Word: lyricisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York, New York, a hell- uv-a town, The Bronx is up but the Battery's down, And people ride in a hole in the ground. - Lyric from On the Town...
...much the same way that the early Rolling Stones, the Animals and the Beatles excelled in revisions of American rhythm and blues at a similar point in their careers. The Specials flirt with social commentary and take on racial injustice in Doesn 't Make It Alright, whose straightforward lyric and fine-tuned beat steer way wide of solemnity. Specials and Madness members even dress in good-humored approximation of the Kingston "rude boys" of the '60s, from the careless cuffs of their pegged pants up to the porkpie hats that sit on their heads like a street hustler...
Bass Player Roger Waters, who writes most of the band's music, has tempered his lyric tantrums somewhat for the new album and has worked up some melodies that are rather more lulling and insinuating than anything Floyd freaks are used to. Spacy and seductive and full of high-tech sound stunts, The Wall has a kind of smothering sonic energy that can be traced to The Dark Side of the Moon and even past that, to the band's early days on the psychedelic front lines. To fans, this continuity must be just as reassuring...
...When the lyrics are right, it's easier for me to write a tune than to bend over and tie my shoelaces," Richard Rodgers once remarked. Many composers would have been happy to tie Rodgers' shoes for him if only they had been able to fill them. He could write anything, and to order and to suit. When Oscar Hammerstein II handed him the lyric for Bali Ha'i, Rodgers studied it for a moment, then turned the typed page over, retired to the next room and five minutes later came back with the completed melody...
...Shosts--Lyric Stage, 54 Charles...