puke 'em up!

Ted O. Jackson TOJACKSO at HAWK.SYR.EDU
Mon May 6 15:50:14 EDT 1996


Jazza responds to carl:
> >         I still maintain a perverse liking for "Beat 'Em Up" (compared to
> > the rest of CN, anyway).  I'm not really sure why!
>
>         `Beat 'Em Up's' a good song by any other standards, although it
> has got really _terrible_ lyrics. But the fact that it wasn't written by

Well, there's 50% of the song!

> any BOC members sort of takes the edge off its quality. It's the sort of
> thing you'd expect to hear from Thin Lizzie in a weak moment, not BOC,

Jeez, don't insult Thin Lizzy that bad!  The continual reference to
fighting and violence in their songs is somehow less than ephemeral,
esp. given that while Brian Robertson was in the band, he missed two
tours while recovering from battle damage taken in bar fights!  But I
saw gigs on those tours, and Gary Moore filled in.  So, while I think
Brian's great, it was some consolation seeing Gary do his thing!
theo



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