Word: songs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Time Waits For No One" and "Fingerprint File" derive from "You Can't Always Get What You Want" and "Can't You Hear Me Knocking," respectively. Both would be passable if not for interminable fade-outs that stretch each song past the six-minute mark. "Short and Curlies" is an inexcusably lame song, whose main reason for inclusion would appear to be the phrase "She's got you by the balls." The Stones have felt obliged to stick a couple of dirty words on each of their last three records. By now, the irreverence of this habit is boring...
...Besides the title cut, the best of these are "Dance Little Sister" and "Ain't Too Proud to Beg," a surprising and crude remake of one of the Temptations' greatest hits. The success of this cut suggests that maybe the Stones, like the Band, might benefit from taking a song-writing hiatus and cutting an album composed primarily of other people's material, as they did at the beginning of their career...
...Brian's Song. A television movie repeat about Gale Sayers and his friendship with Brian Piccolo, a teammate on the Chicago Bears who died of cancer. Absolutely compelling story. Ch. 5, 8:30 p.m., 1 1/2 hours...
...details of the murders secret, to be used as "keys" to test the truth of possible confessions and accusations. Yet one bit of suppressed evidence would almost certainly have broken the case at once if it had been released. The words "Healter Skelter," a misspelling of a Beatles' song title, had been written on the LaBianca refrigerator, and there were scores of people in the L.A. area who could have assigned the phrase to Charles Manson...
Towards the end of the song, Anderson can't resist mentioning the chaotic state of the world and the pleasure of the king, who day after day, flips the switch as play is resumed. The track is well constructed, beginning with flute, guitar and sundry animal growlings hinting at a safari into the darkest depths of Africa. The beat is promptly established allowing the glass-like quality of Barre's guitar to cut through the string section's forceful countermelody...