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...TRAGIC END of the late Sid Vicious could not have come at a worse time for the Ramones. In his inimitable fashion, Vicious, ever the loser, managed with his fatal taste for smack and violence to sour promoters around the country on anything that smells remotely like punk...
...Ramones, with their new album Road to Ruin, certainly reek of the back alleys and cheap drugs that keep them well on the punk side of the new wave. But if Vicious's last fling hides Road in the wreckage it will be quite a loss, for this latest release is the perfect album to let loose--loud--on your turntable for those moments when Fleetwood Mac just can't soothe your soul...
...YORK--Sid Vicious, the British punk rock star charged with murdering his girlfriend, died yesterday after an apparent heroin overdose, police said yesterday...
Behind all this dramatic song-writing lay anger--not a punk's stick-your-tongue-out anger at society, but the very personal anger of a man's failures with women. Track after track railed on about the fumbling, fear and deception that, at least for Costello, no "sexual revolution" ever relieved. On This Year's Model, another figure crept up behind Elvis the victim of women--Elvis the victim of corporate espionage, electronic surveillance, loss of privacy, depersonalization; Elvis the inhabitant...
With three records to his name, each a masterpiece, only the most prejudiced or uninformed listener will dismiss Costello as "just another new-waver" or "a boring punk." He's new wave only chronologically, and Armed Forces makes use of a diversity of styles most performers today are too incompetent or unimaginative to handle. If he can hold his paranoia in check, and prevent it from freezing all humanity out of his music, Elvis Costello may well go on to dominate the next decade the way his namesake dominated the '50s. At least until 1984, that...