Word: rocker
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...make you smile at the composer's easygoing pleasure. Yes, the lyrics can turn smarmy, and yes, the mu sic sounds pretty contented. But McCart ney slips in a mickey every now and again (as in Hi, Hi, Hi), and if he is far from a resolute rocker, he has little serious competition as a pre-eminent pop composer...
...Stewart: Time Passages (Arista). Easygoing voyages into the fantastical by a British rocker who treads lightly. May be too lightly; but songs like A Man for All Seasons (yes, it's about Sir Thomas More) and the title cut have a wistful, uninsistent delicacy that will mightily appeal to any college sophomores in the family as they fret over their first submission to the literary magazine...
...process, they'll be missing a lot of music that's powerful and unique. Aside from the infectious "Jocko Homo," Devo's album includes one song, "Mongoloid," that's a fine punk-influenced rocker, and another, "Space Junk," that's in the grand David Bowie tradition of futuristic disaster songs...
...comic writer, and soon Nipsey Russell, whose rusty tin man is easily the best characterization of the film, sings an oozy and oleaginous Smalls ballad, Slide Some Oil to Me. To ward the end, awful Evillene, the Wicked Witch of the West (Mabel King), rumbles out a menacing hard-rocker, Don't No body Bring Me No Bad News...
...guess you gotta have them around," Joseph A. Incagnoli '80, a punk rocker and non-clubbie, said, "they pay for my education...