Wanna feel old? Hair, “The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical,” as it styled itself, has its 56th birthday this month.
Steve adored puzzles, solving them and creating them, so it makes you wonder that this one continued to fester—was that so few of his songs attained the rank of “standard.”
Jagged Little Pill is as manicured as the kind of Stepfordian society the material supposedly rails against.
Promenade is a powder keg but the powder may not be as explosive as it hints.
The theme was “Lyrics by Shakespeare.”
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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