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compromising lyrics, especially in
songs like "Last Night." This chronicles
the sad progress of love affairs with
women who will "tell you that they love
you / Then turn as cold as stone." Con-
cludes Edwards when the spiteful thing
leaves him: "I guess I didn't do
anything right / Last night."
And then there's the challenging title
cut, "We're Gonna Rock," which is The
Look's very own escapist anthem.
"We're gonna rock, how 'bout you? /
Don't you sit on your ass, don't you be
no fool," chides Edwards meaningfully.
I won't bore you with a listing of the
band's more pretentious profundities,
but I think it's fair to say that "Life is
pretty funny, I guess" is a represen-
tative sample.
PERHAPS THE lyrics wouldn't be so
annoying if the music was there, but it
isn't. Somebody should invent a special
guitar for bands like The Look, an in-
strument with just the bottom two
strings and the frets closest to the body.
They obviously don't have any use for
the rest of the current model.

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The Look
The Look - 'We're Gonna Rock'
(Plastic) - Okay, here goes. For those
of you who like REO Speedwagon and

the Michael Stanley Band, The Look is
a find. There. I managed to say that
without sneering.
To rephrase that: WABX just loves
these guys. That's because The Look is
the formulaic Midwestern rock band,
another in an apparently interminable
line that includes many of rock's most
banal performers.
NOT ONES to break with tradition,
The Look is content to stick with all the
tried-and-truisms that have made ban-
ds like REO rich and famous. The
music is moronic and repetitive,
decibels of sound and fury signifying
less than zero.
Singer Dave Edwards likes to mix in
lots of cute vocal glides with his Eddy
Money-ish strains, while the bashers
behind him throw in every overworked
convention of Midwestern rock they can
find. Plastic Records should make a
mint with these guys, because safety is
the name of their game.
The Look knows every commercial
trick in the book, and you can almost
see them smiling imperturbably while
Edwards croons his saccharine drivel.
Except that these guys are tough; you
can tell by looking at the back picture;
they're wearing sunglasses and frowns.
Tough.
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But by far the most unforgivable
thing about this album is the band's un-
comprehending and dispirited version
of Canned Heat's "Don't Let Me Be
Misunderstood." There's nothing wrong
with publicly espousing your own
droolings if you insist, but reducing
somebody else's handiwork to drivel is
inexcusable.
Well, you get the general idea. Those
of you who have learned not to trust me
can see for yourself Friday and Satur-
day nights at Second Chance. But don't
say I didn't warn you: The Look is an
eyesore, and definitely for the
masochistic only.
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