🚀 go-pugleaf

if it wasn't for the context of the rest
of the article, i would swear that the
author of the following passage was being
sarcastic:

  'The Ramones lyric tack here is a similarly brilliant reduction
and compacting.  Their words made deft use of irony and absurdity to
construct terse epigrams that resonated (again) within the skull of
initiated rockers with a thousand images and innuendoes, often
embracing wildly contradictory stances, which left final
interpretation wholly in the hands of the listener.  Take a song
like "I Don't Wanna Walk Around With You" the first verse of which is
composed entirely of the title line repeated five times over; the
second verse goes, "I don't wanna go out with you" also repeated
again and again.  But periodically Joey stops to ponder: "So why you
wanna walk around with me?" That simple juxtaposition says volumes!
Is Joey being condescending? Is he feeling insecure? Does he fear
rejection? Is he just incapable of entering into a relationship
because of its intricacy -- is he mature enough to engage in any
activity more complex than just to "walk around" the streets and
malls of Queens? Who the fuck knows! But you sure as shit start
wondering from the first time you hear those lines.'

AjD

the author is Howard Wuelfing, the article is "Ramones, when they
didn't suck," and the magazine is the latest issue of _Your_Flesh_,
a damned fine zine.
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                       ajd@oit.itd.umich.edu
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