Word: punks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expression turned to one of total seriousness, her own pride stretching to its grittiest with the extension of her jab, and another, backing her sparring partner (who maintained the most tolerant of all smiles) into a corner, jab, jab, thump. "Beat the shit out of "em" a punk yelled. And she split before she could get too serious...
...guess you gotta have them around," Joseph A. Incagnoli '80, a punk rocker and non-clubbie, said, "they pay for my education...
MACHEATH HAS TO be a man of the world who knows how to survive, who's grown a little shabby, a little scruffy, perhaps, but who keeps his sense of style along with his white gloves. Allen C. Kennedy's Mack the Knife sounds like a two-bit punk who got lost in Flatbush and somehow ended up in London, 1830. It's not necessarily a wrong-headed interpretation, but it needs strength, consistency, and a sense of Macheath's age--and Kennedy gives it none of these...
...ends. The alluring lead singer, Deborah Harry, has been accompanied by a different number of male musicians on each of the three albums the group has put together in the last 18 months. From the very beginning Blondie didn't sound at all like a punk band. Those rhythm guitar chords stolen from the New York Dolls and half-spoken Lou Reed vocals weren't where they should have been. Instead Blondie propelled its music with a style from late-'50s and early-'60s rock and roll, most noticeably with a cheap, thin organ sound which will remind those with...
Parallel Lines, Blondie's latest, exhibits a new security and ease the group has developed in the last six months. Every song on it shows that Harry and her musicians aren't confused anymore. They drop any connection they had with the stream of deranged, safety-pin punk; and the band no longer seems self-conscious about borrowing from the '50s. One song on the album, "11:59," is perfect: a wonderful mix of lyrics that sound like they have meaning and a hard-driving pop tune that doesn't wear out after three hearings...