Word: punker
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Costello loves to play the mad inventor, mixing exotic rhythms, jazzy melodies and baffling metaphors into songs that dazzle for their strangeness rather than any feeling they convey. But Costello is at his best when he kicks back and reverts to the witty post-punker he was in 1978, a bespectacled dork with a chip on his shoulder and an uncanny knack for turning out catchy tunes. This album is so much fun, and Costello's best in a long time, because of how often he returns to that clever post-punker mode. Instead of seeming dated, these moments feel...
Toward the final third of the set, Rancid started to slump. They hit rock bottom with a song about a kid punker who is misunderstood by his parents. It was slow, boring and trite. Fortunately, the slump was short-lived. The crowd needed something pretty exciting to re-ignite it, and got it in the form of the hit single "Salvation." The song generated a furious energy, which was carried through to the end of the set with songs like the oh-so-touching love ballad "Gunshot," and one of the evening's best, "Sidekick." "Sidekick" describes sheer male fantasy...
Hair alone, on Broadway and through its many "tribes," or traveling companies, launched an army of performers who went on to mold the culture of the past two decades. Among them: the proto-punker Meat Loaf, Donna Summer, the Disco Queen of the late '70s, and Diane Keaton, who neatly embodied the postrevolutionary woman in Annie Hall. All ancestries link...
...that engenders crime. Others accuse the courts, specifically judges whose views were shaped in the 1960s and '70s and who continue to hand out minimal, sometimes absurdly lenient, sentences. In one notable case last year a young man was stabbed to death outside a disco in Hilversum by a punker. The 23- year-old killer was given four years in prison, two of them suspended...
...EVENING produced a number of juicy punker bon mots. Group activities: "Like, the thing to do a couple years ago was to go to somebody's house and make weapons. But don't get me wrong dude, I never killed anybody...