Word: uptempo
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What would you do if you and two other guys dyed your hair blond, recorded a few records of slick, uptempo new wave-reggae, and suddenly found yourself a household word in India, Mexico, Japan, England, America, and Antarctica? You'd freak. That's obviously what has happened to the Police this outing...
...drags. A no-holds-barred rock-and-roll opening gives way to a meditative break, as Jeffreys talks of how his father beat him up. "I hated those days," he needlessly comments. The fans (with prompting) chant "Wanna give to you, my body and soul", and then the uptempo returns and Jeffreys declares "Nobody can hit me now, nobody can touch...
...music almost everywhere is "disco sound": heavy back beat, uptempo, often with Big Band effects. Favorite artists are Barry White, Gloria Gaynor, Donna Summer, the Silver Convention, Maynard Ferguson, Shalamar, Marvin Gaye, the Bee Gees, the Isley Brothers, Jerry Butler-as well as Sinatra, Como and Glenn Miller. They are cunningly selected by the all-important disco jockeys who keep a hawk's eye on the floor and choreograph the dancers by changing the pace and style of the records and tapes. Says Chicago Disco Jockey Paul Weisberg: "I look around and get a feeling for the mood...
Cheap Trills does a lot of those fiddle tunes as well as some uptempo jazz and swing. Their soloists take amazing breaks one after another and play "high voltage stuff at breakneck speed" as someone once said. They'll be there...
WILLIAMS IS ON less solid ground when he does other people's songs on side one. "Losing You," with Pete Carr's pulsating electric guitar and Charlie Caniel's soaring fiddle, is very fine musically, but the mood of this basically sad song is spoiled by the uptempo beat they provide. "On Susan's Floor" is a pleasant ballad, which seems out of place on this album. The best song on the side is again one of Williams's own, "(Baby I Loved You) I Really Did," which details a break-up as bitter as it is timely...