Word: wanna
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...That I wanna have a little pride in My world...
...fusion-effeminate yet macho-of the rock-'n'-roll screamer and the Liberace of aerobics ("Good golly, Miss Molly, you look like a hog!"). The next he is Velvet Jones, a pomaded pimp, with teeth like sheathed knives, huckstering his how-to books for young ladies, I Wanna Be a Ho and Exercises of Love. Now he is Tyrone Green, an illiterate convict lionized by radical chic for his vengeful poetry ("Cill My Lanlord") and moving with the mean swagger of a ghetto goon pulling off his toughest scam. A few commercials later, he is Tyrone...
...about the state of America. This is the Fleshtones at their worst, the tepid liberalism of 1981's "R-I-G-T-S"--off Roman Gods--or Hexbreaker's "New Scene": "Phony society, we reject your false values." Ho hum. "Get off my back. Let me do what I wanna do." So what...
...then you get to watch the troupe blend these various suggestions into the lyrics of blues numbers ("I wanna be your trash compactor baby...") or TV talk shows or real life situations ("Okay, what do we have? A cheerleader and a hairdresser riding the T? All right...
...showers and warm beds are our only reasons for existence. It will have been fun when we look back form the other side of tomorrow's breakfast, but for the moment the words of the Ramones express our sentiments well: "I wanna be sedated...