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...P.U.N.K. Girl" is about a supercool but rather repressed "girl" (no age given) who, Amelia Fletcher wishes, would act as "punk" as she makes Fletcher feel: "P is for the painful way/You make me feel some days/U is for you turn me on..." "Atta Girl" gives a disco-flavored backbeat to congratulations for a girl who has just told off an unwanted male admirer: "I'm not yours," she says," and never will be now/You've shown me how you act/When I'm out with another..." And "Hearts and Crosses" begins, true to its title, as a love story, then...
Compared to Heavenly's previous records, the striking thing here is the set of themes, and the departures (organ, backbeat, backing vocals) from normal Heavenly music that accompany the new themes; compared to records by anyone else, the striking thing about these tunes will still be, precisely, the tunes. While Amelia Fletcher is saying she doesn't need another guy, many a listener will be imagining she, or he, doesn't need any other record, so magnificent are the melodies on this one. K Records' domestic re-release of these two singles makes a perfect complement, or compliment...
Then R.E.M., that rhythmically cerebral band from Athens, Ga., released Out of Time, which shot to the No. 1 slot in a brisk eight weeks. And Isaak had his first runaway hit. The DiVinyls, an Aussie group with a tough backbeat and a wicked sense of humor, have their own smash in I Touch Myself. The Black Crowes, a not entirely holy amalgam of the Byrds and the Allman Brothers, also found their album, Shake Your Money Maker, in the Top 10. The Mallomar metalists, Queensryche, got themselves near the chart top with Silent Lucidity, a tune about spelunking through...
...Broadway is a sacred remnant of the musical at its mid-century peak -- a fusion of wit, precision, melody and high spirits -- that an aging generation of theater lovers miss terribly and want back. "We are in an era of high school production numbers and arias set to a backbeat," says Jule Styne, who wrote songs for five Robbins musicals. "A lot of people will see this show and realize what they've missed." Co-producer Emanuel Azenberg must hope so too. "Shows that have been successful lately are just not for me," he says. "Then I see the suite...
...album hits its peak when Reed assays the extremes of his emotional range. "Temporary Thing," with its high-pitch backbeat and religious-chant vocals, delves into Reed's usual sphere of bad relationships, bad karma, and bad moods. It isn't pleasant, but it is pure and passionate, and it leaves us with Reed's optimistic message that even the worst of things is just a temporary thing...