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VJ off price Glen dress shoes ................... $3999 Frye shoes and boots ... $2QOO to $3QOO CANADA EMPLOYMENT CENTRE OFF ON CAMPUS 4th Floor, SUB Monday - Friday, 8:00 - 4:30 Tannery Shop & Restaurants Canada 5472 Spring Garden Road, Halifax Page A-2 o The Dalhousie Gazette, February 14, 1985 listener. The final verdict on Choir Invisible's From Sea to Shining Sea is not a good one. Given time, Legendary the band could evolve into a classy post-Roxy Music entity, sessions by since the potential does indeed exist. T his ti me around, the Beefheart. .. potential is buried by dense production and more than a few By SIOBHAN McRAE overblown pretensions. 'T is a ' shame. Indeed, the first song of R ELEASE D L ATE LAST the EP seems to encapsulate the year, The Legendary A&M band's si tua tion. Its title: Grey At Sessions contains th e first Present. recmdings made by Cap tain Beefheart, dating from 1965. As the liner notes state, four of the songs were originally released on two singles, while the fi fth Slugs have langui shed for nearl y tw o decades in an A&M tape vaul t. Beefheart begun slimy actuall y later re-d id some of th is material for his firs t LP, Safe As slide into Milk, in 1967. Beefheart 's version of Bo commercialism Diddley's Diddy Wah Diddy By KIMBERLY WHITCHURCH shows the young Magic Band to be accomplished and committed. L aced with B eefh eart's DOUG AND T H E SLl'GS, harmonica work, the song shows the eclectic sextet from the west him to be in tune with the R&B coast, has begun a slimy slide into style which was at that time being commercialism. Popaganda is explored by such groups as The an unfortunatl ey apt title for Ro ll ing stones and The Animals. their lates t album. But Beefheart demonstrates a Th e a lbum i s s li c kl y more a uthentic feeling for this e ngineered witho ut b e ing type of music than that di splayed overproduced. For the most part by its more well-known white it manages to capture the fr esh exponents. energy they're known for. Doug or surprisingly, none of these Bennett's distinctive vocals are songs show or even hint at the immediately recognizable. H e's lyrical and musical eccentricities the vocal equivalent of a which were later to emerge with character actor-there's loads of such albums as Strictly Personal. cynicism and charisma in that The song which might be knowing sneer. considered as coming close t to Individual tracks are not what would eventually become without merit. Dancing on the Beefhean 's style is the previously Powerlines is a bouncy dance unreleased Here I Am, I Always tune with a sophisticated edge. It Am. doesn't really need the trendy Credit should go to A&M for holocaust-hook already worked leaving the recordings in the to death (so to speak) by Ul travox, original mono instead of Kate Bush, Frankie Goes to rechanelling them to simulate Hollywood, and countless others. stereo. To wit: " This is not a test/this is perform. Whatever was band isn't one of them. It seems not a drill / this is real" plus scary happening to him personally, his working for his religion and for that the members of Choir mechanical sounds. Sigh. career was clearly dying, and peace. Invi~ible are stuck in a rut of Opinions has a nice intro and Cat Stevens aside from an occasional play of For these reasons, Footsteps in writing music similar to the even begins to approach the Slug­ rehashes classics Another Saturday Night or some the Dark is more than another debut LP of A Flock of Seagulls. music style. Forget about It Must other hit, Cat Steven~ record; it is a learning experience. This is not meant to criticize that Be Love. It sounds fine on the in new LP disappeared from the airwaves It is also a transport back to a time LP, for it was quite good. The surface, but the lyrics are no better and the public mind. when music was a little more point is that it has been done, it than anything by the infamous By DAVID OLIE Now, after more than six years, simple, a little more peaceful and has been done better, and there is K.C. and the Sunshine Band. The ~®!11'15"?~~ Stevens has reappeared. a liule more meaningful than no point in retreading stylistic chorus goes like this: WHATEVER HAPPENED TO However, he isn't really Stevens much of it is today. tendencies that are years old. Cat Stevens? Do you, in fact, even and he hasn't really reappeared. The production of the EP is l feel no pain remember Cat Stevens? The new album, entitled Choir Invisible quite dense, reducing Don l feel the same This is where I begin to date Footsteps in the Dark is, in fael, Rom ire's drums to a bare 4/ 4 beat l feel so strange myself: I do remember him; I the second volume of Stevens' so cold I caught and the keyboards and bass to It must be love remember his albums dating back greatest hits. There are no new levels simply too low to reveal to the very early seventies; I songs on this album, although a draft ... anything interesting. l feel the heat remember his distinctive vocal there are three pieces not to be By BARRY WALSH Perhaps the problem is that l feel the beat style, his simple, peaceful found on any of his previous :m iii ·lal< there wasn't anything interesting l feel complete melodies on six and twelve string albums. Don't be Shy and If You THESE DAYS, AFTER THE even before the band reached the It must be lm1e acoustic, his soul-searching Want to Sing Out, Sing Out are barrage of synth-pop that has studio. The only one I respond to lyrics. I remember tranquility taken from the soundtrack of the permeated the radio airwaves for · is I Walked Away, which Definitely not what one would with a message. movie Harold and Maude, while I the last few years, music is should be picked up by FM radw. expect from the same group that Mind you, I didn't discover Want to Live in a Wigwam was returning to its roots. With the The rest of the selections plod put out Cognac and Bologna and Stevens that far back. Maybe previously only available as the advent of explosive new black along like tired mules. Music for the Hard of Thinking. around 1977 or so. I'm not that flipside of the single Morning anists reviving the sagging spirits Lamentations about cloudy, Please please please is a sexy dated. But even so, I recall him Has Broken. All three are of R&B, music is starting to have windy days and piercing eyes are rock song with a bassline that with a smile. He was a heaven­ valuable additions to the Stevens feeling again. It's getting warm. becoming cliches just as fast as stans right at the hips. sent refuge from disco in that foul album library. On the other So where does this leave Choir shots of breaking glass in videos. Somewhat disappointing on year, if nothing else. (Do you hand, for some strange reason the Invisible, a new band of fresh­ Vocalist John Carry has a nice, the whole, but there is still a remember disco? You poor sap.) song Father and Son appears here faced, nice-looking young men, smooth voice, but his enuncia­ glimmer of the group's original And even now, when it's time to when it was already included on who've quite recently released tion is not as good as it should be, promise.