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ITT: /mu/ in 1983
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holy shit
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*moonwalks*
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>>127944719
>even Neil Young is putting out synthslop these days
We're so doomed, bros
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Down with Reagan and NATO warmongering! MX missiles out of Europe now! Peace, not nuclear Armaggedeon!
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It's official. Heavy Metal has gone mainstream.
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It's only six years until Taylor Swift is born. Enjoy it while it lasts.
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>>127944719
They’ve done it again, lads. AOTY. They’re selling out stadiums. Though, you wonder how they’re gonna top this tour. One more album and nobody can deny them as the band of the 80’s.
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>>127944854
KWAB
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ROMEO, LET'S GO
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Fuckin' right new heavy metal is different from old heavy metal. The new stuff is about five silly beats faster. And the "new" metal singers all sound free, white, and roughly twenty-one. C
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>>127944719
Fuck you, I like it
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>>127944719
NEW ALBUM WHEN?
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He really came into his own, commercially and artistically.
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>>127945097
Momentarily caught in legal limbo.
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>>127944957
we metalheads gotta fuckin crucify this sissy Christgau he's been talking shit on heavy metal for like 10 years now.
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Back around 1970, I played for Nick Koszlas, a Cal Arts colleague of distinctly Yurrupean music tastes, a couple of singles I thought instructive--"Brown Eyed Girl", "California Dreaming", "Neanderthal Man", that sort of thing. The one he flipped for was "I Wanna Be Your Dog." So if you think the sonic cover here proves that they're a rocker at heart, you have a real fine art critic on your side. The dull rock critic would also like to mention that the cover doesn't rock too good, either. But then again, neither did King Crimson a lot of the time. C-
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I don't get it.
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>>127945097
They're not even the same band that released Damaged at this point. Ginn turned into a weed smoking hippie metalfag and Rollins thinks being a HC vocalist means we want to hear his shitty open mic night poetry.
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>>127944957
ugh

>>127945186
HERE, HERE
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>>127945233
What a bunch of ugly kikes
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>>127944719
wow this new cyndi lauper album is great also did you hear about the thing that happened at fredbear's? some kid died after he got his head crushed by an animatronic.
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Is it prog?
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Gabriel bros get in here!
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FUCK YOU LARS ULRICH!
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>>127945186
metalheads aren't reading queer magazines like the fucking village voice
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>>127944719
i sure hope phil collin's drum sound in in the air tonight doesn't become too overused this decade
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>>127944719
A MERMAN I SHOULD TURN TO BE
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>>127945344
Go to bed, Dave.
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>>127944957
Wait a second...this make me think of something
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undercover kino
https://youtu.be/q0r6S4XJ84s
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>>127945483
this is a fun album
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You said it, the man's an utter cornball, but on this album I simply succumb to the stupid pleasures of his big fat rockcraft. Even though I know it isn't the "same old back beat" that keeps rock and roll alive, but rather musicians brave or bored enough to fuck with it, something same-old has me grunting with pleasure at that song every time I let down my guard. No guard required: "I Want a New Drug" (recreational), "Bad Is Bad" (bad), and "Walking on a Thin Line" (when are Vietnam Veterans Against the War putting together their compilation album?). B+
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>>127945408
Technically it didn't, because most gated reverb was artificial while Phil's was acoustic, and it is a distinctive sound from the common preset.
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>>127945541
Yes, Headhunters stand and be counted
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Those of you who truly hoped the jig was up this time can take comfort--this top ten album could be outselling Thriller or Flashdance or Pyromania. My suggestion is for Steve Perry to run as a moderate Republican from, say, Nebraska where his oratory would be well-received, and then, having shed his video-game interests, proceed to ram the tape tax though. D
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"I'm just a guy who likes to get drunk/I'm just a guy who likes to dress punk," Joey chants as side one fades away, incisively and affectionately locating the real audience he's brought into being after all these years of mythos and stabs in the dark. And despite one hopeless lyric (Dee Dee on Disneyland) and one dubious cover (token pure pop to balance off double-O soul remembrances of the Chambers Brothers and the Music Explosion), this is more worthy of an audience than anything they've done in the '80s. Not a mass audience, certainly not a great audience, maybe not even a cool one--just guys who have finally discovered a taste for the raw roar the Ramones invented (bigger now but no less tuneful) and are smart enough to know that when Joey goofs his way through the five syllables of "psy-che-del-i-cized" he's some singer. A-
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>>127945639
Who's that zesty Ramone in the middle?
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>>127945728
Ponder the aroma
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Best group
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This album displays all the wonted care Dylan has put into it, "License to Kill" being the only dud, musically speaking. Lyrically his disdain for the daughters of Satan has reached new peaks of exquisite detail--displaying neither hatred nor pity nor contempt, he approaches women with a solicitousness that's almost chilling, as if he knows what a self-serving scumbag he's being, if only subliminally. Nevertheless, this man has turned into a hateful crackpot between equating Jews with Zionism with the Likud, the muddled disquisition on international labor, and the ital al-Hassidim that inspires no less than three (!) superstitious attacks on space exploration. God only knows (and I use that phrase advisedly here) just how far he'll go if John Glenn becomes president. C
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>>127945880
I would downvote Neighborhood Bully too tbqh.
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The deadly European virus that has always been this band's curse here turns out to be their characteristic melodic device--an unresolved medieval fifth most often associated with monks in Hollywood movies. Other than that, their new album is hot rock-and-roll indeed--the Edge becomes a tuneful guitarist by the simple expedient of not solo-ing, and if Bono still has too many Gregorian moments his conviction carries the music. Anyway, I'll take his pacifist (if militant) Christianity ("The time has come/To claim the victory Jesus has won") over the secular humanism and Jah love so many rockers are going for these days. B
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Meanwhile in Japan
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As his head continues to expand, tricks that once seemed honorably functional begin to smack of expediency, with upwardly mobile cameos throwing his shortcomings into heavy relief. Teena Marie and the latter-day Tempts he could keep up with, but on this album Smokey Robinson shows up Rick's rank sentimentality, Billy Dee Williams his cornball cool, and Grandmaster Flash his roots of clay. And the redeeming social value of "P.I.M.P. the S.I.M.P." trips over his fashion sense--this is not a man who should criticize his peers for dressing funny. B-
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>>127945936
Already sick of these guys
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I own 9,200 Atari shares. I'll be a millionaire by this time next year, you just watch.
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>>127944779
t. Hoenecker
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RIP (finally)
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>>127946068
They were planning an '83 tour until Warner told them "wtf man? you can't tour without an album!" Pete started to work on one but couldn't come up with anything so he decided fuck this we're done. cya.
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>>127946072
Only pocket protector geeks play computer games, dude.
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What the fuck do people see in this bloated pile of murky shit? Granted, Mick Jagger does still slip into the vernacular specificity that other rock frontmen strive for and despite the wind tunnel production, Keith Richards remains the incorrigible genius-by-accident he is. Also guess what? Two songs contain political content, which I assume is supposed to fill me with gratitude. But guess what else? I'm such a churl that I'm only a sucker for good songs and these are as tiresome and witless and nasty as the rest. Their worst album. C
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>>127945936
back when they were still pure
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If Ronnie and Nancy are the only everybodies rockin' by name on the less than rousing title finale, then maybe what Neil means to say is that basic rockabilly isn't worth too much all by its lonesome. I agree, but expect the argument would be more convincing if Neil plus Ben Keith could match Brian Setzer chop for chop. The covers are redundant or worse, as are all but two of the originals. I hope Robert Gordon or somebody rescues "Kinda Fonda Wanda." And I hope Neil realizes that for all the horrible truth of "Payola Blues," nobody's three thou's gonna get this on top forty. Run time: 24:55. List price: $8.95. C+
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>>127946198
>album done purely as a middle finger to Dave Geffen
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In case you bought the con, disco never died--just reverted to the crazies who thought it was worth living for. This shamelessly ersatz blonde is one of them, and with the craftily orchestrated help of a fine selection of producers, remixers, and DJs, she's come up with a shamelessly ersatz sound that's tighter than her tummy--essence of electro, the D in DOR. At first I thought the electroporn twelve-inch that pairs "Burning Up" with "Physical Attraction" was the way to go, but that was before she'd parlayed the don't-let-me-down vagueness of "Borderline" into a video about interracial love (sex, I mean) and a sneaky pop hook simultaneously. At one stiff per four-song side, smarter than Elvis Costello. A-
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>>127946243
>This shamelessly ersatz blonde is
it's a fucking dye job
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Who's this Madonna, never heard of her
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Much as I've tried to think of a suitable analogy--early Bee Gees, early Floyd, the Grass Roots, the Lemon Yellow Pipers--none of them were insufferable enough. Really, guys, this stuff might (note I said might) have been fun the first time around. In 1983 it's liable to make a grown man puke. C
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>>127946323
>"To Tame a Land" was meant to be entitled "Dune" after the novel, but after seeking permission from Frank Herbert's agents, the band received a rejection letter which stated, "Frank Herbert doesn't like rock bands, particularly heavy rock bands, and especially bands like Iron Maiden".
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>"We played our first ever gig as a band in Los Angeles on February 19, 1983," Kiedis recalled. "For the first two performances we did, we went by the name Tony Flow and the Majestic Masters of Mayhem, because that's how I envisioned our music--majestic and chaotic. I was wearing a red plastic bucket on my head and a paisley print bathrobe at that gig. And yes, I was sober."
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>>127946391
if only someone had Dimebag Darrell-ed him before it was too late
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>>127946068
When your dad and his tennis buddies go new wave
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In theory I'm ok with synth duos, especially when the result is pop as stark and hooky as what David Stewart provides here. You might even say Annie Lennox has a bono vox. But these people are fools and pretentious fools on top of it. Just remember: When they say everybody's out to use or get used, be sure you go along for the ride you paid for. C
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In some pop convolution, the effectlessness with which these London lasses appropriate various attractive girlgroup epiphenomena may simply signify that they're not an "authentic" girl group. And right, the Dixie Cups (even the Marvelettes) (maybe even the Crystals) had no discernible identity either. But they could sing. B-
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DOWN WITH MAGGIE THE MILK SNATCHER
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>>127946611
eh once you've heard one you've heard them all
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I've finally figured out what people mean when they call Paulie pop--they mean he's not rock. But to me pop implies a strict sense of received form whether crafted by the dB's or Billy Joel. McCartney's in his own world entirely, which is the charm of his music. And of course, a reliance on charm has always been his weakness. This is quite pleasant except when Britain's number-one earner preaches against violence as if self-interest wasn't an issue, which is also the only time it comes into firm contact with the great outside. B-
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The second or third Joy Division II album has occasioned disputation among the faithful. Some claim that it cynically recycles their riffs, while others think it raises that old new music to transcendent summits. Me, I find it relatively gentle and melodic in its ambient postindustrial polyrhythms, their nicest record ever. I also think it sounds pretty much like the others. B+
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Initially, this blue angel won my heart by covering the two most profound pop songs of the past five years, "Money Changes Everything" and "When You Were Mine." Now, with "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" the official pep song of the daughters of Ms. and Pepsi-Cola and "Time After Time" throbbing hearts by the millions, I've softened my strictures about her Betty Boop bimboism--if a kook who's loved, respected, and taken seriously by her sisters fools boys into believing she can be fooled with, more power to her. First side's an eternal classic. Second sneaks by on the one where she kisses me and the one where she diddles herself. A
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Idolization is for rock stars, even rock stars manque like these impotent bohos--us critics just want a little respect, is all. So if it's not too much to ask, I wasn't pleased to hear my name pronounced right, not on this particular title track, anyway, while also noting that one of the two tracks lifted from Confusion Is Sex is a whole lot neater than the other track lifted from Confusion Is Sex. At least the title cut is likely to appeal to suckers for rock and roll instead of boho poseurs. Poseurs just shoot their mouths off a lot. With rock and rollers, you never know. B-
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In which schlocky Michael Omartian replaces magic man Quincy Jones and Summer is born again. You know why? Because Omartian believes in Jesus, that's why. The result is the best Christian rock this side of T-Bone Burnett, and not just because it's suitable for Danceteria, although that helps. After all, can T-Bone claim to have introduced the concept of agape to the secular audience? B+
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His art album having gone platinum and failed to clear bottom line, Joel comes at his poor neglected generation direct, peddling a nostalgia no one will mistake for philosophy. And although he's still a wordy bastard who can't leave a simple piece of music alone, the pre-Beatle "concept"--unmistakable references to the Four Seasons and Otis Redding (as if Otis entered Billy's world before the Beatles, but never mind) marking a selfconsciously simplified musical orientation--does rein in his showbiz ornateness. A good half of these songs have the timeless melodic appeal of the greatest pop (the greatest pre-rock pop, but never mind)--the chorus he stole from "L. v. Beethoven" is by no means the most pleasing thing here. And though his Stax horns are way too ornate, that doesn't mean they're no fun. B+
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Holy shit
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>>127946791
Fuck this album.
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>>127944725
...this sucks
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>>127946559
Boy Trouble was the story of this fucker's attempts to get a date in high school.
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>>127946804
if you live in the Northeast, you would very much say that. trust me, his hits are the forever curse of supermarkets everywhere.
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>>127946809
rog is what keeps the band together. without him they wouldnt be any good
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With music as subtle as Nelson's you wonder whether you're imagining things. Maybe we've just had it with his shtick--maybe a Martian couldn't tell the difference between this and Stardust. Then again, what do Martians know? Not only is Nelson choosing cornier material--self-serving schlock like the title song, awkward fripperies like "A Dreamer's Holiday"--but the relaxed, let's-wing-it delicacy has simply disappeared. When he tries at all, he usually oversings, and he's finally hitting the wrong clinkers. If you don't believe me, compare this "Autumn Leaves" to Stardust's timeless "September Song." Or ask yourself whether Julio Iglesias doesn't sound right at home on "As Time Goes By." C+
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Anyone who wants Dave's $17 million fling to flop doesn't understand how little good motives have to do with good rock and roll. Rodgers & Bowie are a rich combo in the ways that count as well as the ways that don't, and this stays up throughout, though it's perfunctory professional surface does make one wonder whether Bowie-the-thespian really cares much about pop music these days. "Modern Love" is the only interesting new song, the remakes are pleasantly pointless, and rarely has such a lithe rhythm player been harnessed to such a flat groove. Which don't mean the world won't dance to it. B
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Videos have been the making of this born poser's career and the unmaking of his music. Not that they've changed how hard and hooky it is, much less turned off the unwitting many who find sexism sexy. But if you've got no taste for the sound of the sneer, the visuals definitely aren't fantasy enough. C
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A satire on, celebration of, and lament for the upper-middle classmates an Orange County liberal knows like he knows his neighbor's backyard, the title song is a coup: poignant, droll, political about his own experience rather than some victim's. And dat's dat. Anticlimax: the yearningly Springsteenian--get this title--"For a Rocker." C+
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If Jonathan Richman thought he was as sexy as Richard Hell, he'd come on like Gordon Gano. And if you believe Jonathan Richman damn well is as sexy as Richard Hell, which Gano is counting on, remember that what makes Jonathan's kiddie act so (shall we say) appealing is that he counts on nothing except his fingers and toes. Gano knows his stuff--the barely electric music is striking enough for rock and roll. But for all its undeniable humor and panache the effect is precious, wimp bohemianism so self-congratulatory it'll be sucking its own wee-wee next time we look. B+
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It's hardly news that this platinum product is utter dogshit even by heavy metal standards; under direct orders from editors who don't know Iron Maiden from Wynton Marsalis, my beleaguered colleagues on the dailies have been saying so all year, and every insult goes into the press kit. Still, I must mention Mick Mars's dork-fingered guitar before getting to the one truly remarkable thing about this record: a track called "Ten Seconds To Love" in which Vince Neil actually seems to boast about how fast he can ejaculate (or as the lyric sheet puts it, "cum"). And therein, I believe, lies the secret of their commercial appeal--if you don't got it, flaunt it. Follow-up: "Pinkie Prick." D
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>>127947496
oh god he was so jelly that they got laid more than him
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It feels like this New Romantic movement has reached it's peak already.
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>>127946914
i wonder how much shooping it took to remove all the lines and creases from Granny's mug there
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>>127946772
This band aren't going nowhere.
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>>127947462
>the effect is precious, wimp bohemianism so self-congratulatory it'll be sucking its own wee-wee next time we look.
so much projection
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Whoever Harold Arlen is.
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OH GOD, MICHAEL JACKSON SUCKS
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>>127947533
Lacked a killer cut like albums one and three.
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Establishing vocal individuality without entering the cartoon territory that is funk's comic blessing and romantic/realistic curse, they locate rap somewhere to the left of the hardest hard funk tradition, James Brown circa "Sex Machine" and "Mother Popcorn," rocking the body by pushing the beat (like Trouble Funk or the Treacherous Three) rather than teasing it (like Spoonie Gee or Soul Sonic Force). This almost athletic physical excitement, this willed and urgent hope, has been the core of their real message no matter what party slogan or all-night boast they've set it to. It's a disgrace that Sylvia Robinson's latest attempt to cash in their rep fades away to the forty-five edits that never did a thing for them--even "The Message," which doesn't lose a word except its coda, surrenders an unbearable tension along with its instrumental breaks. Culturally depriveds who don't own such twelve-inches as "Birthday Party," "It's Nasty," and "The Message" itself are advised to settle if they have no choice. B+
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>>127947703
They had albums other than Stay Hungry?
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This Finnish hard rock foursome, led by two men named Michael Monroe and Andy McCoy, writes lyrics that must impress their countrymen more than they do native English speakers such as myself. Fairly cute, I suppose, but I wish they'd spent more time studying their Dolls records than their Dolls photos. You know how the saying goes--in London, a look beats a hook. I guess it's the same way in Helsinki. C+
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Though I wish this rewarded close listening like John Williams, Fripp & Eno, or the Archies, it's a comfort to encounter antiwar rock that has the weight of years of self-pity behind it--tends to add both literary and political resonance. With this band, aural resonance is a given. C+
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With a bottom that howls along like a mechanical bull and percussive techniques borrowed from the scrapyard, this is no wave honed with five years of experience, too messy for mysticism and too funny for suicide. In the great tradition of their live sets it does get wearying after a while and lyrics are available to suckers on request. I think it's a hoot. B+
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>>127945381
seriously like that shit's for the Violent Femmes audience
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>>127947037
true up until 1979
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>>127947388
>>127947417
were these two album covers made to look the same intentionally?
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I can't get to sleep
I think about the complications
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Our love's in jeopardy, baby...
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aaaaaaall niiiiiiiiiiiiight long
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This is unlike any hardcore punk records I've picked up. I like it, a lot of attitude.
>>127945936
Fair
>>127945960
Same with this album, I don't even know if this is punk or metal anymore. All I can say is these kids sound like they're the Presidents of the Motorhead fan club or something
>>127946165
Dio doesn't need Iommi to be great, but I wish they were still together
>>127946772
Someone shoot this singer
>>127947496
Metal hating cuck faggot. I wasn't sold on this band before, but now i can tell they're special
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Wahhh wahhhhh I pooped my diaper
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>>127950464
Wah wah my dad is 20 and I won't be born for over a decade
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>>127946804
Fuck you!
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This isn't as smart as Computer Games, or as soulful either--success will always go to George's head. So be thankful the head is a capacious one, and connected to his rump. Side one leads off with his version of The African King and quickly proves his most irresistible since Motor-Booty Affair, with "Quickie" a riff/groove that gleams like "Flash Light" and "Last Dance" a big fat fart in David Bowie's face. Even the talkover filler on the title track is worth listening to, and Philippe Wynne's lowdown oinks make "Stingy" a worthy heir to none other than the Coasters' "I'm a Hog for You." A
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Given Richie's well-established appeal to white people, this surprisingly solid album bids fair to turn into a mini-Thriller, and good for him--it's a real advance. In the years since he became a ballad writer he's learned how to sing them--"Hello" is nowhere near as magical a song as "Easy," but the grain of Richie's delivery gives you something to sink your ears into. And where the Commodores' funk often sounded a little forced, his jumpy international dance-pop comes to him naturally even when he's putting on that stupid West Indian accent. B+
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>>127946914
someone ship these old bags back to '54 where they belong. we have Cyndi Lauper now.
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Although my tastes in porn don't run to designer whips, Terri Nunn's sex-object impersonation on the cunningly entitled "Sex (I'm a . . .)" generates a mild buzz. But that's the only good part--the rest is flimsy synth-pop sans even a flash of pink, unless songs about the Metro make you wet your pants. C+
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>no Prince album out this year
Fortunately.
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>>127950919
Songs about the Metro do make me wet my pants.
https://youtu.be/V_l7J7aabts?si=ZAeWPo96bOnqsq-H
Band caught shit for sounding "too European."
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>>127947865
FLEX THOSE TRUST FUNDS
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>>127946709
i forgot that Blue Monday was a non album single and not actually on here
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>>127950507
I'm still five years away from being born.
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eh...that Steve Jobs guy bent my ear about the revolutionary stuff a computer can do for you but all the things can do is keep recipes and play vidya. maybe someday in the future when you can look at photo-real porn with them i'll give the things a chance.
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>>127944719
Ah fug, this is during the height of the AIDS epidemic. :DDDDDD
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Especially given the rich little rich girl's South African connection, I ignored this airless atrocity--lots of bad records sell, and parents do need X-mas gifts. But when it scored in my own critics' poll I could remain silent no longer. Forget phrasing, interpretation, or--God knows from someone who had trouble rocking "Heat Wave"--swing. All Ronstadt does with these fine-to-middling pop standards is stifle them beneath her moderately gorgeous voice. Her triumph is conceptual--genteel neoconservatives, kneejerk pluralists, one-upping convolutionists, and out-and-out ignoramuses all get off on the idea of a "rock" performer validating the prerock values such songs signal. And may every one of them wear a tie, a garter belt, or both for the rest of their shrinking lives. C-
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Go Orioles!
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>>127944719
You will now remember the US Festival
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LnpTCYYG88
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The groove is as inspired as this crack band of blues 'n' boogie pros can make it--when Cooder, Lee, Dunn & Hawkins play their hearts out, mere professionalism (also mere boogie) gets left behind, and Clapton's guitar hasn't rung so crisp and clear since Layla. The drawback is that the music is the message, everything Clapton boasts he ("still") has "left to say" on "Ain't Going Down," his only notable new song. If blues power were my idea of God, I might feel a transcendent presence even so. But blues power in itself isn't even my idea of a foxhole. B+
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>>127944719
¡SANTA VACA!
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>>127944725
Roger legit ruined this band. Pink Floyd, please kick this commie retard out of the band. If I wanted garbage politics, I'll just read the Communist Manifesto.
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>>127945845
>>127945960
I can't wait for these guys to make metal great again!
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Anglophile album buyers are nothing if not fickle, and this well-named bit of fluff is just forgettable enough to get caught in the backlash. No, it's not entirely fair--the single's cute, as are the little fuguey bits. Boo hoo. C+
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>>127947645
There's only one grand old lady of jazz, even though she's also sounding like it these days.
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>>127947750
Stayed a huge touring band throughout the 80s but they never really tried too hard in the studio again after BIB.
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>>127947417
girls absolutely went nuts for this guy back then, but he also had a good enough guitarist to give him some rock credentials
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>>127946488
Come on, it's a jokey song about BDSM no need to get uptight about it.
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>frontman has a nervous breakdown
>band stops touring
>drummer quits
>band releases this album

How will they ever recover?
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Surprised this hasn't been posted yet ...
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>>127946699
Paul was wearing a bulletproof vest in public for a while in the early 80s.
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As long as Luther Vandross produces her she'll never do anything awful, but she might do something bland. Vandross's problem, obviously, is songs--he does his job on the title track, but even the one by Aretha's son outclasses his other four, which I blame in part on collaborator Marcus Miller, whose bass anchors the suavely pervasive groove. His virtue, just as obviously, is that he lets Aretha sing--there's a hoarse velvet grain to her voice here that turns Michael Lovesmith's "Better Friends Than Lovers" into a major statement and the Temptations' "I Wish It Would Rain" into an Aretha song. B+
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The fast side is honorable and dispensable--great title riff plus filler, nothing anyone who owns some early-'70s JB is likely to need or even want, though neophytes will dance to it now. The slow side comprises the three strongest covers Brown's released since he stuck a classic "Kansas City" onto Everybody's Doin' the Hustle in 1975. He still approaches high notes with the caution of someone who's hoarse as indelibly as he's black and proud, but he's emoting like he wants you to believe "Tennessee Waltz" and "For Your Precious Love" and in between comes "The Right Time," which isn't really slow at all and features a Brownette who approaches any kind of note as if she owns it. B+
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Arena-rockers who never forgot heavy metal was once white blues, they took a long vacation and resurfaced as a fine white blues band starring a guitarist who always sounds like himself. Now, with hitest b.p.m.s speeding the groove, they've motorvated back toward metal again--boogie in overdrive, a funny car that's half platinum and half plutonium. The videos make you smile, the record runs you over. That's the pleasure of it. B+
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When first I fell in love with the austere lilt and falsetto fantasy they've pinned to plastic here, I thought it was just that I'd finally outgrown the high-energy fixation that's always blocked my emotional access to falsetto ballads. So I went back to Spinners and Blue Magic, Philip Bailey and my man Russell Thompkins Jr., and indeed, they all struck a little deeper--but only, I soon realized, because the superior skill of these kids had opened me up. I know of no pop music more shameless in its pursuit of pure beauty--not emotional (much less intellectual) expression, just voices joining for their own sweet sake, with the subtle Latinized rhythms (like the close harmonies themselves) working to soften odd melodic shapes and strengthen the music's weave. High energy doesn't always manifest itself as speed and volume--sometimes it gets winnowed down to its essence. A+
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A concept album about " a San Francisco band that, in the near future, develops a computer assisted telepathic amplification technology" which enables it to flee first to Australia and then to outer space? Godspeed, sez I. D+
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>>127950881
It's not as if they're still chasing chart hits or anything.
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I prefer my musical watersheds juicier than this latest installment in their snazzy pop saga, and my rock middlebrows zanier, or at least nicer. If only the single of the summer was a little more ambiguous, so we could hear it as a poem of mistrust to the Pope or the Secretary of State; instead, Sting wears his sexual resentment on his chord changes like a closet "American Woman" fan, reserving the ambiguity for his Jungian conundrums, which I'm sure deserve no better. Best lyrics: Stew's "Miss Gradenko" and Andy's "Mother." Juiciest chord changes: the single of the summer. B+
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>>127955293
Took that fucking long to get to this one? Sheesh, that's one of the first albums I'd think of when I think 1983.
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>>127955438
Is this like a shaft of light or a laser going straight through her head? Was she in on the joke?
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>>127955438
Fuck you Jim Steinman, just...just fuck you.
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>>127955438
I find a lot of copies of this album in secondhand shops in my area for some reason.
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It's one of Jett's virtues that unlike so many rock traditionalists she doesn't let her sense of humor undercut her commitment--"Fake Friends" (cf. "Back Stabbers") and "The French Song" (cf. "Triad") are the real stuff. It's also one of her virtues that unlike so many other rock traditionalists she does have a sense of humor. Even makes fun of the Stones--they called "Starfucker" "Star Star," she covers it as "Star Star" (cassette-only until retailers pressured MCA into taking it off, still available as twelve-inch B-side), then dubs her own "Scumbag" "Coney Island Whitefish." And if you don't see what's so funny about her tuneless "Everyday People" (the twelve-inch in question), I guarantee Sylvester Stewart is laughing all the way to his next label. No joke: her nagging love-is-pain clichés. B+
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>>127956035
Oh yes I hate Holding Out For A Hero and it was like the biggest single of the entire year.
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COME ON EILEEN, OH COME ON EILEEN
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I COME HOME IN THE MORNING LIGHT
MY MAMA SAID "WHEN YOU GONNA LIVE YOUR LIFE RIGHT?"
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>>127956214
i saw Cyndi Lauper performing live not long ago. For like 71 her voice has really held up great, but man that crowd...I couldn't get any swishier if I was at pride week.
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>>127956256
she claimed the industry railroaded her for one reason or another, but maybe it's just that she didn't have any good material after the debut album
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As a guy who likes his funk obvious, I think those who esteem "Rockit" as highly as Head Hunters are too kind to Head Hunters. Small thanks to Herbie, lots to Material and Grand Mixer D.St., it's the best novelty instrumental in years and the best pop of Hancock's life. Elsewhere various bright ideas, such as Pete Cosey, are obscured by the usual aura of set-piece dink--jumpy enough and often fun, but fusoid nevertheless. B+
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EUROPE
7 DOORS HoTEL

>>127944785
>>127944957
>>127946323
>>127946659
DAAAAMN! These are it, dude!
And where's the Van Halen Album??
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SHE GOT A MEAN STREAK
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>>127944719
First time I saw Dream Syndicate I was amazed, absolutely had to get the EP.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYIo7jxgL84

Some kinda scandal going around about Vicki Peterson shacking up with Steve Wynn etc, those were the days.
Couple'a years later, around when "Medicine Show" came out, I had to agree with that rock critic who said it was like *they* had become a medicine show.

Also, these electro-folk guys, they were amazing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7CTikfbL_w
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>>127954780
They were so much better when JC was in the band!
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>>127954820
I could never figure out just what he saw in DeBarge.
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>>127946068
>>127946449
>When your dad and his tennis buddies go new wave
they were still relatively young though. no one in the band was even 40 yet
>>127953173
white feathers is a great album! i listen to it all the time
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>>127958737
as he said, The Who were planning to tour in 83 until Warner told them they had to have an album out but Pete couldn't come up with any material for one so he decided to just pack it in and the band was done.
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>>127956508
Herbie album #67 iirc.
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>>127957588
>Medicine Show
John Coltrane Stereo Blues is pretty good. Overall through, the magic is gone.



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