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...first side closes with "True Confessions," taking its title and cue from one of those schlock-romance magazines, but transcending them, as the images cut through the melodic hypnotism: "You keep rollin' around my head/like a magnum that repeats." As the song fades, the drummer pummels an incessant jungle-cum-Bo Diddley beat, the guitars chime in, and then suddenly the musical avalance cascades out of hearing. This portends of things to come. The first side is tame, love-centered pop; this closing hints of the underlying energy to surface later...
...Crime Watch in Dade County, whose members call police when spotting a crime and "armed with pencils and notebooks ... jot down details." You may prefer to have a notebook by your bed when some drugged-up nut kicks down your door, but I'll stick to my .357 magnum...
...looking for the normal gunslamming, Dirty Harry with a .44 magnum taking aim at the streets of San Francisco, you won't find it in Bronco Billy. What you will find is a hard luck story--with a plot as an excuse for satire...
...country people -romped and shouted in the streets. At his first foreign press conference last week, Doe strode into a ballroom at the executive mansion wearing a wide-brimmed army ranger hat, freshly pressed fatigues and combat boots. He carried a ceremonial sword under his arm and a .357 Magnum revolver on his hip. Then, in a halting voice, Doe read a prepared statement in which he repeated his earlier charges of corruption against the former regime. "When things begin to get on the right track," he promised, "we, the men and women in arms, will return to the barracks...
Warren Zevon (Asylum, 1976). If a Black Mask writer studied Stravinsky, turned to rock and set down his hard-boiled romances on a piano played by shooting the keys with a .44 Magnum, he'd sound a little like Warren Zevon. Just a little. Rock of rare recklessness and unguarded sentiment...