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...author, Ono does have talent. Abler at providing catchy musical hooks than at building ballads to emotional peaks, she has assembled (and partly recycled) a likable score free of her trademark screeching. Most of the lyrics clank, but a few are funny or touching. A compelling group stomp called I Felt Like Smashing My Face in a Clear Glass Window deftly captures the nihilistic self-loathing of many street kids. At such moments, New York Rock seems pertinent. Otherwise, despite a production of great energy and inventiveness, sweet singing and infectious grins, it's a naive hippie-era flashback with...
...album for ZZ Top, and its first since signing a $35 million, five-album deal with RCA -- the band has returned to its roadhouse roots and emerged renewed and as bristly as ever. The album kicks off with the high-voltage Pincushion and never lets up. From the syncopated stomp of Fuzzbox Voodoo to the scrawl of searing guitar notes on Cherry Red, the trio, led by Gibbons' supple guitar work, rocks with earnest, no-frills intensity that harks back to ZZ Top's first hit, La Grange...
...miraculous veterinarian, GBV main guy Robert Pollard has a respect for the diverse beasts of the rock and roll jungle that lets him get them to do his bidding. Like Dr. Doolittle, Pollard can convince animals that would normally be at each other's throats--a two-chord, thumping stomp, say, and its natural enemy, a spiraling, self-involved vocal line--to team up and make nice. And, like Dr. Doolittle, GBV seems out of place in a world that includes compact discs, cable TV, Ministry and Steve Albini...
...been thinking about the word "comp." It's a sinister word: it rhymes with "stomp" and "whomp." "Comper" sounds like my last name. During the news comp, I was called "Molly B. Comper" by some of the executives...
...roommates and I get into arguments all the time. And we almost always end up shouting so loud that people can hear us all the way down the hall. Voices get hoarse, tempers flare, sometimes we throw insults or furniture at each other, some of us stomp out of the room fuming--but only to come back to get that last, trenchant word...