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...reservoir of hatred and bitterness than anyone in popular music, or even the Viet Cong, driving him, they say, to compose madly into the night, compressing his rage into song after song, until this: music with a pulse sustained by passion and fear, energy driven by emotion, not (hello Mick Jagger) cocaine. And the tunes deliver. The glory of Get Happy!! is that Elvis has composed 18 fresh, interesting, accessible but not uncomplicated melodies, and has, with true artistry, wedded their substance perfectly to their sound. It may be his best album. Certainly, it surpasses the swampy jingles of Armed...
...nation's 4 million Boy Scouts? And who better to fashion a contemporary look than Couturier Oscar de la Renta? Displayed in New York last week, the de la Renta uniforms were indeed eye-catching. So was Jerry Hall, blond friend of Rock Singer Mick Jagger, who modeled a den-mother outfit that was guaranteed to persuade young men to sign up for adoption, if not Scouting...
...album, Exile on Main Street, far sooner than any Sex Pistols product. Like the Stones' masterpiece, London Calling has its longueurs; but its two discs conjure the end of the '70s as unmistakably as Exile did their beginning. The title track does so best. Over the ominous bleating of Mick Jones's slightly off-key guitar and a despondent, resigned chorus that drops off into silence, Joe Strummer launches into a chronicle of the new barbarism...
...Rolling Stones, Sticky Fingers (Rolling Stones Records, 1971). Great lyric flights and glorious gutter ballads, from Moonlight Mile to Brown Sugar. This is bloodthirsty rock 'n' roll from the Mick Jagger-Keith Richard period...
...frets of your intestines; the way a song like "Sweet Virginia" talks about the shit on your shoes, there is shit on your shoes, shit on everybody's shoes, but you can scrape it off with your records. It's the redemptive quality of rock and roll. Mick and Keith brought the world rock and roll, and if the Stones ruined the lives of people like Sanchez, they saved the youth of millions of kids, kids doing homework to the time of a Spiro Agnew watch till they heard "Brown Sugar...