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Word: rockers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Pick of the Holiday Season | 12/18/1978 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Nothing Like Nihilism | 11/28/1978 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Nowhere Over the Rainbow | 10/30/1978 | See Source »

...guess you gotta have them around," Joseph A. Incagnoli '80, a punk rocker and non-clubbie, said, "they pay for my education...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: From Pig to Porc: The Changing World of Final Clubs | 10/30/1978 | See Source »

...passages and solid instrumental work, is a puzzling piece of music. It has almost everything, from a harmless love song called "August Day," written by Sara Allen (the subject of "Sara Smile" and a constant Hall and Oates companion and contributor), to a poor attempt at a Phil Spector rocker, called "The Last Time." There's a great orchestral work in "I Don't Wanna Lose You," a fine tune which may do well as a pop single; but the range and uneveness of the album as a whole make it almost impossible to label the work as a success...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: Potpourri on the Ledge | 10/18/1978 | See Source »

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