ROCK • A • RAMA

Stop the presses, Bob, this one’s THE best rock ’n’ roll album of 1986—it’s got Springsteen and Thelonious Monster beat seven ways from Sunday! Soon after this album was recorded, (in NYC, April 1979) Bangs and Birdland parted company, with the band mutating into the Rattlers, even as the brutally wordy Bangs clutched his beloved fantasies of betrayal (takes two) to his breast and trudged off to Texas.