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By Barbara O'Dair
This may really be the Age of Shit but if my prognosis, based on the musical “product” released in 1981, isn’t bleaker, it’s because I went back and looked at last year’s list. I like this one’s better. Somewhere between the fluff of Olivia Newton John (she makes sex sound like a taffy pull, and just about as much fun) and the dead-weight bluster of Journey lies an interesting if inconsistent body of music from over the year that bears listening to. (To the timid: just because you may not have heard it on PLJ or NEW doesn’t mean it’s going to hurt you. Take the plunge.)
1. X: Wild Gift (Slash) (I) –The second LP from this LA-based group scores this year’s best songs, best vocals (Exene and John Doe), best lyrics, best relationship, best guitarist (Billy Zoom), best hair, best cover art. General best ambience. Puts the X back in love.
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