Word: songs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Finally, Thursday through Saturday, the New Theatre on Holyoke Street features a group that makes Kiss look like performers in a grade school Christmas play. The Tubes are synonomous with the word outrageous. Their lead singer goes under the name "Quay Lude" and song titles run along the lines of "Mondo Bondage" and "White Punks on Dope." Draw your own conclusions...
...finest vocal on the album, in the song "Meeting Across The River," capsules the false bravado of a Jersey hood asking his friend Eddie for a ride through the tunnel to New York City, where his connection is waiting. But the effect is almost ruined by the lilting trumpet accompaniment, which would be perfect for sitting-on-the-front-porch-swing-sniffing-the-honey-suckle-with-yer-sweetie, but here, makes mush of the vocal. The longest song on the record, "Jungleland," also suffers from over-orchestration: a string section introduces the central piano theme and channels the song...
...namely, that Jon Landau decided to take time off from his Rolling Stone column and make Springsteen a superstar. Hence, presumably, Landau's ideas of what great rock'n roll is distorted Springsteen's gutsy music. Actually, however, there is no significant stylistic difference between the title song (the only one without Landau) and the four other hot-rod rockers on the album. After all, Bruce Springsteen wrote and arranged and co-produced the album; blame for inconsistency and tightness goes...
...wind, so Mary climb in... and the wailing nostalgia of "Backstreets," perhaps the album's best song, intersects universal lost childhood...
...only failures on Prisoner in Disguise are two tedious songs by John David Souther, who apparently thinks that if you make a song long, slow, and wordy, people will think it's profound or at least sensitive. But these two--"Silver Blue" and the title song--are simply boring: in singing them, Ronstadt almost defies the listener to pay attention...