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Word: clubland (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pete Thomas's snare lightly searing your cranium. Trust contains, however, two clunkers: "Different Finger," another of Elvis's dreary, patronizing, untranscendent country numbers, and "Shot With His Own Gun," a song for your daddy with a tune too feeble to accommodate the tragic sourfulness Elvis pours into it. "Clubland" is diverting but stupid, with a deadly, unexpansive chorus that endlessly rehashes a bottom-of-the-barrel pattern of notes. Which leaves, among other things, a nice, tinny, almost Brechtian exhortation to immorality in "Fish 'n' Chips Paper" (ironic, of course, but, unlike Brecht, pessimistic), and a delicate number called...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Something of a Middlebrow | 4/2/1981 | See Source »

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