ITT: /mu/ in 1979

>inb4 this lazy idea for a thread gets 150+ replies

Bros I just heard Ozzy got fired from Sabbath, they’re done. Never going to release another album

TRAGEDY
WHEN THE FEELING'S GONE AND YOU CAN'T GO ON
IT'S TRAGEDY

WE ARE FAMIILLLLLLYYYYYY

Not as country-rocky as you'd expect--the Eagles are pros and they adapt to the times by making the music tough. I actually enjoy a few of these songs until I come into contact with the conceited, sentimental woman-haters doing the singing. I mean, these guys think punks are cynical and antilife as they proceed to put the "king of Hollywood" because he won't suck John David Souther's dick? C

I went in the store and the bread was $2 more than it was last week. Fix this shit, you fucking peanut farmer.

Grrr, I hate disco so much.

>>127169721
are these threads just an excuse for you to autistically spam these shitty reviews?

>>127169645 (OP)
Is Punk dead bros?

Ha ha wow, glad I missed my plane flight in Chicago the other day. That would have ended badly.

Cool kid here, I never have the time.

FUCK THE BEE GEES

>>127169645 (OP)
Wtf? Why are they doing this rockabilly throwback bullshit? This sucks

wanna go burn some disco records with me?

Never say formalists can't change--in the wake of Kiss and Boston this is heavy metal that's fast, pure, and clean with a minimum of myopthea and bombast, while the guitar features are defined strictly as that. So why then don't pure formalists love the shit out of these guys? Not because they're into dominating women, that's for sure. C+

I'm telling you guys the Beatles are getting back together soon, John's been talking about how he regrets some of his previous behavior.

>>127169765
but the last thread we had was 1962 and Cuckagu wasn't even around back then

>lots of cancelled shows and half-empty venues
Ha ha, yes. Finally. As a certain president said, "Our long national nightmare is finally over."

>>127169821
didn't see that one
I'm always seeing this idiot shitting up the threads with these pointless reviews, as if anyone gave a shit

>>127169796
meh the critics will eat it up anyway

I never visit New York without having a switchblade in my coat for protection. Shit's dangerous down there.

>>127169777
Nah I heard this band called Black Flag but I think they're just tuneless noise honestly

This one opens with a promising song about the band's career titled "No Surprise." Then they inch towards the dull tempos, flash guitar, and stupid cover versions of heavy metal orthodoxy. No surprise. C

>>127169657
at least in this thread we can't really take pointless cheap shots at 50s housewife pop singers like in some of the other ones

>>127169838
It's funny how in Christgau threads there's always someone saying he has metalheads/folkies/etc live rent free in his head while they(?) cry about his reviews everyday

>>127169645 (OP)
What should I listen to before the Soviets finally man up and do it to us first?

>>127169877
Think About It and Bone To Bone rip. Shows what you know, Bob.

>>127169861
Was just in New York, Harlem area. There's some weird music thing happening there, saw these black kids standing on the corner and talking over a drum loop trying to make everything rhyme. Sounded like shit to be honest but some of it was cool

>>127169833
Yeah fuck this band.

shake it down already

>>127169914
How the fuck were you not skinned alive by heroin addicts, New York's fucking scary man it's not the 50s anymore.

I must say, I admire the perverse riskiness of this music, trading disco bounce for demented falsetto abstractions--less love-man than newborn kitten. And I admit that I also genuinely admire the many small moments of madness within such as how the three multitracked voices echo the phrase "living together." But obsessive ornamentation can't transform a curiosity into inhabitable music and there is not one song on here that equals any on the first side of Saturday Night Fever. C

>>127169968
Chances are at least 7-8 of the cars in that photo have a dead body, drugs, or both in the trunk.

>>127169893
>defending slop

>>127169968
that photo is a perfect encapsulation of the Carter years. dirty, brown, decayed, and ugly.

>>127170006
>if you don't post obsessively about how awful 50s pop shit that nobody under 70 cares about is then you must love it

>>127170024
i didn't know Pat Boone's grandson posts here. nah your grandpa sucks, bro.

David Byrne's celebration of paranoia is a little obsessive, but like they say, that doesn't mean somebody isn't trying to get him. I just wish material as relatively expansive as "Found a Job" or "The Big Country" were available to open up the context a little; that way, a plausible prophecy like "Life During Wartime" might come off as cautionary realism instead of ending up in the nutball corner with self-referential fantasies like "Paper" and "Memories Can't Wait." And although I'm impressed with the gritty weirdness of the music, it is narrow--a little sweetening might help. A-

>>127170041
I don't give a shit about 50s slop pop. I'd rather just have people post about what they love than post every single day about shit they hate that literally nobody on /mu/ likes or promotes

>>127170058
I never could get into this band. They're just not for me.

>>127170021
pretty sure NYC peaked as a total shithole during the Bush Sr years

>>127170072
Like most critic -core they're just weird for the sake of it and not really listenable music.

>>127169645 (OP)
Just like Boards of Canada said, it's 1979 in the sunshine, and I am pulling up to the "Big Ass" club in New York with a whipped cream daiquiri in my hands. It is pooling onto my palms. Suddenyl a valet comes out of the club and forces this music into my head like some kind of obscene clown. I smile huge because it's 1979, baby, and that's what this music is all about:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ngVXg8W6K4

>>127170021
I have a few photos saved for that exact reason, 70s New York fascinates me for just how fucking terrible it seems to have been. People make fun of the city today but it was on some other unholy level back then.

>>127170077
Nah, crime peaked in the 70s and urban decay was rampant then. Overall national crime peaked under Bush Sr. but NYC's peaked in the 70s.

>>127170062
>>127170024
i mean if someone does one of these threads and it's about the 50s-60s it's going to inevitably come up because that music was integral to that era and you can't really get around that. it would be like the 2000s and you didn't mention Nickelback.

>>127169796
Rockabilly is the logical end of punk.

>>127170139
the worst years were from when the OPEC recession started in 73 up to the early 80s recession. although even in 73 Bachman-Turner Overdrive had a song about NYC being dangerous to be in.

>>127170021
That's a land reclamation project, probably on the Hudson.

Side one, with its not-funny-enough instrumentals and evasive satire, was dire enough to make me suspect they'd made their arena-rock move before there was an arena in the world that would have them. But "The Day My Baby Gave Me a Surprize" and "Secret Agent Man" are as bright as anything on the debut, and the arrangements offer their share of surprizes. B-

>>127170150
I've browsed a few of these threads and the ratio of "good" to "bad" music is abysmal though. For every post about cool 50s jazz or r&b there's 10 complaining about Rosemary Clooney or whoever the fuck

>>127170184
Funny that I was never taught, neither in school nor in mainstream media, *why* the oil embargo happened in the first place. Rather convenient.

>>127170221
Rosemary Clooney was really pretty blameless as far as it goes.

>>127170236
Good reason for that. They don't want you to know that it was mainly government regulations that caused the 70s energy crisis especially Texas having restrictions on oil production.

Hey guys I just arrived in San Francisco and I wanna start a rockabilly band. Know any good local musicians?

What's most depressing about this incredibly drab disc is that Elton's flirtation with Eurodisco comes a year too late. Even at his smarmiest, the man always used to be on top of the zeitgeist. C-

>>127170252
now there were some actively malicious pop singers from that time but no need to name names

>>127170312
yeah yeah crap he recorded to finish out his contract with MCA and he never even played anything from this one live

Can someone give me the QRD on this bot that just spams random reviews

Some doctrinaire new wavers see the rapid success of this Jacksonville sextet as a reactionary portent, but as an old Skynyrd fan I can't get upset. They do boogie better than, let's see here, Missouri, Bama, Crimson Tide, .38 Special, Wet Willie, Atlanta Rhythm Section, or (mercy sakes) the Charlie Daniels Band. Really, they sound pretty good. Only one thing missing: ideas. C+

>>127170221
we've posted R&B stuff in threads before. i do agree jazz doesn't get posted as much as it could.

>>127170390
>Bob gets filtered by smooth Southern rock jams. Again.

>>127169833
Rob Halford talked a lot of shit about KISS in interviews back then although he's gotten kinder to them this side of the millenium. But back then he was always like "fake", "circus act", "don't rock as hard as us etc"

Musically, this is a step toward schlock that knows its name--a few smarmy melodies mixed in with the production values and synthesizer furbelows. Thematically, it's both sophomoric and disgusting--programmatic misogyny rooted in sexual rejections that were clearly deserved. Visually, it's sadistic--the three women on the Hipgnosis cover wear black veils that only partly conceal their scars, warts and blotches. What is it they stencil on street corners? Castrate art rockers? D

>>127170252
really she's the last person i'd beat up on she was only really a pop star for like 4 years and didn't want to sing Mitch Miller slop, but she didn't have a choice

>>127170456
>programmatic misogyny rooted in sexual rejections that were clearly deserved
so much projection

In which Brown relinquishes the profit-taking ego gratification of writing and producing everything himself. Those credits go to Brad Shapiro, Millie Jackson's helpmate, who thank god is no disco man himself. Sure he likes disco tricks--synthesized sound effects, hooky female chorus, bass drum pulse--but he loves what made JB, well, the original disco man: hard-driving, slightly Latinized funk patterns against the rough rap power of that amazing voice, which may have lost expressiveness but definitely retains its sense of rhythm. Plus: disco disc of the year, "It's Too Funky in Here." And a renunciation of "It's a Man's, Man's, Man's World." A-

>>127170570
JB's first good record in years because he gets some outside help so it's not as self-indulgent as the last several albums.

YEH KISS SUH SWEET
YEH BREATH SUH SUHR
SUMTIMES I'M THINKIN THAT I LUV YOU
BUT I KNOW IT'S ONLY LUST

The lyrics are indifferently crafted, and while their one-dimensionality is winningly perverse at a time when his old fans will take any ambiguity they can get, it does serve to flaunt their theological wrongheadedness and occasional jingoism. Nevertheless, this is his best album since Blood on the Tracks. The singing is passionate and detailed, and the pros behind him--especially Mark Knopfler, who has a studio career in store--play so sharply that his anger gathers general relevance at its most vindictive. And so what if he's taken up with the God of Wrath? Since when have you been so crazy about the God of Love? Or any other species of hippie bullshit? B+

>>127170077
Your post makes no sense.
What are you talking about?

>>127170693
Dylan goes disco+Christtard. No thanks.

>>127170384
He's some sperg that spams these reviews while replying to himself to make it look like someone's interested. You can tell because neither the review posts nor responses ever bump the threads he's in. It's compulsive autism.

>>127170122
Other than the fact that New York State is next to The Canadian Border, why would any board of anything from Canada care about what goes on in New York?
Your post makes no sense.

>>127170732
>You can tell because neither the review posts nor responses ever bump the threads he's in
?

>>127170730
yeah i'm done with that guy now

>>127170139
You talk about 70s New York City like it's in the past.
I remember five years ago when The West Side Highway crumbled.
It's good you saved that photo.
I hope they rebuild it some day.

And what is this "Bush Sr" that people keep bringing up?

Crime is still rampant today. Don't walk alone.

>>127170784
>And what is this "Bush Sr" that people keep bringing up?
The US ambassador to China I think.

>>127170150
What's "Nickelback"?
Somebody who tried out for the football team, and didn't make the cut?

>>127170169
What are you talking about?
Do you know how many punk rockers get into Robert Gordon ever since he was featured on the cover of Punk magazine last year?
If anything, punks are gonna support the Rockabilly revival.
I mean, for fucks sake, The Cramps throw some Rockabilly into their shows.

I work at Radio Shack and damn smarty kids coming in and typing a BASIC program on the display model TRS-80 that fills the screen with the word "butt."

>>127170184
We haven't reached the 80s yet.
It's still 1979.
Why do people think they can predict what's going to happen in the future?

>>127170831
what do you even do with a computer anyway? doesn't seem very useful to me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFMF4ZFmtnU

>>127170847
You can I guess play type in games from magazines and write a program that fills the screen with naughty words.

>>127170439
Yeah, Rob shouldn't talk shit about KISS since they did Judas Priest a favor by letting them open up for them on their tour last year.
In fact, if it weren't for Judas Priest opening up for KISS, nobody in The U.S. would even know or care about them.
>Plus I think Rob Halford might be a fruit.
>I'm no bigot, but I've been to The Village a few times, and I know a so called "Leather Boy" when I see one.

Not as sodden as you'd expect--these guys are pros and they adapt to the times by making the music tough. I actually enjoy a few of these songs until coming into contact with the dumb woman-haters doing the singing. I mean, they complain that punks are cynical and antilife as they complain the world is all madness and lies and then proceed to rhyme "science" with "appliance" and don't intend a joke. C-

>>127170693
How can he go from Athiest and songs like With God on Our Side, to being a born again Christian with songs like You Gotta Serve Somebody!
Fuck this hypocrite!
Nashville Skyline was his last decent album, anyway.

>>127170957
I like Foreigner.
They're hilarious.
If you take them serously, they suck, but if you view them as the joke that they are, they're funny as fuck.

Fuck, Adam Levine is born this year.

>>127169645 (OP)
wow this new joy division album is really rad also did anyone else see the explosion at murray's costume manor?

>>127170957
what in the fuck is going on on that album cover? is she taking a shit in the urinal? i don't get it.

>>127170957
>>127169721
This is literally the same recycled review he just changed a few words.

The dam is bursting, metal bros.
This is our year. I can feel it.

Why are they cavorting with a couple of trannies?

I paid $50 to see Aerosmith the other night and they were only on for 20 minutes and were so high they could barely play. I want a refund.

Not to break the continuum of the thread or anything, but why was Head Games by Foreigner deleted?
There is nothing offensive about the cover, and there is no nudity.

>NOT Criticism
>Merely an inquiry, and observation

>>127171242
this is their hardest rocking album ever

>>127170215
they admitted the production was shit compared to album one

Fond as I am of the pop junk they recycle--with love and panache, like the closet ecologists they are--there's something parochially suburban about turning it into the language of a world view. So I'm more delighted with their rhythms, which show off their Georgia roots by adapting the innovations of early funk (a decade late, just like the Stones and Chicago blues) to an endlessly danceable forcebeat format. Also delightful is their commitment to sexual integration--Cindy Wilson is singing more and more, although her voice occasionally gives out before her ambitions do. Major worry: only one of the copyright 1979 songs--my favorite track, "Dance This Mess Around"--is as amazing as the 1978 stuff. A-

This advocate of the fuck-around-and-fib-about-it school of post-monogamy ("Morality is what I can do and still live with myself," she revealed to her publicist recently) dedicates her latest to Anaïs Nin, and for once I think she's selling herself short--at her best she's sharper than Anaïs Nin. If she'd been able to maintain the shrewd, ironic, vengeful-to-loving-to-bemused pace of the first three songs, she might actually have made a case for her ethical theories. But after that she mostly seems confused. Anaïs would be proud. B

For the decade's greatest rock and roller to come out with his greatest album in 1979 is no miracle in itself--the Stones made Exile as grizzled veterans. The miracle is that Young doesn't sound much more grizzled now than he already did in 1969; he's wiser but not wearier, victor so far over the slow burnout his title warns of. The album's music, like its aura of space-age primitivism, seems familiar, but while the melodies work because they're as simple and fresh as his melodies have always been, the offhand complexity of the lyrics is unprecedented in Young's work: "Pocahantas" makes "Cortez the Killer" seem like a tract, "Sedan Delivery" turns "Tonight's the Night" on its head, and the Johnny Rotten tribute apotheosizes rock-and-roll-is-here-to-stay. Inspirational Bumper Sticker: "Welfare mothers make better lovers." A+

>>127171499
I just never liked this band and I tried.

Still can't believe Elvis is dead bros. Life's so unfair

What's wrong with most of these songs is that Taylor is singing them. He can sing, sure--the "Day Tripper" cover and "Is That the Way You Look" show off his amused, mildly funky self-involvement at its sharpest and sexiest. But too often the material reveals him at his sharpest and most small-minded; John Lennon might get away with "I Will Not Lie for You," but JT's whine undermines whatever honesty the sentiment may have. C+

>>127171915
>John Lennon might get away with "I Will Not Lie for You," but JT's whine undermines whatever honesty the sentiment may have
I agree on that point. His delivery ruins the lyrics.

>>127171915
>the "Day Tripper" cover

dammit, James go disco (even got a goddamn Barry Gibb impersonation on there). and anyway i don't really like his vocals on this album he sounds like he's got something lodged in his throat.

70s British rock saving grace

>>127169721
Piece of crap album you can tell they were a spent creative force by this point.

For a typical dumb tribulations of a rock star epic this one isn't too bad--unlikely to arouse much pity or contempt, anyway. The music is alright, too--minimalist-maximalist kitsch complete with speech clips. But the story is confused, "mother" and "modern life" make for unconvincing villains, and if the recontextualization of "up against the wall" is intended ironically, I don't get it. B-

>>127171861
Too bad

I enjoy a hooky album as much as the next guy, so when this one elicited vague grunts of pleasure I looked forward to listening in detail. But the lyrics turned out to be glib variations on the usual Star Romances trash and in the absence of a vocal personality (as opposed to accurate singing) or rhythmic thrust (as opposed to a beat) I'll wait for this material to be covered by artists of substance, say, Tavares or the Doobie Brothers. C-

>>127172438
careful you'll trigger that one schizo who hates Supertramp

I used to think Bowie was middlebrow, but now I'd prefer to call him post-middlebrow--a habitue of prematurely abandoned modernist space. Musically, these fragments of anomie don't seem felt, and lyrically they don't seem thought through. But that's part of their charm--the way they confound categories of sensibility and sophistication is so frustrating it's satisfying, at least if you have your doubts about the categories. Less satisfying, actually, than the impact of the record as a whole. A-

In which fast-stepping Michael J. and quick-witted Quincy J. fashion the dance groove of the year. Michael's vocabulary of grunts, squeals, hiccups, moans, and asides is a vivid reminder that he's grown up, and the title tune suggests that maybe what makes Stevie Wonder (who contributes a good ballad) such an oddball isn't his genius or even his blindness so much as the fact that since childhood his main contact with the real world has been on stage and in bed. A

>>127169899
>It's funny how in Christgau threads there's always someone saying he has metalheads/folkies/etc live rent free in his head while they(?) cry about his reviews everyday
I think the guy's problem is that he just can't get into music that doesn't have a groove to it.

Where some "eclectic" rock and rollers brim with sheer experimental joy, Benatar is sodden with try-anything-once ambition. From showbiz "hard rock" ("Heartbreaker") to big-beat "cabaret" ("Don't Let It Show") to received "futurism" ("My Clone Sleeps Alone") to fake-Blondie "Eurodisco" ("We Live for Love"), she shows about as much aesthetic principle as Don Kirshner. Though she does have a better voice than Kirshner. C+

This makes it in the end, but not by much--a tour de force like Parallel Lines it ain't. The soft focus of the lyrics remains more evasive than profound or mysterious, and a lot of what replaces the diminished popcraft either wanders ("Sound-A-Sleep") or repeats experiments we've heard before ("Victor"). Then again, "Sound-A-Sleep" probably ought to wander, since it's about insomnia and the pushy organ hysterics of "Victor" are a gutsy move for a group that's supposed to have gone AOR. I don't like the overarching fatalism--me, I hope to die old and get ugly--but I do like the way the lyrics depart from pop bohemia to speak directly to the mass audience they're reaching. And Debbie just keeps getting better. A-

>>127173228
the Blondie album everyone forgets because it didn't produce a hit single

A million bucks is what I call obsessive production, but for once it means something. This is like reggae, or Eno--not only don't Lindsey Buckingham's swelling edges and dynamic separations get in the way of the music, they're inextricable from the music, or maybe they are the music. The passionate dissociation of the mix is entirely appropriate to an ensemble in which the three principals have all but disappeared (vocally) from each other's work. But only Buckingham is attuned enough to get exciting music out of a sound so spare and subtle it reveals the limits of Christine McVie's simplicity and shows Stevie Nicks up for the mooncalf she's always been. Also, it doesn't make for very good background noise. B+

This has more content and feeling than Little Criminals. But as with Little Criminals its highlight is a (great) joke--"The Story of a Rock and Roll Band," which ought to be called "E.L.O." and isn't, for the same reason supergroupie radio programmers have shied away from it. Hence, the content comprises ever more intricate convolutions of bad taste; rather than making you think about homophobes and heavy-metal toughs and me-decade assholes the way he once made you think about rednecks and slave traders and high school belles, he makes you think about how he feels about them. Which just isn't as interesting. B+

Needless to say, he also outsings Kristofferson, and without much extra in the god-given department, though the high note that climaxes "Please Don't Tell Me How the Story Ends" is a doozy. But his inborn tact is wasted on this material. As Al Green, Janis Joplin, Elvis Presley, and even Ray Price have proven, the way to put such arrant corn across is to pull out the stops. B-

>Disc 3
>Gordon Jenkins finds his grandson's Styx and Rush albums and goes "So this is what the kids are into these days..."

You tend to suspect anyone who releases three double-LPs in eighteen months of delusions of Chicago, but Donna is here to stay and this is her best album. The first two sides, four songs per, never let up--the voice breaks and the guitars moan over a bass-drum thump in what amounts to empty-headed girl-group rock and roll brought cannily up-to-date. Moroder makes his Europercussion play on side four, which is nice too, but side three drags, suggesting that the rock and roll that surfaces here is perhaps only a stop along the way to a totally bleh total performance. Me, I still love my Marvelettes records. A-

You didn't really think she wanted to be the Supremes (much less the Toys or the Chiffons), did you? Nah--she wants to be Diana Ross, albeit without show tunes. Buy the single. C+

Fairly funky, I suppose, although not on the slow ones. But if this is 'delic, then so was the Strawberry Alarm Clock. B-

The tuneful synthesizer pomp on side two confirms my long-held belief that this is a real good art-rock band, and their title for the first ten minutes or so, "Carouselambra," suggests that they find this as humorous as I do. The lollapalooza hooks on the first side confirms the world's long-held belief that this is a real good hard rock band. Lax in the lyrics department, as usual, but their best since Houses of the Holy. B+

>>127169807
Man these guys! I prefer Black Sabbath ya dig!

All I'll say is if I'd never mistake them for Foreigner I'd never mistake them for Free anymore, either. And are those syndrums on "Evil Wind"? Naughty, naughty, naughty. C

>>127173880
best long road trip album ever

>>127170221
on that note can we do a thread about 1958 next? it was probably the best year of the 50s but nobody's attempted it yet.

I quite like the electronic disco extension of "Here Comes the Night," but more as an oddity than a pleasure. The chief pleasure--Brian's "Good Timin'"--is not a new song. What is new is the pop orchestration on "Lady Lynda." C+

got Van Halen tix?

>>127172438
who cares about the lyrics? How about that soulful saxophone and synth keyboard

A punk-disco fusion so uncompromised it will scare away fans of both genres, which share a taste for nasty girls that rarely extends to females past thirty with rat's-nest hair and last night's makeup on. The raw dance music isn't exactly original, and sometimes the offhandedness of the lyrics can be annoying, but I like this even when it's pro forma and/or sloppy, or maybe because it's pro forma and/or sloppy, like Dylan when he's good. "Why'd ya spit on my snatch?" indeed--the music's harshest account of a woman fending with the world. A-

>>127174639
YA GAW AN AN AN LIKKA BLOODSTAIN

Go Pirates!

Thankfully we cancelled that hateful bigot Anita Bryant two years ago. Now nothing can stop the gay community from having righ...why do I feel so sick lately and have weird blotches breaking out on my body?

>>127174755
my buddy is a hospital orderly and he's been seeing this odd condition breaking out among gay men there lately too. nobody knows what it is or what to call it though.

>>127174839
this is some kind of Christfag slop. please don't listen to it.

This is a breakthrough for Petty because for the first time the Heartbreakers (his Heartbreakers, this L.A.M.F. fan should specify) are rocking as powerfully as he's writing. But whether Petty has any need to rock out beyond the sheer doing of it--whether he has anything to say--remains shrouded in banality. Thus he establishes himself as the perfect rock and roller for those who want good--very good, because Petty really knows his stuff--rock and roll that can be forgotten as soon as the record or the concert is over, rock and roll that won't disturb your sleep, your conscience, or your precious bodily rhythms. B+

music was fucking dying as far back as this year and this thread proves it. early-mid 70's mog the late 70's so hard.

>>127175472
>music was fucking dying as far back as this year and this thread proves it. early-mid 70's mog the late 70's so hard.
what did he mean by this?

>>127175472
the industry really centralized in LA during the 70s, the 50s-60s era of decentralization and loads of regional/indie labels had ended. everything had turned into formula coke/hookers/rock star shit by this time.

>Hacket gone
>shorter songs
>lead single is a fucking love ballad
Genesisters...our response?

Has rock peaked here? Bon especially sounds incredible, can't wait to here him on the next record.

>>127170058
The writer Jonathan lethem said he could have replaced his head with that album cover at the time, he was 14, he wrote a short book about it

>>127169861
Yeah, had to carry pistol to the porn theater last time after I got robbed there. Would've made it out sooner if my shoe didn't get stuck on some jizz.

Well I'll be. The inventor of rock and roll hasn't made an album this listenable in fifteen years--no great new songs, but he's never written better throwaways (or covered "Ozymandias," either). Both Berry and Johnny Johnson--the piano half of his sound for a quarter of a century--have tricked up their styles without vitiating or cheapening them, and the result is a groove for all decades. Minor for sure, but what a surprise. B+

>>127170784
That dude from the CIA who can't remember when Kennedy got shot. Heard he's Reagan's running mate against Carter. Like anyone would vote for an actor lmao

>>127175717
this year marks the third and final time Chuck goes to jail, this time for tax evasion

I’m leaving bloated prog rock behind, but still need the sleaze. Check this shit out.

but i do kind of that music by this point had very much turned into coked up rock star shit and felt kinda hollow compared to ten years earlier

Neil Young just dropped the greatest record of all time. Things are looking up.

>>127175974
>but i do kind of
*do kind of agree I mean

What the fuck is this gay kitsch John Waters shit?

>>127169808
Something tells me that if they don't reunite soon, they never will.

I predict that in the mid-90s, a band from Chicago will release a song about the year 1979

It will probably sound like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aeETEoNfOg

>>127173244
It produced TWO!
(Dreaming and The Tide Is High)

>>127173615
How does this not conflict with her Christian beliefs?

This shit makes The Sex Pistols and Ramones sound like ELP

Songs about about falling in love with a prostitute, and killing yourself over a breakup?
Plus those awful vocals!
And they call themselves The Police?
Guaranteed that this will be the only album they'll ever make, and nobody will remember them by next year.
Such awful dreck!

Wow!
Good pop music is making a comeback.
These guys are gonna be the 80s version of The Beatles.
Capitol Records even revived the old "Rainbow Band" label just for them.
The Knack are going to be around for a long time. I just know it.

WHEN THE FUCK IS THE NEXT STEELY DAN ALBUM COMING OUT?

I like star wars bros

>>127178308
Maybe so but eventually she does the same thing Anita Bryant did but they can't do squat because she's black. lol.

>>127178301
Tide was from Autoamerican not ETTB.

>>127169796
Album of the year lad. The Clash have outdone everyone.
Punks has too many rules
>>127174893
Christgau's right on this one definitely a B+ don't know why he had to write the review like a psycho though

ozzy is going to die any day now
after keith richards obviously