joke. Reincarnation and stuff? I don’t know what that’s about. You just do images from deep within your soul. So, they’re interesting. Much more than trying to figure it all out. Like T Rex. Like Eraserhead. These are my favourite things. Not Nancy Sinatra. Surprises. We’re surrealists. Maybe the avant- garde appeals to people from our economic background, because we’re typically rejecting the older meaningful Christian values, but we’re still confused as hell. “Like with all the satellites and shit there’s so march 21, 1987: many words flying through the air you don’t Prince at the first know what’s going on, you don’t know what to avenue nightclub think. I really love all that stuff, though – shit – in minneapolis Why it comes out so much I don’t know. Look, they talk about Aids in Africa, everyone’s I don’t have any sisters, OK? All brothers. gonna die in 10 years – you just think: ‘What And we’re all very hetero. I use the word the fuck’s going on?’ And then – and then you ‘motherfucker’ in the way it was used 200 don’t even think that any more…” years ago; it’s been devalued since. I love Black? Charles? “Yeah?” Let me get you The artist is insults and put-downs. Especially Spanish another drink. Let me get you a house. ones; I’m particularly impressed with those. The Pixies’ first full-length album will spout When you ask Puerto Ricans what they mean, and surface next spring if your ears haven’t not credited you always get a long explanation with gone on the wagon after Come On Pilgrim. detailed information. English put-downs don’t Charming name, that. reflect culture or class. No style.” “It’s stolen from a Californian Christian folk NME NOV 28 Second Prince album Joey speaks Tagalog. It’s his native tongue. singer called Larry Norman, who always says: of ’87 is strictly on the down-low. His one memory of his birthplace is that when ‘Come on pilgrim, you know he loves you.’ The Beatles broke up his local church rang out That’s such a cool line. I phoned his girlfriend rince will have a new album with people singing “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da” all to see if it was cool to steal it and he never Pin the shops in the first week of day long. La la la la, life goes on. phoned back, so fuck it. If I get sued, I’ll say I December, his second release of the Charles is terrified of being compared to Lou stole it from John Wayne. Say, does America year. The eight-track LP comes in a Reed and this is why he always sings in a very seem like a bizarre wasteland to you? The completely black sleeve, except for the high voice. He knows rock’n’roll is supposed to world and his wife and their mediocrity?” catalogue number which appears in be groinal. “That’s why everyone who listens Tell me about “Ed Is Dead”, Black. “There was small peach print. The artist is not to it can at least remember puberty. I hate to this hideous weird girl at my high school who credited and the album has no title to sound anti-old, but people don’t have sex wore a burlap sack, cords and rubber shoes. I’d speak of, but insiders say it is likely to after 50, also by the time talk to her, but no one else become known as The Black Album. you’re 50 you accept that would. I didn’t know what There is no official word from WEA, who all this singing about “I just keep saying was wrong with her, then distribute Paisley Park, although they did frustration is just bullshit. later I found out she’d been say there were strong rumours of a release The oldest rock stars are ‘repent’ as a joke… mentally affected after a before the end of the year. about 48 now, so it’s gonna car accident. But, with the help of The Revolution, an be interesting…” You just do images “Five years later I went unofficial Prince information service in “A new market could open back and saw her riding the UK, NME has learned that the album up,” says David. “We’re all from deep within a bike around, exactly the will be sneaked out on December 7 with laying back in our nursing your soul” same as she ever was. the minimum of fuss and no advertising. home kinda stuff…” Except… she was really The tracks were all recorded in the last 18 Sorry, what did you say sunburned.” And her name months, some from the Sign O’ The Times rock was? The readers might want to know. was Ed? “Shit, no. It just rhymes.” sessions and earlier material. “Oh, suck, crank the volume, distortion, The full track listing is “Le Grind”, “Cindy scream – that’s rock.” “Elevator lady, elevator lady, elevator lady, C”, “Dead On It”, “When 2 R In Love”, “Bob Thanks. What’s all this about diseases? lady lady lady, levitate me!” (“Levitate Me”) George”, “Superfunkycalifragisexi”, “2 Nigs United 4 West Compton” and “I said I wanna be a singer like Lou Reed/I like magine after the nuclear “Hard Rock In A Funky Place”. Lou Reed, she said, sticking her tongue in my “Iholocaust,” says , Plans are also afoot for a live album next ear/Let’s go, let’s sit, let’s talk, politics goes “there’s just this heap of rocks. And year to coincide with the release of the Sign

so good with beer/And while we’re at it, baby, one guy will come along and bang two O’ The Times concert movie. Jim Steinfeldt Getty/ why don’t you tell me one of your biggest together and he’ll be the first star! Wow! Hey, fears?/I said losing my penis to a whore with I got a friend who brings me crystals from disease – just kidding/…I’m a humble guy…” Stockholm. They’re really wild. Also, she brings (“I’ve Been Tired”) me pomegranates.” Black went on an archaeological dig not long o one says the word ‘penis’, do ago. He found jewels stuck in the ribs of “Nthey? It’s a real ‘medical’ word. babies, and pearls in their teeth. “And there Everyone goes sick and blushes. was this one pearl that had, over the years, Oh shit, I just think love is everything and made it all the way from the bottom of the everything is perfect, so love is perfect. I just Pacific Ocean to the middle of the Arizona like words that sound good.” desert. By itself.” David interrupts to say that if you play Pixies’ Ladies and gentlemen, do I have no choice record backwards, it goes: “Natas, Natas…” but to give you the Pixies or what? Get off of “I mean, I just like nice-sounding words like your toadstool for the loudest new prayers in ‘caribou’,” continues Black. “OK, that’s a nice The West. Slipshod and imminent. There is no animal too. But I just keep saying ‘repent’ as a ceiling. Chris Roberts

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