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...Okay, it's star time. Riff-raff, set the sonic transducer on program eight. prg And secure all levels at zero...relax... you won't find Earth people quite the easy mark you imagine...this sonic transducer is, I suppose, some kind of audio, vibratory physio-molecular transport device...
...passionately mourns "his baby walking out the door." But when Browne subtly rejects his lover ("I'm going back inside and turning out the light, and I'll be in the dark but you'll be out of sight," the well-crafted message is drowned in a guitar riff. Evidently, producer Jon Landau--also responsible for Bruce Springsteen's commercial selling-of-the-soul album, Born to Run--deserves the blame for this confusing melange of lyrics and music...
...Earl Slick's keening feedback on the beginning of "Station To Station" notwithstanding), and there is little of the musical richness of earlier albums. There aren't even any strings or saxes. What Bowie has done is to concentrate his energies on creating various succinct and catchy integrations of riff and lyric. Sounds like Elton John but it's much rawer and more entrancing, particularly in the choruses, in which he chants enigmatically, "Run for the shadows/In these golden years" or wails his plea, "Stay? That's what I meant...
...Chevy commercial was just dumb--there were others that were plain offensive. A Borkum-Riff pipe tobacco commercial showed a blonde guy stomping the snow from his boots, entering a house, taking off his coat, and being welcomed by a beautiful blonde woman who proceeds to stuff and light his pipe for him. The voiceover says something like: "In Sweden, a man has to take all the comfort he can get to make it through the winter. Borkum-Riff, a lusty smoke...
Even Borkum-Riff's blatant sexism paled in comparison with that of Chris Schenkel, who ABC had announcing the figure skating and ice dancing events. Schenkel commented on the great Soviet skater Irina Rodnina: "Look at the ice shavings in her beautiful black hair." Or after the skating expert calls the skaters "Powerful! These people are powerhouses!", Schenkel says, "She's the cutest thing you'll see. Not too long ago, she was a tiny little thing, but now she's grown up and is a match for her partner...