Word: rockingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MOTHERS OF INVENTION: RUBEN & THE JETS (Verve). Ruben is a put-on and a takeoff. Founding fathers of rock dada, the Mothers have a picnic singing their own freshly minted Golden Oldies ("Jelly roll gum drop got my eyes on you," "I need it, I need it, 'cause it feels so fine"). The mock-sentimental collection is hilarious, at least for a while...
JEFFERSON AIRPLANE: BLESS ITS POINTED LITTLE HEAD (RCA). The Airplane may be coming down to earth. Recorded live for the first time, they change head music to body music as they repeat some old songs (Somebody to Lore, Plastic Fantastic Lover). Even so, acid rock is still the foundation of the Airplane, and the eleven-minute Bear Melt is a darkly mysterious throwback to their old surrealistic cerebrations...
...FLYING BURRITO BROTHERS (A & M) are musical siblings of The Byrds, to which two of the founding Burritos (Gram Parsons and Chris Hillman) once belonged. Like The Byrds, the Brothers favor a nasal country style of folk-rock, with twanging, Nashville-style guitar picking and close-knit, churchy harmonies. They bounce along with sardonic glee in an ode to draft dodging called My Uncle, and commemorate the sorrows of unrequited love in a mock-dour lament, Juanita...
...immediately. But "Johnny's Bar" is no oasis for gentle daydreamers. It is a foxhole of the color war-full of venomous nightmares, thwarted aspirations and trigger-quick tempers, a place where the napalm of hurt has seared each man's skin. The jukebox rumbles with hard rock; a dope-addled white simp serves drinks when he is not rattling drumsticks along the bar in a syncopated frenzy...
...seduction scene, for example, the foreground figures are backed up by cows and by trees and mountains in the far distance. For a hiking scene in the mist--the most illusory of conditions--rock outcrops in right foreground key the shot by giving us an immediate material object. Contrasting with the figures in medium distance against the far rock-ledge, all the objects together establish real space between them. For Stroheim there is no such thing as a general form or formal similarity between different objects. Each object it its material self, nor is there one kind of object...