40 C R O C K O N by EthKe Ann Vare Petty is "pure rock"? My dear records. Look' at AC/DC. Now is, an opinion. As writer Spider ALBUM REVIEWS misinformed child, he is merely that is music. Heavy metal is Robinson says, “A critic is your basic, boring pop—the superior, and platinum is the someone who tells you whether Theartist...... Debbie Harry stuff that rises up the song proof of a good group. or not something is ‘art.’ A The album...... KooKoo charts to the Top Ten (the ten —Unsigned. reviewer tells you if he likes it.” I The label...... Chrysalis worst songs in America, in other Dear Anonymous Teenaged am a record reviewer, happily words). What I know is rock Male Reader:I take it you sharing my own (reasonably in­ The cover art of Blondie's real you call "posturing, prehistoric, weren’t pleased with my review formed) tastes with you. Feel lead singer's solo debut is so macho, mindless gunk." Well, of Van Halen. Well, I stand by spellbinding (it was created by More Rock On that "gunk” sells a hell of a lot of my opinion—and that's what it the set designer of the film Page 41 "Alien") that one expects a similar eerie beauty from the music. Tough luck. Harry has gotten together with the Chic organization (pro­ genitors of "Le Freak." pro­ ducers of Sister Sledge) to record an album of soft-soaped, ANNUAL disco/funk/rap that is not so bad in and of itself—it just seems like an ethnic rip-off coming from this lily-white warbler. FALL SALE Listeners who discovered Harry with her recent "Rap­ ture” might like KooKoo. Those expecting something along the NOW IN PROGRESS (parallel) lines of Eat to the Beat Choose from a wide variety of colors and textures! will be terribly disappointed. littler floors

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