- Moriday, April 13, 1937 8 Daily Ncbrcskan Pago has no interest in art of signif- titled solo album and the international Wild hit "Kids in America." Although she icance. From moment "Never was overlooked on these shores, the Change" Review Board basically of numbers she a following in (one the greatest Byrds developed large someone other than the and Australia and for a good ever played by Europe off the turntable till the Siouxsie and the Banshees, reason. Her first album was a brooding, Byrds) jumps of I Hate the Six- "Through the Looking Glass" harsh into the maladies of closing irony "Why glimpse devil-may-ca- Jr. Gene Wild displays a re i (Gefien) youth with a quirky, if not complemen- ties," Siouxsie Sioux has had numerous and urgency that is, in the final 1 tary, blend of guitar synthesizer monikers attached to her 1 totally winning. r r dirgelike, backdrops. Although she was only 5 at evaluation, Of if asked them to name gloomy music and her wailing (bansh- the she came off sounding like a course, you time, ven- ee-like, Call a d of course) vocals. her pint-size- pop-oriente- version of Patti their influences, they'd probably into total no like Aero-smit-h rock'n'roll Sylvia Plath or a punk Billie Smith on a bubblegum binge. ture sequiturs and but that's Holiday if you will, but labels aside, But then the angst of her youth sud- Emmylou Harris, musicianese for "It's none of she's been one of the most tenacious ended and she let producers turn just your denly business who influences female musicians of the new music her into a mindless, technopop disco stinking my scene. She's survived barbs from caus- diva a la Sheena Easton and Stacey Q. are." fun and tic critics and the emphemeral capri- It all started with her puerile second Completely completely mindless with no excuses. And the ces of the haircut set, and has managed LP, and ends miserably with pop "Select," Venus De Milo with somehow to maintain a standard of her latest and worst effort to date, album cover, is a beaut even real poetic, artistic and offbeat excellence. "Another Step." Popeye's arms, by standards. On 'Through the Looking Glass," Wilde wrote all the songs here and critical her of the Lieursnce Siouxsie perpetuates image sings them with her usual tragic song- Charles a tortured observer, peppering patiche stress soul, but one would never know Album Courtesy of Pickles of unlikely cover tunes with enough if because most of her voice and lyrics Records FOR D U A M T . moodiness to make them "Eoo-Boo- " 5 o ISC O NT i dexterity and are buried under an obnoxious pile of Big Dipper, (Home- STORE part of her realm. some of the most overproduced elec- stead) I from She borrows songs from the icons tronic since the days of 70s Hailing Brookline, Mass., Big USE like the Doors' rhythms who shaped her identity, disco. Dipper displays eclecticism above and call of Their sound is "You're Lost, Little Girl," Iggy Pop's The hit single "You Keep Me Hang- beyond the duty. Bob 'This somewhere between the and Tel- "The Passenger," Dylan's ing On," a remake of a song that's been Byrds Wheel's On Fire" and Billie Holiday's remade more times than it deserves, is evision on the opening cut, "Faith One of oddest cho- with its tense Richard "Strange Fruit." the the best example of the album's lack of Healer," Lloyd "Trust and laid-bac- effortless ices is in Me," originally sung by any musical plausibility. And the rest guitar part constrictor in harmonies. Bill a cartoon boa Disney's just seem to drone together, waiting for Byrds Dipper guitarists "The Jungle Book." someone to dance to them. Goffrier and Gary WaJeik continue their tend to Lloyd-Verlain- e The problem is that they "Another Step" is Kim Wilde's final interplay throughout. second "San blend into one flowing, wandering, descent into the depths of pop pablum, The song, Quentin, Louriic: which is more in line with Led whiny unit usually quite proving that talent can be pathetically CA," puts Dipper OALH "Whole Lotta a OFF evoking when the eerie guitars, violins, wasted for a good dance beat. Zeppelin, reworking the synthesizers and Siouxsie's vocals are Scott Harrah Love" riff in a raucous cowpunk set- with Siouxsie's lyrics. But ting. Of the album's six inspired, quirky 2137-- A Cornhus!:cr I put together lightay juxtaposed with cover tunes, they just Jr. Gene Wild, "Less Art, More tunes, none is particularly like the 477-641- 0 don't seem to work. Only the cover of Pop" (BYO Records) other. There's a sound in there some- Holiday's "Strange Fruit" captures the Jr. Gene Wild plays the same joyful, where (probably the tension between Open to 1 am. Every Night! unsettling lynch imagery ofthe original. light, chiming pop that everybody else their countrified vocals, tendency Perhaps this is the album Siouxsie on the block plays, making you wonder toward galloping bass and scraping Sun Country Coolers . . . 4 pk, all flavors . . . wmcold . . . .$2.49 always wanted to record a collection how the stuff ever got into the record sophisticated lead guitar parts makes But Wild Irish Rose . . . 750 ml . . . three flavors $1.77 of her favorites. Unfortunately, the bins marked "alternative." the for the best material) but at this point, spirit she insets into each track is band plays with such fervor and the the variety displayed her is the band's Keller-Geist- er ... 750 ml 2 for $5 hardly commensurate with the origi- production is so gleaming that you most promising characteristic. Kessler . . . Liter $3.45 nal, and one begins to wonder why she almost forget you've heard the same Side two's "Wrong in the Charts" is Old Milwaukee . . . case, warm $3.09 didn't bother to simply write some sounds on the last nine albums you the weakest thing here, coming off the more of her own songs. "Through the blocks like a remake of the Hopfenperle-Switzerla- nd . . . 6 pk . . . warm $2.99 played. scorching Looking Glass" is her unintentional But Jr. Gene Wild manages to create "Rawhide" theme and basically run- Nordik Wolf-Swed- en . . . 6 . . . warm $3.59 pk way of isolating herself and her band its own innocuous niche here. They're ning out of ideas and steam halfway Pilsner-Pennsylva- Yuengling nia . . . 6 pk . . . warm $3.84 from her own vision. If only she had too happy-soundin- g to fall into the through. The closing whoa-oh-who- a decided to leave singing cover songs to Connells, Winter Hours groove. They're choruses are plain awful. Come to Pia Zadora and Linda Ronstadt peo- not or odd to be of most of side two is Other I re experimental enough think it, Specials! who lack the invention that has into the Let's Active school. We feature 191 and Beers for ple lumped disappointing. Imported Specialty your enjoyment p always flowed through the Banshee's They just move their retro-po- along at The closing song, "Loch Ness Mons- career. a hundred miles an hour and pay cyni- ter," is just dumb. AT SUITE 9 YOU HAVE A CHOICE! Scott Harrah cal bastards like me no mind whatsoever. Side one easily makes up for the Even the heavier cuts with pseudo-message- s how- 2137 COflNHUSKER 477-641- 0 inadequacies of the second side, Kim Wilde, "Another Step" like "God the Father," where ever and a forthcoming full album will (MCA) the band strings together every cliche tell which side they're on. Five years ago, Kim Wilde, the about Christianity not being very, uh, Charles Lieurance daughter of British pop legend Marty Christian, never really phase you. But Album Courtesy of Pickles Wilde, launched her career with a self-- as the title of the album says, Jr. Gene Records

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