
در
زمینه موسیقی
Rock
می توان از
ZZ Top و
Bon Jovi
یاد کرد. بروس اسپرینگ استین هم از انزوا در آمده بود و تور "زاده آمریکا"
را شروع کرده بود. بروس در آن زمان در اجرای آلبوم "رقص در تاریکی" با یک
دختر دبیرستانی رقصید. این دختر امروز همان هنرپیشه معروف کورتنی کاکس است.
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<“History Lesson Part
II ,“by the Minutemen, on Double Nickies, did something similar with its
thumbnail history of punk rock:
Mr.
Narrator this is Bob Dylan to me.” Likewise there were the Replacements
and R.E.M. and, in England, the Smiths, who seemed to be observing
something much closer to the truth, a world of disappointment,
frustration and romantic failure. Stateside, there was also the
beginning of hip-hop empowerment, in the breakout rock/rap crossover of
Run D.M.C., whose debut album was the first rap album to go gold. And
there was arena rock, too, the inevitable arena rock of summer. There
was John Cougar Mellencamp, soon to drop the Cougar altogether, and
there was ZZ Top, and Bon Jovi. And there was
Bruce Springsteen coming
back from the wilderness, from the austerities of Nebraska, and going
out on the road to sing the oft-misinterpreted title song from Born in
the U.S.A. Though the first single from Springsteen’s album was “Dancing
in the Dark,” an inoffensive throwaway in
which, during the video—that new method of multinational record
pimping—the singer danced with some adorable high-school girl (who
turned out to be Courteney Cox), the album contained much more ambitious
songs, like the gloomy, beautiful ode to unrequited longing “I’m on
Fire” and, of course,
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