CHRISTGAU CONSUMER GUIDE
TONI BASIL: "Word Of Mouth” (Chrysalis):: The only woman ever to offer to take it up the ass on top 40 radio (close your eyes and concentrate on the Words if you don’t believe me) tops that trick by making four words out of “Don’t want no body” and then playing the double negative both ways.
CHRISTGAU CONSUMER GUIDE
Robert Christgau
TONI BASIL: "Word Of Mouth” (Chrysalis):: The only woman ever to offer to take it up the ass on top 40 radio (close your eyes and concentrate on the Words if you don’t believe me) tops that trick by making four words out of “Don’t want no body” and then playing the double negative both ways. If like me you think it’s kind of neat for a bizzer who’s pushing 40 (helped out on The TAMI Show in 1965) to come on as a dirty teen dream, you’ll enjoy the cunning of her modestly futuristic El Lay pop-rock. But if like me you’ve never fathomed the appeal of (David Essex’s) “Rock On” and treasure other versions of “Be Stiff’ and “Little Red Book,” you won’t mistake her for Blondie or Nick Lowe. B +