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Wayward is the way into America’s heart. Dartboard and millions of others jam to 50 Cent, whose own, ahem, rap sheet includes dealing drugs and receiving nine bullet wounds. Ratings confirm that America’s favorite father is none other than rocker Ozzy Osbourne, whose own history includes biting the head off an innocent chicken and nearly killing his darling wife. Even Backstreet Boy A.J. “Squeaky” McLean spent some time in a rehabilitation clinic for alcohol abuse...
...launches into a list of fellow punk comrades whom he is eager to play with, but singles out one scruffy young rocker in particular...
...half minutes of crunching guitar and vivid lyrics which culminate in the band chanting “long, dark blues” over a snarling guitar solo. The memorable refrain shows up again in “John Henry Split My Heart,” another epic rocker that ties up the album’s thematic cycle of hardship and loss in a turbulent, changing world...
...while Marilyn Manson, who once seemed a suitable heir to the Ramones (or at least Alice Cooper) turns The KKK Took My Baby Away into a bland bit of Goth melodrama. The Ramones' songbook demands energy and wit. Rancid gets the energy prize, flying through Sheena Is a Punk Rocker an inconceivable 58 seconds faster than the Ramones did, while Bono drops into a drolly perfect growl on U2's Beat on the Brat. But it's Kiss, the least credible contributing act (and the act that cares the least about credibility), that delivers the only great cover, imbuing...
...credit card, and I have never downloaded." If it's true that Townshend, 57, was sexually abused as a child, that could help explain his best music, which reached into reserves of fear and rage that many other rock musicians only pretend to possess. As both a head-banging rocker and the beseeching man-child who wrote, "See me, feel me/Touch me, heal me"--for Tommy, about a boy who has been molested--was Townshend making a lifelong reply to some primal outrage...