Further down the list, old-timers like Dylan, the Stones and Lou Reed hit new highs Public Enemy and Run-D.M.C. The first 10 entries here span the Clash’s polyglot punk, Prince’s crossover funkadelica, Afro-bop from Talking Heads and Paul Simon and hymns of innocence and experience by U2 and Tracy Chapman. And rap transformed the face - and voice - of popular music. Punks got older and more articulate in their frustration and rage, while many veteran artists responded to that movement’s challenge with their most vital work in years. The following survey of the 100 best albums of the Eighties, as selected by the editors of Rolling Stone, shows that the music and the values it stands for have been richer for the struggle. Musicians and audiences alike have struggled to come to terms with rock’s parameters and possibilities, its emotional resonance and often dormant social consciousness. But if the past 10 years haven’t exactly been the stuff of revolution, they have been a critical time of re-assessment and reconstruction. In comparison, the Eighties have been the decade of, among other things, synth pop, Michael Jackson, the compact disc, Sixties reunion tours, the Beastie Boys and a lot more heavy metal. The Seventies gave rise to David Bowie, Bruce Springsteen, heavy metal, punk and New Wave. The Sixties were rocked by Beatlemania, Motown, Phil Spector, psychedelia and Bob Dylan. The Fifties witnessed nothing less than the birth of the music. Poole, a bright human coin – on his way to the bank.īank clerk Hector Poole develops telepathic powers after tossing a coin to a newspaper vendor that miraculously stands on its edge.This has been the first rock & roll decade without revolution, or true revolutionaries, to call its own. But in one freakish chance in a million, it’ll land on its edge. What are the odds? Half the time it will come up heads, half the time tails. This show was written by Rod Serling and George Clayton Johnson It really built my ego and made me feel worthwhile. It wasn’t like, Tm Rod Serling and this is one of the flunkies on the set, it was more like, Look, here’s the man who wrote this absolutely wizard thing that were making right now. And his attitude toward me was one of great respect. George Clayton Johnson: Rod came through with a couple of people, visitors that he had brought on, and he saw me and Lola (wife) and he stopped to introduce us to these people. The title comes from the old English expression “A penny of your thoughts” which dates back to John Heywood’s compilation of proverbs “A Dialogue Containing the Number in Effect of all the Proverbs in the English Tongue.” The episode is charming and funny, and it does have a point…that people do things without thinking about them and think things without having the slightest intention of doing them. This was the first of George Clayton Johnsons four Twilight Zone scripts and was his lightest story, but the easy tone doesn’t detract from it. One of two consecutive Twilight Zone episodes to star a future Bewitched regular, the previous episode The Invaders starred Agnes Moorehead. The 2000 movie What Women Want is related to this episode. This one is a comedic episode where everything goes right. If you want to see where we are… HERE is a list of the episodes.
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