Street-Legal [Columbia, 1978]Inveterate rock and rollers learn to find charm in boastful, secretly girl-shy adolescents, but boozy-voiced misogynists in their late thirties are a straight drag. This divorcé sounds overripe, too in love with his own self-generated misery to break through the leaden tempos that oppress his melodies, devoid not just of humor but of lightness--unless, that is, he intends his Neil Diamond masquerade as a joke. Because he's too shrewd to put his heart into genuine corn, and because his idea of a tricky arrangement is to add horns or chicks to simplistic verse-and-chorus abcb structures, a joke is what it is. But since he still commands remnants of authority, the joke is sour indeed. C+
>cuckgau
>>130626175>Inveterate rock and rollers learn to find charm in boastful, secretly girl-shy adolescents, but boozy-voiced misogynists in their late thirties are a straight dragso much projection
>>130626175I don't like Street-Legal but this is just bad critique, most of the songs on Street Legal don't follow a "verse-and-chorus abcb structure" so that's just wrong. Most rock and rollers weren't secretly girl shy lol Bob was always part of the fuck anything that moves school,
>>130626223>Most rock and rollers weren't secretly girl shy lol Bob was always part of the fuck anything that moves school,Cuckgau could never quite escape his prudish Christian fundie upbringing despite claiming to be a fedora tipper.
>>130626223Dylan was the guy who thought his wife should be ok with him bringing groupies to their house to fuck.
>>130626223I take it he's probably referring more to the 50s R&R of his childhood than 70s rock, but even then that was bullshit unless he thinks "Runaway" was real life and not just a fantasy.
>>130626248George Harrison said he was doing a recording session once and Dylan randomly showed up at the studio, picked up some hanger-on girl/groupie who was there, and fucked her in a tent out back.
>>130626255Del Shannon and Roy Orbison were total normie Chads, them pretending to be shy and afraid of girls was a character they were playing.
