Word: rocks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...anthem, For Everyman, just as the last cut, Black and White, is at once a warning and a sign toward a new direction. "Time running out time running out/ For the fool still asking what his life is about," he sings, and since no one is better at lyrical rock introspection, it is plain that Browne has set himself a new course. This album is its chart, and though there are beautiful songs here, there is no smooth sailing. Each of the eight tunes on Lives in the Balance is about restlessness, rootlessness and desperation...
...FABULOUS THUNDERBIRDS: Tuff Enuff (CBS Associated Records). There is a long tradition of honky-tonking in American music that runs way back, considerably before rock, to the blues bars, jazz joints and love parlors where rag and Dixie got going from the turn of the century on. These days, call a group a bar band and you mean they play rock with no fuss and maybe a little sloppiness that can pass for funk. The Fabulous Thunderbirds, who made their first album in 1979 and have opened concerts for the Rolling Stones, still have the true chugalug spirit...
...world upside down." That cynicism, though, seems to be as outdated in Moscow as vodka-swigging parties. Said one elderly Muscovite: "It's good to have a nice young man like Gorbachev in charge." Indeed, the Soviet leader proved that underneath his aura of charm there is a rock-hard pragmatist and a firm adversary of the U.S. And he left no doubt whatever that he is, completely and confidently, in charge...
Directly following "Horses," "Live in Peace" is a lot like the cliched rock-ballads mourning Vietnam, disillusionment, and what square folks call "the '60s scene." Unlike banalities like Bryan Adams' "Summer of '69", though, "Peace" succeeds on the sincerity of Rodger's voice, as though the singer had gone through Viet Nam himself. Also Page makes his long awaited appearance: a clear long solo, something Page forgot during the Firm's '85 tour, comes slicing through here...
...Minister in three governments, leading the last through a grueling and unpopular period of economic austerity. This past October Mario Soares, 61, seemed washed up. His Socialist Party had just been defeated in parliamentary elections. When he announced his candidacy for President, polls showed his popular support at a rock-bottom 8%. Unfazed, Soares persisted...