rhe Weekly Arts and Entertainment Supplement to the Daily Nexus 2 A Thursday, December 7,1995 Daily Nexus

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For those of us who like KRS-ONE ture of What heard that Noel “Oasis” bubble gum and keeping 5. Album: Foo Fighters 11. Sunny Day Real Es­ Gallagher played on a fan- Bone Thugs 'N' Sattler our attention spans out of / Foo Fighters tate / LP2 tasmic, magical, mysteri­ firm commitments, I sub­ 6. Single (with two bo­ 12. Sonic Youth / Wash­ ous track, but in the end, mit a proposal for the top nus tracks): Edwyn Col­ ing Machine James learned a lot more five singles of the year. I lins / “A Girl Like You” 13. Built to Spill / There’s than he had planned to. / © #_® ®\ thought this year was so 7. Album: GZA / Liq­ Nothing Wrong With Pete Shotton began to believe in reincarnation and it generally mediocre that a uid Swords Love 5. The Verve / A North­ made his eyes tear up. He dreamt about all the Mends he TLC song almost made 8. Video: Weezer / 14. Yo La Tengo / Electr- ern Soul had lost and all the places he had known. All the things this list. The stuff that was “Buddy Holly” O-Pura They may have broken he had tried to say seemed less important because of all good this year was great, 9. TV commercial: 15. Various Artists / Kids up in August, but the the unknown things he must have said. and everything else was Grand Puba, CL Smooth Original Motion Picture myths and shadows sur­ Reincarnation came just when he needed it He was 20 just a notch above that and Pete Rock for Sprite Soundtrack rounding the Verve con­ and lonely. He decided to be easy on himself and wait horrible song about the 10. Single (with’bonus 16. Ropers / All the Time tinue to astonish and mys­ until he was 21. He was taking life a little too easy, girl and the guy who loves track): The Rentals / 17. Rocket From the tify. The Verve were not though. He started watching way too much MTV and her dog, too. ‘Triends of P.” Crypt / Scream, Dracula, just about working-class thinking punk revival music really way cool. 11. Single (with bonus Scream! English life. They were a He stuck with his strange déjà vu feeling for four or 1. Method Man featur­ track): The Pharcyde / 18. Quicksand / M anic movement, a feeling, a five days. He thought that was strange until he realized ing Mary J. Blige — “All I “Runnin”’ Compression truth in a world of chaos that he must have believed in reincarnation in one or sev­ Need” 12. Album track not re­ 19. Pavement / Wowee and tabloid headlines. eral of his past lives. This is the best by­ leased as a single: Ahmad, Zowee They were the Joy Division Waking up one Monday morning, not feeling strange, product of all the wu- Ras Kass & Saafir / 20. Aminiature / M urk of the ’90s. _ j oUe Lash he decided to get a post office box and that no matter tangents that came outthis “Come Widdit” Time Cruiser how broke he was at any point in his life he was going to year. It’s a lot better than 13. Album: Raekwon —Noah Blumbeig Assured that nothing keep the same box. When he turned 21 he planned on the Method Man/Redman featuring Ghost Face will change on New Year’s leaving and never coming back or going back or staying collaboration, but Killer / Only Built 4 Cu­ Day, I’m thrilled that 1995 anywhere. That made a constant P.O. box necessary, and wouldn’t it be cool if they ban Linx 1. Radiohead / The is going to end soon, birthday cards, that he would never read, filled with cash started a group and called 14. Video: Bjork / “It’s Bends mostly ’cause the albums I made it profitable enough. it “Red Method”? Oh So Quiet” Radiohead, Radiohead, really liked all came out in Next door to the post office was a liquor store. Pete 15. Live show: The wherefore art thou, Radio­ 1994. That is my fault and bought a Coke there. He finished the Coke quickly and 2. Matthew Sweet — Beatnuts with Common head? Deny thy main­ it is annoying, but it is still went into the library next door. “We’re the Same” (Sense), UCSB’s Hub stream fame and become 20 years better than most He fell in love inside the library with a girl he consid­ What a pretty song. It 16. Album: The Muffs / indie stars or if thou wilt people in Isla Vista. Any­ ered ugly. She gave him the eye. Pete considered licking even has a good video. Blonder and Blonder not: Cheer up, matest ways, here’s my top three: his lips or doing something really obnoxiously seductive. 17. Single: Nate Dogg / Your self-loathing lyrical But the girl kept giving him the eye while he just stood 3. Folk Implosion — “One More Day” cries are wearing me thin. 1. Oasis / W hat’s the still, thinking. Pete then felt that this girl really under­ “Natural One” 18. Album: Aceyalone / And Thom, you are just a Story (Mominglory)? stood him in a very, very ancient way. This song from the Kids All Balls Don’t Bounce creep for being so low as to Exceptional, thought Dora Thang came home with Pete Shotton that day soundtrack captures the 19. Album: Matthew steal an “h” from your best provoking and fun. But and even waited in the hallway while Pete cleaned his theme of youth-gone- Sweet / 100% Fun friend Jonny. Give it back, the title song sucks, lead­ room thoroughly. Dora told Pete she loved him a week desperate a lot less self­ 20. Video: Weezer / man, give it back. ing me to believe that the later and she wanted to be together with him forever. consciously than does the “Say It Ain’t So” only projects that need “Impossible,” Pete said. movie. Also, it’s really cool 21. Album: Moby / Ev­ 2. elastica / elastica title songs are Andrew how the last lines of each erything Is Wrong No drivelheads exist in Lloyd Webber musicals Lyric of the Week: verse get tacked together 22. Live show: Cypress elastica’s “Line-Up” of and James Bond films. I to fill out the last chorus. Hill, Irvine Meadows three girls and a bloke. told my friend that Oasis is "My s t y l e 's b e e n m il k e d l ik e a Amphitheater They’re definitely not what the Fab 4 would BOTTLE OF YOO-HOO/ 'CUZ EVERY sound like if formed today, EMCEE MONKEY SEE MONKEY DO." 4. Mobb Deep — 23. Poorly dubbed tape I “S.O.F.T.,” even though ______-BAHAMADIA “Shook Ones PL 2” can’t find a good copy of they “Smile.” elastica is a but she just nodded her This song is beautiful. on vinyl or CD: Project hard, post-punk, pop head and pretended, like “We can,” said Dora. all fans of the Mother “I don’t think things work like that, Dora.” Queensbridge, N.Y., Biowed / Project Slow ed powerhouse not afraid of wordsmiths Havok and 24. Album: Self / Sub­ putting in an “All- Hips, to care about mod­ ‘They will.” ern music. Pete started thinking and realized that they may have Prodigy have a go at it with liminal Plastic Motives Nighter.” “2:1” students such well-constructed 25. EP: Milk. / Never agree that elastica is tops. already been together forever and would continue to be. 2. Foo Fighters / Foo He just didn’t know yet. rhymes as, “Your crew is D ated Get the “Connection”? featherweight / My gun­ —Eric Steuer Fighters “We can get married,” Pete said. Rewarding for everyone “Of course we will, Pete.” shots will make you levi­ tate.” Also good is the two- 3. Supergrass / I like me who has been Pete Shotton couldn’t believe how much his life had These are my favorites. Should Coco fighting foo for years while changed since Dora — his face even cleared up. He year-old original, “Shook Ones.” All of these were released 12 simple pure pop believing that Nirvana was blamed his clean face on the promise of having unpro­ in 1995. I was veiy strict tunes much better than Cobain’s tected sex before he turned 21. 5. The Nonce — “Mix about it. Too bad about 1 cracked mad-hatter— esoteric themes. I just got Married in the courthouse by a chubby man in a suit those late-’94 albums by I mean drummer into “For All the Cows,” and sandals, Dora asked Pete to take her to the doctor on Tapes” This was a single, right? Wedding Present and 3 goofballs the best song on the al­ the way to the honeymoon. That surprised Pete, but not American Music Club. 1 arrest by the fuzz bum, last Tuesday or extremely. He hadn’t bothered planning a honeymoon This might’ve been higher if they didn’t fay to get The new Ace of Base and (AKA the cops) Wednesday. yet, so he did so while she was with the doctor. Don Henley’s greatest hits Add ingredients in any Dora came out from the doctor’s office and told Pete away with rhyming “eighty-first” and “this was barely missed my top 20. order. Beat together furi­ 3. The Velvet Under­ that what she had between her legs had a better chance of Just kidding. ously. Scream and yell. ground / Peel Slowly and makingbread rise than him. Pete felt ill and began to plan first” in the first verse. —Tim MoUoy 1. Seam / Are You Driv­ Pour into ungreased pan, See an annulment. When he told her a few days later, Dora ing Me Crazy? adding pinches of punk I haven’t been able to af­ agreed immediately. 2. Broun Fellinis / A fro- and glam rock spices. Do ford it yet, but can I really After their separation, Dora returned to being Miss Hil These end-of-the- cubist Improvisations not allow to cool. Enjoy. afford not to buy it? Re­ Thang. She wouldn’t take any of Pete’s calls. She didn’t year lists sure are mastur- No. 9 commending an album talk to him at all until Pete happened to catch her while batory, huh? But they’re 3. Foo Fighters / Foo 4. Paul Weller/Stanley you don’t know (’specially she was waiting for a pizza restaurant to call back. also a lot of funl Here’s a Fighters Road a box set) is cause enough “So, Dora, how does it feel?” list of my favorite 25 things 4. Aceyalone / A ll Balls “That is a sexual album, to have your ghetto pass “Hmmm?” about 1995. Don’t Bounce that is,” said James, the revoked, but I stand by my ‘To be all on your own? With no direction home?” 5. Elliott Smith / E llio tt lanky blonde who hailed man, Lou Reed, and band, Realizing it was Pete, she didn’t answer for a few sec­ 1. Video: Method Man Sm ith from Bournemouth. James Velvet Underground. Buy onds, then she said, “Any way the wind blows doesn’t re­ & Redman / “How High” 6. Charlie Hunter / Bing, went away to college, only it before I do. And way be­ ally matter to me.” 2. Album: Tha Alkaho- Bing, Bing to learn the secrets found fore the Beatles Anthol­ Pete was about to tell Dora that he was going to try for liks / Coast II Coast 7. Fugazi / Red Medicine within rock ’n’ roll from ogy; there’s no synthetic the kingdom if he could because it made him feel like a 3. Live show: Foo Fight­ 8. Lois / Bet the Shy the self-proclaimed “Por­ Sterling Morrison, VU’s real man. But, Dora hung up or just stopped listening, he ers with Shudder to 9. Genlus/GZA / Liquid celain God” himself, Paul recently deceased guitar­ couldn’t figure it out. Think, San Diego’s SOMA Swords Weller. He only bought ist, on this one. 4. Album: KRS-ONE / 10. Unwound / The Fu­ r------the album because he —Jason Sattler Need GE requirements? EMERALD VIDEO presents.. $1.00 OFF Japan 159 6545 Pardall Rd. CALVIN & HOBBES ANY RENTAL Isla Vista, CA 968-6059 By Bill Watterson with this comic (void with other offer) Japanese Cinema COUPON GOOD AT TIME OF RENTAL ONLY An introductory survey of major Japanese direc­ TEMI, UK£ SANTAS DERANGED EVIL 5ANTA WOULD «NE ML tors and the relationship of cinema to Japanese TWIN BROTHER, OR SOMETHIN« THE DANGEROUS, ANNCWING, culture and society. HE'D MAKE TOSS FOR M i. THE AMD CORRUPTING TOSS toUR PARENTS WONT M10W.' 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Various Artists Blues Fest: Modem Blues o f the 70s Rhino “I wish they’d had electric guitars in the cot­ ton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of 4th Annual Santa Barbara things would’ve been straightened out.” —Jimi Hendrix Lesbian & Gay Certainly, rock ’n’ roll is the bastard son of the blues, and tracing blues in­ Film Festival fluences through popular music is a hall of fame of December 7—10, 1995 sorts. Led Zeppelin, the Fiesta Five Theatre • 916 State Street Doors, the Beatles, Eric Student Passes Available Clapton, The Who and on and on. Call (805) 882-0233 for more information. The great one’s (Hen­ drix’s) influences — Muddy Waters, Albert ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ King, Robert Johnson and ★ ★ B.B. King among others — have all been well cele- ★ ★ brated in numerous ★ &V ★ compilations. ★ ★ But what of the blues ar­ that supply a historical it off). places a premium on as­

★ (0 tists who have thrived into context for the songs. Tubes humming in the tute phrasing, and it pays 9 r e e n ★ the last quarter of the 20th Albert King kicks the background, Luther Alli­ off in a moving, deep soul ★ ★ centuiy? Where is their disc off with his 1974 hit, PRESENTS son kicks into a wicked groove. ★ tribute? “That’s What the Blues Is self-titled piece named Like its namesake, the Rhino Records answers All About.” King puts all “Luther’s Blues.” Borrow­ blues are for depression — ívoummvjiümkom ★ that question with Blues the weight of his six-foot- ing incendiary blues lines dimeless, woman just left ★ Fest: Modem Blues o f the plus frame into his clean from the late Albert Col­ * M UHM (. ilflOII ya, hopeless alcoholic de­ ★ ★ ’70s, ‘80s and ’90s. Three vibrato, and the song lins (who wasn’t on the pression. This is where the separate discs, one for comes off as a masterful disc?!), Allison wields his album’s best track comes ★ Aries (March 21-April 19). Travel plans may be disrupted today, so be ★ each decade, try to capture flexible. Be wary of a person who wants to dominate you. A patty could piece of blues. However, it Strat with reckless crawling in, stinking of ★ lead to romance tonight You could rekindle an old flame, or a friendship ★ the greatest and most in­ should be noted that King abandon. cheap whiskey and lost could develop into something more intimate. fluential blues works of ★ ★ recorded much better, but Another standout on hope. Taurus (April 20-May 20). Things should calm down as the day goes their decade. The shortest not as commercially suc­ the disc is Hound Dog You can feel the cold, ★ on. Don’t let an old grudge keep you from asking for help if you need it ★ disc is around 75 minutes cessful, tracks during his Taylor & The House hard city streets as Jimmy ★ This afternoon’s a good time togo shopping, especially for domestic items (for once, CD technology ★ long and distinguished Rockers, who throw down Johnson cries his plea in “I ★ or food. You may find a massive bargain on case lots. equals a bargain). career. some serious mojo with Need Some Easy Money.” Gemini (May 21-June 21). Your plans could turn out different from ★ Reviewing all 53 tracks Perhaps the one flaw their down-home original, That song, and not the ★ what you expected today. If you’re prepared, it could be a wonderful ★ would be impractical, so with the disc is its empha­ “Sadie.” One of the disc’s adventure. If you’re not, you’ll And out what you should have studied! Be smoothed-out blues being ★ ★ I’ll stick to the first disc, sis on popular blues songs. gems is “Your Love Is Like peddled by artists trying to stingy with your money and save your love for an old friend. Modem Blues of the ’70s. Some of the finest work in a Cancer,” performed by cash in on an art forgi, is ★ Cancer (June 22-July 22). If you find yourself snapping at dogs and ★ Like the other discs, this the genre never reached a The Son Seals Blues Band. the blues. Live it, leilfn it ★ little children for no reason, try to relax. Tomorrow will be better. Keep ★ one is accompanied by an radio (except when popu­ your goals in mind and don’tlet changes in your schedule get you rattled. Drenched in a blues-funk and love it. , ★ excellent set of liner notes lar white musicians ripped oigan, Seals’ guitar work —Peter Sansom You always eventually get your own way. Call a friend long-distance tonight ★ ★ Leo (July 23-Aug. 22). Pay attention in traffic; other people may be ★ even more confused than you are! If you’re plagued by nagging doubts, ★ ask an objective friend to help you get rid of them. A sports activity should ★ ★ be loads of fun tonight, once you get done with your chores. ★ ★ Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You may feel incapable of even the most ★ trifling decision this morning. If so, don’t make any. Gather mote infor­ ★ mation first An argument at home could be upsetting, tf you take it too ★ u r n ★ seriously. Don’t make a lag deal out of nothing. ★ I Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). This morning, you should feel like writing A ll Change ★ Polydor ^ letters. You may have to edit them, however, to make sure you’re not ★ telling too much! If you want to impress an older person tomorrow, don’t ★ stay up too late talking with your best friend tonight! John Power is a leprec­ ★ ★ haun. He is short and elfin Scorpio (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). If you’re planning something difficult, put ★ it off until tomorrow. With luck, maybe you can get somebody else to do ★ cute with curly blond hair. ★ it! A drive by the water and dinner out would be very nice tonight. If you With his "Scouser” (Liver­ can’t afford it by yourself, maybe you could share expenses. ★ pool) accent, he sounds ★ Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). You have plenty of ideas, but you may ★ iike a chipmunk with a ★ have trouble putting them into logical order! Look over your options and ★ sore throat — a chipmunk choose one. Your sweetie may be making unreasonable demands on your who’s been lucky enough ★ resources. Give all your attention, but not all your money, tonight ★ to get another 15 minutes ★ Capricorn (D ec 22-Jan. 19). Concentrate on a difficult task today. If ★ of fame with his current it’s not in your area of expertise, you may have to request professional band, Cast. However, ★ assistance Your luck, and mood, should improve tonight Schedule a spe­ ★ Power’s success lies in his ★ cial dinner engagement with a nurturing person. ★ amazing talents as a song­ ★ Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). You may have to do things a certain way in ★ writer and as a magical order to get your point across today. Don’t fight it, conform. In romance, musician. ★ your friend may be acting unusually possessive. You’ll probably do well to ★ In the late '80s, Power ★ go along on that, too, if your best interests ate being served. ★ was the bassist for the La’s. Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20). Even the most stressful situation will seem Their biggest hit, “There ★ funny later, so you might as well try to see the humor in it now! Semi­ ★ She Goes,” was massive in ★ solitary confinement, with a carefully selected playmate, could be the most ★ the U.K. The band broke ★ pleasant way to spend this evening. In other words, have dinner in. ★ up after one album. Power Today’s Birthday (Dec. 7). You should be sharp as a tack this year. learned guitar and is now ★ Plan a move now that will benefit your career. In December, an invest­ ★ fronting the Liverpudlian ★ ment may be required. Try something unusual. Practice at home to im­ ★ quartet Cast. prove your skills in March. In June, a friend’s annoying criticism is prob­ Their debut, A l l ★ ably right You may have to do some belt-tightening in July. In October, ★ Change, was released by rock with '90s pop. nothing but a man,” Power ★ follow advice from a powerful person who loves you and join the right ★ swept away by its swirling team. Polydor. Rumor has it that The album springs out sings. rhythms and intricate me- ★ ★ Cast, being hunted by tons of the starting gate with “Finetime,” their first lodical patterns. of record companies wish­ “Alright.” Power and his single, is a cross between ★ Finals Special ★ ing to sign them, made mates, guitarist Liam Guns N’ Roses’ “Paradise With brilliant tunes of ★ ★ themselves scarce until “Skin” Tyson, Peter Wilk­ City” and “Cat’s in the mass appeal (Pearl Jam- ★ ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT ★ Polydor came around — inson on bass and nutty Cradle” by Harry Chapin. mies would like them), so they could be on the Keith O’Neill on drums, It’s Cast’s worthy attempt Cast seems not of this ★ ★ same label as The Who. rock ’n’ roll assuredly to at reaching for shimmering earth. Maybe Power is a le­ ★ 10-VEGETABLE ★ Although music writers the perfect pop song, com­ chart star status. prechaun. 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