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+

>>127296364 (OP)
Randy Newman invented black metal corpse paint.

>>127296433
p. sure it's a KISS reference

Randy Newman honestly sucks.

>>127296638
No, Kiss were referencing Randy Newman.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1zJp_XFJJU

Randy was immersed in Hollywood for so long making settings to Sam Peckinpah flicks like this that it's no surprise he finally said fuck it and actually did movie music.