"And I thought, well, I'm just going on my punk principles here, a bit like a three-minute, short, sharp song, the first track on an album: you should just put it out there, show them how far it's going to go, grab hold of people and say: 'Right, you're in for a hell of a ride now.'" There's another reason, she says.
Why are no major or even emerging recording artists today writing such sharp, penetrating songs as "Maggie's Farm"?
Barely two short, sharp songs into a clattering set, some lyrical fudging makes McKee question Kelly's memory.
What we said: "You can see just how sure-footed Wire currently seem in everything from their 14th studio album's definitive, eponymous title to the taut, sharp songs it contains: honed and refined through years of the band playing them live instead of I Am the Fly or 12XU," wrote Alexis Petridis, in his lead review for the Guardian.
He also said that "Rise Against may be nervous about leaving the underground behind, but with sharp songs like these, they're ready for the rest of the world".
Rolling Stone magazine tells of the band's further emergence into the mainstream with Appeal to Reason, "Rise Against may be nervous about leaving the underground behind, but with sharp songs like these, they're ready for the rest of the world".
The frontwoman for this English punk band is a natural star who looked great and sounded better posing in the video for "Connection," a switchblade-sharp song that made Elastica leaders in the New British Invasion of the mid-1990's.
One result: sugar-sharp songs with a hint of intrigue.
"The Singer" is one of the sharpest songs he's recorded.
Ms. Presley played first, leading her sharp band through not-as-sharp songs from her debut album, "To Whom It May Concern" (Capitol).
"Alligator" is a sharp, bluesy song whose lyrics, about love's liberating power, are defiantly characterless: "Could you be that person for me? / Would you feel right setting me free?
