Music: The Town Crier of Weird

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With its combination of musical whimsy and homicidal lyrical glee, Tokyo Rose becomes an unlikely, indeed unwitting, rejoinder to The Japan That Can Say No, the Japanese best seller written by Sony's chairman, Akio Morita, and Shintaro Ishihara that has stirred such debate with its pointed challenges to America. Tokyo Rose is, in fact, an improvement on it. You can dance to Parks if you have some appropriately eccentric moves. And while he's riling you, he can always make you smile.