, has migrated somewhat from the traditionally disco or rock sounds. Many new bands have successfully created a hybrid sound with elements from both types of music. Acts that were once strictly identified as purely rock or disco have also broadened their musical ett J RM feces oF EiaHt ¢ DESPA 4G CRIC CLAPTON -APTON AT HIS BEST oe IMAGES HEATWI.VE pas 3870 4905 °F 8F 24-3503 | RONNIE MILSAP nea AHS1.3346 PS8-706 boundaries. Donna Summers and Led Zepplin are two such acts. Donna Summers has big sales with the disco crowd, while Led Zeppelin holds an equivalent post with rock. Zeppelin, who with the Stones can be considered the greatest remaining rock band from the early seventies, produced a fresh new sound with “In Through The Out Door,” an instant hit. By the same token, Donna Summers has ‘emerged as an en tertainer. BT-4724 iy SLO ISNA aN A ai ee mim ee a 2 meer — = evds Keuticd? EREO. PINK FLOYD Her new music reveals a new depth, a maturation, that is punctuated by her characteristic (and also very profitable) disco interludes. One of the most perplexing development of the late seventies was punk rock. In its empirical form, punk rock is the expression of basic emotions. Anger, love, fear, hate (particularly — most real punks are highly abusive) top the list of favorites. Due to its overwhelming grass-roots side effect, true punk rock is a model of simplicity. It is decidely not human music. Punk rock is hopefully dead, but a few of its grooms remain along with a Today’s variety of music is so varied it runs from one end of the spectrum to the other, with every thing from rock and roll to easy listening to the blues. 64 Student Life .

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a = mcr © © @ C) PMONC Ltt Left: With a wide array of music available, listening equipment has expanded and improved. Sound quality has advanc ed and distortion has virtually disap- peared. Above: Sound equipment comes in all shapes and sizes. AM FM stereos, tape players, cassettes, and record players are all available in a myriad of different styles. spectacle of bands and performers who were once considered ‘punk’ and have now gotten caught up in a movement called ‘New Wave.’ No one has bothered to establish a definite transition point between punk and new wave. Many people believe that the only change is that the nomer ‘punk’ became obsolete. Blondie, The Cars, The Knack and virtually all of the emerging rock bands have elements of old rock and this so called new wave. Has anyone else gotten Linda Ronstadt and Billy into this business of change? Joel both released albums this year which include a definite modernization of sound, hers, ‘‘Mad Love”’ and his, ‘‘Glass Houses.”’ Other up-and-comers in the new revitalization of modern music: Toto with “Hydra” and the hit “99”; new albums by Heart; the touted “‘Tusk”’ experiment by Fleetwood Mac (many think the marching band a bit beneath Mac’s level); and Pink Floyd with a marginal effort in its release of ‘“‘The Wall,’ an instant hit with FM-rock. Herb Alpert (that’s the same guy on your parents’ Tijuana Brass albums) had a new album with quite a bit of AM FM airplay, and what jazz could be a better highlight of the Olympic closing ceremonies at Lake Placid than that of Chuck Mangione? Once, the opinion was the music could really proceed no farther from soul or disco or rock but that speculation has been almost unanimously tossed out the window. Music is becoming better all of the time. Look out for the eighties. Student Life 65