Consumer Guide Album

The Waitresses: I Could Rule the World if I Could Only Get the Parts [Polydor EP, 1982]
The words still overcomplicate the music--the smartest person I know indeed. But even the title tune, written for Tin Huey, has pop momentum. Add the Xmas carol for singles (I say she was shopping at the Bleecker Street Gristedes') and the lucky TV theme (in which Chris Butler shows off his high school memories, or maybe his ethnographies), and the male-feminist Monkees reveal themselves as a cross between Blondie and the Bus Boys. And Tin Huey. A-