Word: wanna
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These five happy-go-lucky musicians offered a lighter, happier alternative to the melodrama of Guns N' Roses and unapologetic experimentalism of bands like the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Faith No More. On their EP, As Ugly As They Wanna Be, UKJ never got deeper than the tragic teenage problems of parents and parties...
...WANNA GET ROCKED?" shouts DEF LEPPARD on its new album, Adrenalize (Mercury). The answer, judging by the way the record has beaten Springsteen to the top spot on the pop charts, is a thunderous yes. The British band offers its trademark formula: a sonic avalanche of crunching power chords, rock-solid rhythms and surprisingly tuneful vocals. The lyrics remain gleefully sophomoric. On Make Love Like a Man, singer Joe Elliott pleads, "Don't call me gigolo./ Don't call me Casanova./ Just call me on the phone, and baby c'mon over." The Leps may not change the world...
Dito's singing style is clear and easily understood. Gutterboy seemingly invites the listener to sing along, for she will have no trouble discerning Dito's lyrics (although she may be annoyed by the too frequent appearance of words like "wanna," "gotta...
...offers less noise but replaces it with bothersome rhyming--ostensibly only for rhyming's sake. One quite comical stanza of poetic silliness is: "Ya see I've been clickin these heels to gether/hoping for a change in the weather/puttin on a hat with a yellow feather/ya see I wanna make it all better. "I wonder, is the phrase "yellow feather" a reference to some little-know Shakespearian drama, or is it just the first phrase that Gutterboy found to fit the "-ether" rhyme scheme? Hmmm...
...five final choices for Oklahomastate license plate. Billy Bob, you wanna read 'emoff...