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...carried on the family tradition, going public with her personal tribulations. Anyone familiar with the author's bright, acerbic articles (Crazy Salad, Scribble Scribble) knows the tropes. As before, there is the Johnny Carson Comparative: She "was so stingy she once tried to sell a used nylon stocking to a mugger"; the Descriptive Thrust: "His coffee tastes like a very spicy old foot"; the Confessional Counterpunch: "I would imagine [my husband's] funeral . .. and how soon I could start dating...
Lightness is the key to Red All Over, which shares with current releases The Nylon Curtain by Billy Joel and Nebraska by Bruce Springstcer an emphasis on the lunacy and pathos of daily American life. In "work song," strong vocals power an emotionless ballad which is somehow Russian-flavored, evoking the Brothers Karamazov singing capitalist work hymns. The music is effective and lively, the repeated lyrics "I've got a quite important job with many things to do my stenographer is pretty and my wallpaper is new" come across with just the right amount of subdued pride to make "work...
...Records Top-Ten Albums [from Rolling Stone magazine, February 10] Album/Artist Coop Discount Records Strawberries Business as Usual/Men at Work $5.49 7.49 7.29 Built for Speed/Stray Cats 6.89 7.49 7.29 Get Nervous/Pat Benatar 5.49 7.49 7.29 H2O/Hall and Oats 5.67 7.99 7.47 The Nylon Curtain/Billy Joel 5.49 -- 7.29 Midnight Love/Marvin Gaye 6.89 7.49 7.29 Night and Day/Joe Jackson 5.67 5.99 7.49 Hello, I Must Be Going/Phil Collims 5.49 7.49 6.29 Coda/Led Zeppelin 5.49 5.99 6.29 Thriller/Michael Jackson...
Elvis Costello and the Attractions: Imperial Bedroom (Columbia). A funny valentine from a man who is still delighted to be one of rock's most idiosyncratic talents. Billy Joel: The Nylon Curtain (Columbia). Joel's longest reach and his strongest shot...
Both new records are also enjoying some significant commercial success. Nebraska is No. 3 of the Top Ten albums this week, and The Nylon Curtain is not far behind at No. 9. The point is not that the albums are in competition with each other, although both are on the same label, Columbia, and Bruce has frequently, and unfairly, been used as a stick to deliver a few critical raps on Billy's noggin. Much more interesting is the fact that, in parlous economic times, when the record business is suffering heavy sales deprivation and audiences are supposed...