Word: sha
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jerusalem was unusually bitter. The moderate newspaper Al Quds declared that there was no difference between last year's massacre of some 700 Arabs by Lebanese Christian militiamen in the outskirts of Beirut and "the massacres now being perpetrated by Syria and its Palestinian helpers." Another paper, Al Sha'ab, mocked the Syrian mobilization of reserves, asking, "If you have something serious to fear, why are you still bombarding the Palestinian camps...
...torts? Flying briefs? What can the other trappings be? Well, "Ooh-sha-la-la." And "Ah-a-ah-a-a-ha." And, inextremis, after all other ancient echoes of Top 40 radio have been exhausted, there is always that lonely, sibilant warbling that sounds like a dance-band leader whistling inside a diving bell...
...Want!" adds a few "Sha, la, la"s and some gonzo, fuzzed-out Fender-bending by Keith Streng, and one forgets that almost 20 years separate the "Tones from the Barbarians, Paul Revere and the Raiders, and? and the Mysterians--from which they claim their musical heritage. Thus, some cry, the Fleshtones aren't revolutionary--legated the Kinks and Rod Stewart to embarrassing obsolescence and has embraced every now British import as a heaven-sent message...
...every Human League "Fascination" (1983) there is a Standells "Dirty Water" (1966) or a? and the Mysterians "96 Tears" (1966). And for every Duran Duran there is a Fleshtones to remind us what rock 'n' roll is supposed to be about--that is, cheesy Farfisas, three chords, a few "Sha, la, la'"s, and at least...