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can even feel it in mid-swig as the addition distorts, or even occasionally distorts,
that puts you over the hump, into oblivion.
pumice Even after clanty has been exhausted, each basically it's just a matter of sleep and minor
moments of being awake. Some stuff!
new additional post- clarity hit will let you
Drink enuff of the stufT and it's easy as
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causality, you won ' t know a cause from an
and butter and that US Grant was the best
drinking ' ll get ya. Booze has been respected effect from Adam. But every once in a while president of the one the only USA. He was
for generations, seeing Films will show you (maybe you ' ll even skip a shot or two) it ' ll all drunk all the time and in later times idiots
that, so if you’re juiced up while you see come crystal clear as the physicaiity of the hit said he was drunk cause he had cancer and
them you ' ll really get the point. opens your senses for a micro-second or 2. was trying to kill the pain: causality! Weird as
Hence, Old Crow will do the job for you Maybe every other causal link you end up a pillow, just weird that 's all
in one big hell of a jiffy. Lickity split in fact with will be mere delusion, gTcat! Not only In Birth of a Nation they show you what
One swig after another and it all adds up, you does it distort for you but it only temporarily reconstruction did to the world and how it
consumed GUIDC
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music for five years, and this sounds Gilbert O’ Sullivan: “Himself ’ (MAM ). his wife, Marilyn, in what sounds like
like more of that good old weirdness. I admit I discarded this after playing it the best Beach Boys record since
Yet after a dozen listenings the only twice when it came through six “Sunflower.” The old combination of
phrase, musical or verbal, that stays in months ago. but I insist 1 was intrigued ingenuousness and sophistication
my mind is “Ooh what a dish, she by the idea of a singer- songwriter works as well as ever. This time the
smelled just like a fish,” which managed by Gordon Mills , who brings vocals rather than the lyrics arc naive
offended me. I probably don ’ t us Tom Jones and Engelbert Humper- - direct, pretty, effortless, thoughtless
understand, probably because I’m not dinck. Now that he turns up with a - but Wilson ’s studio work is as
trying hard enough, but then, you genius single - which I like best for its precise and humorous as ever. B plus.
won’t cither. B minus. off- handedness, both structurally and
in the way it equates filial and Supa: “Homespun” (Paramount).
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“Laura Lee” (Hot Wax). An attempt romantic affection -I ve listened Every time I think I ve run up against
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to broaden Ms. Lee’s man- hating again. Chances are he’ll turn into a the ultimate country funk inanity -
persona , this ends up sounding like major annoyance, but before that Hookfoot, say - 1 find someone even
one more vaguely disappointing soul happens we ought to acknowledge that dumber. Guess what this love of the
LP, uneven and repetitious at the same he is a complete original, albeit a very good red Canarsie clay says money
time. I ’ m sure the women’s- lib uneven artist. Persona: insecure mid- won’t buy? And what rhymes with
number, which was engineered by her dle- class with a screw loose. Recom- buy that he gets on his motorcycle?
male producer- manager, is mostly an mended: “Nothing Rhymed.” B. Gawd. D minus.
act, yet isn’t it strange that the
man- hating songs carry more con- Junior Parker: “I Tell Stories Sad and Three Dog Night: “Seven Seperate
viction than the others? Highlight: True, I Sing the Blues and Play Fools ” (Dunhill). 1 ordinarily defend
“Rip Off,” which I suspect was kept Harmonica Too, It Is Very Funky ” the slickness of America’s fave group,
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off the air by male programmers. B (United Artists). I don’t know much but their worst-ever studio LP doesn t
minus. about Junior Parker, but I know what deserve to be called slick. It’s
I like - whether he’s singing Percy professional and expensive, yes, but
Lindisfame: “Fog On the Tyne ” Mayfield or a standard like “Funny it ’ s also a mess oversung. over -
(Elektra). For months now, I have How Time Slips Away,” this man is arranged, overpackagcd. Their tasty
been coming to this record at the end mellow for real. B plus. material has turned into a mush of
of the row, playing it once more, campaign promise social conscious-
noting how much I prefer the group to ness, and the two songs I know in
its name and forgetting about it again Leon Russell: “Carney ” (Shelter). I other versions sound bloated. This
So, I remember - competent and don t know anyone who really likes could just be the beginning of the end.
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eclectic B minus. Russell who also really likes this C.
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album. I don t really like Russell - a
The Moonglows: “Return of the quirk I rarely attempt to defend - and Booker T. & Priscilla: “Home Grown ”
Moong | ows ’ r (RCA Victor). On the I think I d rather listen to the first side (Dunhill). This is mostly sententious
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one hand, this revival of the great 50s of “Carney ” than to anything else he ’ s and silly — it includes a 12 minute
Chess Records group is obviously a recorded. The reason: Two of his very version of “Who Killed Cock Robin? ”
money-making scheme. On the other best songs, “Tight Rope ” and “Man- that the artist says was inspired in
hand, producer Harvey Fuqua (ex- hattan Island Serenade ” are both Heaven but 1 suspect was concocted in
Moonglow, ex Motown ) has done a performed at his most unaffected. 1 Limbo but radio programmers
serious updating job - strings, after grant that the second side is a loser, should listen to “Maggie s Farm,” in
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all, are the correct studio equivalent of though. B. which (by genius or chance) the
the group s smooth polyphonous style, conversational and musical elements of
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and “I Was Wrong” fused the two “Spring ” (United Artists). I love this Dylan’s delivery are split almost
periods beautifully. But there were record. Knowing my fondness for girl prismatically. I like these people and I
strings, too, and it meant something groups and early Beach Boys, however, wish everything they did was that
for the Moonglows to replace them I have to admit I ’m a little prejudiced. good. C.
with voices. On both hands, I’d rather Brian Wilson has produced his old
listen to the real stuff. C phis. female back- up, the Honeys, featuring 9
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