Word: rioting
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...warden said, "Come out with your hands up in the air. "If you don't stop this riot, you all gonna get the chair." Scarface Jones said, "It's too late to quit. "Pass the dynamite, 'cause the fuse is lit." There's a riot goin' on ... in cell block...
Those were fighting words in 1954. Riot in Cell Block #9, performed by the Los Angeles quartet the Robins, is vintage rhythm and blues by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, the songwriting team who, as much as anybody, invented rock 'n' roll. To imagine '50s pop music without their propulsive tunes-Hound Dog, Kansas City, Jailhouse Rock, Searchin', Love Potion #9, There Goes My Baby, Love Me, Yakety Yak-is pretty much to imagine the '40s. As writer-producers, impresarios on call to Elvis Presley, the Coasters, the Drifters and many more, Leiber and Stoller were the prime concocters...
...oldies package: Tommy, Leader of the Pack and, in London, compendiums of songs by Buddy Holly, Barry Manilow and ABBA. Smokey Joe's Cafe is one such package, snazzy and tightly wrapped. It's just three decades late. With Leiber and Stoller's help, there could've been a riot goin' on-on Broadway...
...fill the stands. We'd blow the opposition fans out the door. Cambridge police would be directing traffic to the game in riot gear. (It happened Tuesday night when the women's basketball championship was free...
...songs which Rancid played from their self-titled debut album were on the whole less successful and less memorable. One of the best tunes of the evening, however, was "I Wanna Riot" which is currently only available on an Epitaph compilation CD, and as the b-side to "Roots Radical." A slow ska tune, "I Wanna Riot" came as a welcome relief to the slamming intensity of the rest of the show. The amazing thing was that the audience seemed to need it more than the band, which exhibited no signs of fatigue, even after racing through song after song...