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...Illusion II. This time out, the Gunners, while clinging to their trademark bitch-slapping posturing, have also introduced such engaging new subjects as bondage, the lure of homicide and the pleasures of drug-induced comas. They offer a song called Pretty Tied Up, accompanied by a drawing in the lyric sheet of a naked, bound and blindfolded woman. They also graphically invite the editor and publisher of Spin magazine, Bob Guccione Jr., to perform oral sex on the Guns N' Roses' irrepressible lead singer, W. Axl Rose...
Loesser the Hollywood lyricist was Mr. Do-It-All. He wrote torchy stuff for gangster dramas and sarong songs for Dorothy Lamour. When collaborating, Loesser usually devised the lyric first, along with a "dummy tune" to suggest tempo and rhythm. Jimmy McHugh could compose a long, languid melodic line for Let's Get Lost because Loesser had compressed the intensity of new passion into the narrowest meter: "Let's defrost/ In a romantic mist./ Let's get crossed/ Off everybody's list...
...time to chill. Here's a representative lyric from Efil4zaggin, the latest album by the rap group N.W.A. (Niggers with Attitude): "This is the bitch that did the whole crew/ She did it so much we made bets on who the ho would love to go through . . ./ And she lets you videotape her/ And if you got a gang of niggers the bitch'll let you rape...
...POPOVA RETROSPECTIVE, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Though she died at 35 in 1924, Popova is considered one of the leading artists of the Russian avant-garde. She was a determined painter with a passionate sense of the edge where formal research bursts into sparks and arpeggios of lyric feeling. June 23 through...
Although the three altos lacked a name, they decided to perform Ryan's music in public. After pondering names such as "Hair Club for Women," Ryan christened the group Wild Women and Cinnamon, after a feminist peace group called "Wild Wimmin for Peace" and a song lyric which used the word "cinnamon." Says Ryan, "People don't get the "wild" because we're mellow--Wild Women and Cinnamon on Sedatives would be more appropriate. One of my roommates in protest only calls us Women and Cinnamon. We're like the [Grateful] Dead or the [Rolling] Stones, but our name goes...