Word: lyrical
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...Called Lifehouse, the piece was intended to be a kind of environmental theater event. Some of Townshend's best songs were written originally for Lifehouse: Baba O'Riley, with its synthesizer line running like cold water down the spine, mixing with an old Irish fiddle reel and the memorable lyric refrain, "Don't cry/ Don't raise your eye/ It's only teen-age wasteland"; the aching, almost elegant poignancy of The Song Is Over and Pure and Easy. All these songs concerned music and the compact of trust between audience and artist. As compositions they enhanced and extended...
...Depression South on the T.O.B.A. (Theater Owners Booking Agency) circuit. Fortunately, there is precious little vaudeville in One Mo' Time!and no imitations of greats like Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and Sweet Mama Stringbean, who made their early fame on the circuit. The setting is New Orleans' Lyric Theater. A backstage dressing-room drama, replete with the trials and tribulations of show biz and some seething personal rivalries, constitutes the subplot picture frame for the evening...
Fleetwood Mac, a band whose average lyric has the approximate weight and consistency of a summer breeze, have become the smash success story of the late '70s. They even outpoint the Eagles; their last album, 1977's Rumours, has rung up sales of something like 15 million copies. Their new album, Tusk, is two records' worth of prime Mac material; they may even be cueing it up in Dorset right...
Tusk, in fact, seems simultaneously like a lover's catechism and a souped-up Tibetan prayer for the dead. It features some phenomenal drumming by Fleetwood and some tantalizing lyric fragments ("Why don't you tell me what's going on? . . . / Why don't you tell me who's on the phone?") set beside 120 members of the University of Southern California's Trojan Marching Band, blasting away to create an unlikely mixture of mystery, humor and the slightest hint of menace. Tusk is the penultimate song on side four. The album ends with...
...eleven. The 1979 list of winners is notable for several reasons. For once, the often controversial Peace Prize went to an individual beyond criticism or calumny: Mother Teresa, 69, who has spent a selfless lifetime working in the slums of Calcutta. The prize for literature went to the Greek lyric poet Odysseus Elytis. The twin economics prizes went to men whose concern has been the problems of the developing world...