Word: rottenness
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...measure of irony in the Pistols' being anointed to the iconic pantheon of a genre they had decried as fatuously boring and had aimed to destroy. Still, the actual band-drummer Paul Cook, guitarist Steve Jones, original bass player Glen Matlock and infamously thorny frontman, John Lydon (a.k.a. Johnny Rotten)-perceive the invitation as long overdue, asserting that they were the only people McLaren swindled, by deviously dividing their loyalties and dissolving the band at the tail end of their acrimonious debut North American tour...
...Though gloriously jarring in its time, the Sex Pistols' lone studio album, 1977's Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols, sounds relatively conventional today in comparison to the countless legions of acolytes. Rife with Steve Jones' signature beefy guitar riffs and Rotten's venomous social commentary, Never Mind The Bollocks is rightly hailed as a classic that helped shake rock'n'roll out of its shaggy doldrums, re-inserting a palpable whiff of danger and defiance into an art-form grown shallow and pompous. Never mind the narrow mores of tongue-clicking punk rock purists...
...trio may hail from Southern California, but their homage-packed soul songs prove they left their hearts in Motown. The Tonyies, who are all in their 20s, evoke past greats such as the Jackson Five with vibrant vocals and melodies, but they never settle for mere imitation. Radio is rotten with musical hacks who fake the funk with computer- generated beats, but the Tonyies are a real band, with real instruments, who have succeeded in bringing the art of R.-and-B. songwriting back to the future...
When Farmer arrived in Rwanda, the Minister of Health called a meeting and asked him where P.I.H.'s doctors wanted to set up shop. The minister in charge of HIV/AIDS, who knew Farmer's work, answered for him: "Just put them in the worst, most rotten part of Rwanda, and they'll flourish...
...they belong to a union, workers have traditionally had the protection of award minimum wages that keep pace with national prosperity. So the support for the current system comes from a deep sense of fairness towards the industrially weak, low-paid young people and those who have rotten luck at work...