Word: sound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...word can summarize these posts and their seekers: RESUME. Nowhere else will you find the largest collection of resume-stuffers in the world than on the ballots for these two elected posts. Class Marshal and the council are perfect: they require little time, but they sound like examples of leadership and responsibility, just what is needed for a job interview or that old fellowship application...
...many of the songs follow the Stones pattern of taking an unadorned riff, establishing a groove with it and playing it for a long time without really taking it anywhere or building upon it. But what riffs! Keith plays as well as he always has, generating that unmistakable fuzztone sound that is his alone, and that redeems any flaws the songs may have...
...last Rolling Stone to release a solo album. The efforts from the other four Stones have been--speaking charitably--forgettable. In contrast, the high caliber of Talk proves what many listeners have suspected all along--that Richards (and not, say, Mick Jagger) is the primary architect of the Stones sound we know and love...
...Pensive Winos seems an appropriate name, considering how they hoot and holler in the background of some cuts like the world's oldest frat band. Though they sound deceptively loose, they were tight enough to record many of Talk's songs in a single take. The result is the spontaneous, raw sound that marks the Stones' best work, a sound one has come not to expect from their recent albums or solo projects...
...most of the songs, however distinctive their styles, sound like vintage Stones. "Big Enough," for example, sounds like an update of "Hot Stuff," while "Take It So Hard," recalls "Brown Sugar," and "Rockawhile" recalls any number of two-chord Stones jams. "Struggle" is a Stones voodoo party-from-hell song, like "Gimme Shelter" or "Sympathy for the Devil," and "Whip It Up" calls to mind "Midnight Rambler," even though it's not about S and M, as the title would have you believe...