Word: songs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...funny thing about Mike was that he gave everything he was doing his full concentration--whether scaling the Widener Library walls or reading Samuel Johnson. One night, he and Glennwoke me up at 4:30 a.m. with their discussion inthe common room on Eliot's "The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock...
Whose narrative is hard to say. No one is credited with writing the book. The wry and suave lyrics are attributed to Don Black, who was Lloyd Webber's main collaborator on Song and Dance, and to Charles Hart, whose words were the weakest part of Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera. Major contributions were surely made by the composer and by director Trevor Nunn, and the storytelling is also enhanced by Maria Bjornson's dreamlike designs. They shift fluidly from a naturalistic mansion courtyard to a mountain range at sunset conveyed by just a jagged line of reddish...
...style. Sal (Danny Aiello), the Italian American who runs the corner pizzeria, brags that the locals "grew up on my food." His delivery boy, Mookie (Lee), doles out advice while dodging duties to his girlfriend and their child. Radio Raheem (Bill Nunn) keeps the block pulsing to the rap song, Fight the Power, that bleats from his boom box. By day's end, though, the neighborhood has erupted. Sal and Raheem start fighting about the loud music; the cops arrive and, in the struggle, kill Raheem; Mookie throws a trash can through his employer's window; the place goes...
Take for example, the album's first single, "I'm the Type of Guy." Who does LL think he is? Adonis? Valentino? Wade Boggs? The song makes LL sound like the greatest male specimen ever to wear a Kangol. Give it up, Cool...
...same goes for "Big Ole Butt," which, you guessed it, tells about the Continuing Adventures of Mr. Sex. The message in the song is clear: Sex solves all the problems of a horny, young man. Thanks for clearing that up, Dr. Cool...