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PAGE 20 THE RETRIEVER FEATURES March 5, 1996 Bwah Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha From EVEN MORE ANDY, Page 19 going here, the bonus cuts are nice, posed to tell you? some of the attitudes. tries to dance about a bit and looks and things never get too bland. Hey people, guess what I got! One- That attitude being the WACKY unhip. Cut to images of bombed This album is a little to machine Yet, things never get too bland is fourth of the new Barkmarket album attitude. Here we have "King ygg^g^ Bosnia. Dramatic footage of women based, but some of the tunes are the problem, because things never and so you should buy the album!!! Cheezamin"; it may be cute to some, holding a "don't let them kill" sign. catchy. You know that this was prob- really get too far off. Sure there's a This group is like Hasil Adkins, the but to me it's an obvious attempt to (Unfortunately, history buffs,lit ably recorded in a studio with zero groove here and a groove there, but Palace brothers, the Red Hot Chili be WACKY. This will result in people doesn't add "and by the way, sorry budget, probably on old tapes, yet never anything sustained to the point Peppers, Everclear, and a few punk thinking that the band is CRAZY and for being Nazi sympathizers." .... that rawness still doesn't make a of WOW. __ ^ they will buy the album and Hey, perspective is important.) Bono good album. Now, the tunes aren't m -' Oh, kids - there's a few drug ((„ ... ., . ^ , , , more albums will result. looks like he is being important. terrible, but they're really not that Yet even mth their references on this album, so attempts to be Yet even with their attempts C . ' - Bono hugs, emotionally, a stunned good. It seems that things just never • cover your ears. hoilS there is an attti-WACKINESS to be loons there is an anti- Pavarotti. get anymore than an inch above flat. Oh, and this album may not be ^y ved era- WACKINESS to their madness, Video For "Vesti La Giubba": However, there is a neat little song fe madness A contri schwag, but it s not kindbud ei- # A contrived craziness that cul- Has Michael Bolton singing in a called "World Gone Reggae" that has ther. zineSS that Culminates in the al- minates in the already stale "is foreign tongue; actually he doesn't a vocal reminiscent of Snagglepuss. Topcat King of the Jungle: ready Stale Hs VOUr CD player your CD player fucked up trick- Wah Diddy" (Not the Manford Mann do too bad considering the It's a smidgen below average. The @@l/5 track" song), I have liked Leon Redbone. overdramatics of it all, but dram of beats don't beat and the music don't >» fucked up trick-track, " ___ Kicks in the face to whom- So I was delighted to find his Red to song makes one giggle. Pavarotti flow. Part 7: TITANIUM? ever decided to put this on the Blue album among my collection of struggles. (Are these people really his Junior Reid and the Bloods Junior tunes put in a blender (at least that's album. albums to review. I said to myself, friends?) Reid and the Bloods: @6/7 Every once in awhile I get a RAS what I felt after a whopping 3 songs). Anyway Cheer-Accident will not "That there will be a fine album to Video For "Linger": Best of the Best CD, and this time it's Well it's not bad, and it didn't piss be missed if you decide to pass it up. review," and I was right. Dolores and Simon Le Bon. Part 6: SPACE Best of the Best Vol 4: The DJs. Now me off. Sure, it's not going to score Should change album title to Not I just love Leon and his Louie Dolores just can't stop smiling. Le with a title like Best of the Best you'd points with the hardcore under- A Bit Funny. Armstrong-esque vocals. Red to Blue Bon dances away, probably to fight Topcat, a Hanna Barbara cartoon want it to be good, right? ground, but what does? Cheer-Accident Not A Food: @ 1/ offers 12 tunes to fill your Leon fix. urge to break into an impromptu feline or the latest RAS records re- SORRY NO GOOD HERE. Barkmarket Sampler: @@l/2 3 Not a duff song here! "Hungry Like the Wolf." Le Bon cording artist — guess which one I'm The whole album is straight bland. If you like '30s tune stylings and a shakes something in his hand, looks going to review? No spice. No thrill. Just boring songs, Part 9: YOU Part 11: IT'S lot of tuba, you should run right down like an egg. Short haircut spoils oT That's right, I love Topcat, that ras- but hey, you might like it and who to your local record store, drive your Duran Duran "good look'n" boy im- cal ly feline, always cool always hip, the hell am I? Well, it's no secret to regular read- Danny Frankel wins the 45 of the truck through the front door and then age for Le Bon. the most tiptop ... Topcat. Twelve DJ mixes that couldn't cop ers of this column that I love dubs, week award for Jupiter, Now! open fire on the people inside. After Video For "Ave Maria": GOT YA ... BWAH HA HA HA a groove; why? and that rule stays in check with Of course, his 45 is the only 45 of you do this, I will laugh at you, be- Dolores just falls flat. (Did they, I HA HA Although this doesn't reach the Rupununi Safari's Steaming Jungle. the week, so the award doesn't mean cause that wouldn't be too bright on like, hate her or something; after )0 Topcat's new album King of the nadir of Limblifter, Best of the Best Not a bad track here. All the dubs much of anything. However, I would your part. Anyway, I think this would seconds Pavarotti should have saved • Jungle is not a bad little collection doesn't live up to it's title. are sweet and stay on top of things. like to say that I enjoyed this little make a nice addition to the CD area, her, but no.) Pavarotti takes his time, ol reggae. There are some good riffs Best of It grooves when it should groove and collection of drums and sustained just don't put it to close to the Tom probably to suppress laughter. Cuts the Best Vol mellows when it should mellow. It guitar stabs. With four cuts, two per Waits. to an outclassed Dolores. (But even 4:The DJs: also makes damned good car music. side at 45 rpm, this is short and sweet. Leon Redbone Red to Blue: @@@ with Pavarotti, where's a castrato @l/5 Well, it's Sugar, Salsa, and Some- Plus Danny's got Congo Powers when you need one?) thing else all wrapped up into a nice whom you may remember for help- Part 13: SPACE! Video For "One": Part 8: little dub package. ing the Cramps out on Psychedelic Good because audience chimes in. YES! Purchase. , Jungle. Hell doesn't stop with CD. Bono looks like Robin Williams. Rupununi Safari's Steaming The 45 is on Win records which Along with my Luciano Pavarotti Lots of motion shots of audience. I got a Jungle: @@@ can be reached at: and friends benefit CD, I got a promo Part 14: YES! sampler of WIN Records video. Now I could try to make sense Part 10: MEAN Post Box 26811 Barkmarket, of my notes but I won't, so here they L.A.,CA. 90026-0811 are in raw transcribed form. Next week, Horizons New Con- so do I itali- When I first started listening to Send away for a catalogue and get Everybody seems dead. quering!!! cize the title Cheer-Accident's Not A Food, I yourself a copy of this little gem. Pavarotti looks uncomfortable a Sampler! thought I was in for a real treat. Darned good stuff here. lot. The video has those stupid MTV This cas- I was wrong. Three @ good stuff. titles. Informs you that Bono, the sette (ugh, This group is like a bunch of kids Danny Frankel Jupiter, Now!: Edge and Brian Eno are on two cassette) has BSU just make'n noise. Sure, it's fun for @@@ tracks. three songs awhile, but nothing too special is Video "For Miss Sarajevo": on it. going on here. Just guitar crunch try- Part 12: FROM Bono is pushing the "I'm singing Perspective: What the ing to pass for cutting edge. Some of something important and I'm happy" hell am I sup- the vocals are irritating and also is Ever since I heard his song "Diddy image. Pavarotti struggles, actually Eddie 1 P R I N CTl P L~E S -- o JT S O UN D R,K,. X I RE M EN X IN VEST I 1ST W Conway From BSU, Page 19 were sought out for ruin because of their attempts to free and uplift their community. Now, because there is no other way of explaining this man's incarceration except that his politics were consid- ered subversive, this is irrefutable proof that the answer to the question "Are there political prisoners in the United States?" is yes, and if the case of Eddie Conway is not enough for one to believe, then merely look at the well known case of Mumia Abu Jamal or the lesser known cases of Geronimo Pratt or Leonard Peltier or Sundiata Acoli.

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