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...here and A Rock and Roll Alternative, their second 1976 offering. It rocks steady like that Bad Company song. It rolls smooth through ballads as sentimental as a first love. And it is definitely one of the best alternatives around to that much-heralded and oh-so-obnoxious punk rock...
...What in the World," a love song, features liquid blips and electronically muted drums. It also boasts the hoarse background vocals of Iggy Pop, Bowie's personal Panic from Detroit. (Iggy, of Iggy and the Stooges, is famed on the punk-rock circuit for a favorite performance stunt: he would smash bottles on stage and fling himself upon them, frequently being hospitalized after gigs. Perhaps this explains the song about "Breaking Glass.") Despite the efforts of Iggy, Eno and company, "What in the World" is repetitive and uninteresting...
EVERYONE DEALS with the death the way they have to, the camp workers trying to hide it from the kids to whom the absence of the sappy punk Sam means nothing. Nobody understands it very well; worse yet, no one can communicate what they do feel. "It's hard," says Tyler to his more weathered colleague Brad, "feeling like opera in here, like high mass, and everything coming out cartoons...
...long way from being resolved. But there are already elements that trouble California lawyers. Says one: "To my way of thinking, if a judge doesn't show up for a contempt hearing against him and allows a contempt ruling against him, then why shouldn't any punk on the street violate...
...buttocks for no reason. They boarded buses and relieved all passengers of their valuables. They branched out to the Edsel Ford and the Lodge freeways, descending on stalled cars like army ants to rob, beat and rape terrified motorists. They devised a game called "Russian," in which one punk would knock on the door of a home while his confederates hid in the bushes; when the door opened, the whole mob would storm in, smashing furniture, beating the occupants and stealing. In late June, while partygoers at the Pontchartrain Hotel watched a fireworks display, 20 hoodlums swarmed in, snatching purses...