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...what might be called "good time music." But it's not--it's bad time music trying to put the best face on things, with the unmistakable note of a man trying to convince himself. The horror resurfaces with "Let Me Go," a track with rockabilly roots, sinister Link Wray guitar licks, and a dose of psychopathology. "I find it hard to cruel with a smile, don't you?" sings Jagger, and you remember that they wanted him to star in A Clockwork Orange. That's what's genuinely scary about The World According to Jagger: when chaos rules...
Fresh Fish had style and guts, and guitarist Link Wray's fast riffs and shouts of "yeah!" complemented Gordon's howl too. It faltered only where Gordon gave up the fast boogie beat for schmaltzy, over-dubbed slow tracks...
...rockabilly revival being led by the man who started it all--Jerry Lee Lewis, who, at age 44, still makes most rockers look like bar mitzvah combos. Gordon has speeded up the beat from his last album, jazzed up the arrangements a bit, and switched personnel, replacing the idiosyncratic Wray with ace London session-man Chris Spedding...
...part of the film's charm lies in the breathless sense of discovery that infuses every shot, heightened with each passing reel. It's something Dino De Laurentiis' repulsive, self-conscious, exploitive remake never touches. And it's as good now, because today so much of it--Fay Wray's hysteria, the chases, Max Steiner's delightful but overdone score--seems tongue-in-cheek. And we got to suspend our disbelief. Really suspend it. Until we're yanked in. "'Twas Beauty killed the Beast," says Carl Denham (Robert Armstrong) at the end of the movie, and the purity of this...
...Wray G. Zelt III Washington...