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...accomplished so much," Triumph the Insult Comic Dog (aka (Robert Smigel) told Janeane Garofalo and Sam Seder, hosts of Air America Radio's "Majority Report," on the network's first anniversary last Thursday. "A year ago today we had a tyrannical president leading us into a costly war. And look at today. The war's going much better...
...Sensations, 1975: Trying to be a hard-core Emmanuelle, this bit of Euro-decadence by Alberto Ferro (aka Lasse Braun) featured Penthouse Pet Brigitte Maier. She's quite a pretty lass, but doesn't get to do much more than watch until the end, when she accedes to the climactic orgy scene. Seven acolytes of various genders crowd around her, matching their protuberances to her orifices, until she is nearly smothered in closeup. Cut to the seven slowly withdrawing from their feast, and, presto, Maier has disappeared. That's the end -except for the closing credits, where we find that...
...aka The Shouty Track” bops around in punk textures, with menacing chords and occasional screams, and is marginally enjoyable for itself, but does little to rekindle the spirit of punk that it so ostensibly reaches...
...aka Come Down On Me,” the album’s best track and almost a stand-out anthem, perhaps does the best job of this, perfectly capturing the Reagan years’ excess, pride, and belief in the future through a constantly moving synth line with periodic booms from lower registers...
...aka Stay With You” is another of the album’s best numbers, with a lilting melody built upon a warm and soothing melody of voices. Listening to the track suddenly makes the listener see in Technicolor and imagine some particularly sappy European comedy, like the best music of similarly-inclined U.K. band St. Etienne. Voice enters only very late in the mix, and slowly the lines “I wanna stay with you / for the rest of my life” meander in such a manner as to somehow make them not seem trite...