Barenaked Ladies Bare Their

24 I SIGNAL Tuesday^ September 26, 2000 Barenaked Ladies bare 'Wide angle' trance their 'maroon' side inclusion of real lyrics with themes into their songs, without allowing the lyrics and singing to overpower the beats. It's a clever Dollars"—sorry, but Maroon just "Buried in the din of rotor noise way to get structure into their doesn't hit that spot. The closest and close explosions/1 do my best songs without breaking up the Barenaked Ladies come to that to synthesize the sounds and my free flow that defines trance. joy ride of wild abandon on this emotions/ This is where the allies The album contains several album is "Never Do Anything," bombed the school/ They say by standout tracks, something that is a song that has interesting, mistake." unusual in a type of music in although somewhat juvenile, The album closes with which usually songs usually be lyrics, but the music itself doesn't another moving track, "Tonight," come one big blur of sound. The grab you. which takes a unique twist on track "Sinbequanon" stands out The first single, "Pinch Me," making a statement of love. The due to the inclusion of a slight is a mellow tune with song gives a graphic description reggae vibe in the production and Barenaked Ladies : Maroon introspective lyrics and one of the of a man's last moments while vocals. best on the album. The single also he's in a car wreck: "I'm just a Tunes Another standout track is the exemplifies the "new" Barenaked posthumous part of the scene/ 86% the grade is absolutely beautiful "Kid 2000," Ladies. Now I'm floating above and which swoops up and down with Tunes | Maroon is more mature, and looking in/ As the radio blares and an almost classical grace to it. It's 85% somewhat "darker" in nature the wheels spin/1 can see my face the grade is R.J. Walker definitely the premier track on the (lyrically) than the previous slump with a grin/ And Contributing Writer whole CD. It's a song that fits albums. Musically, it's the same you.. .you're the last thing on my just about any mood. Some other well-crafted pop tunes with a few mind." absolutely jamming songs on the Stacey L. Evans smart innovations, but it's mostly "Sell Sell Sell" warns against I have to admit, out of all of CD are "If I Survive" and Arts & Entertainment Editor comprised of the stuff you've believing everything you hear and the kinds of "electronic music" "Dreaming Your Dreams." These heard before. Not that that makes see, especially on t.v., and touches out now, trance is by far my least are definitely songs that you want the album terrible, it's just truth about our society with its favorite one. It doesn't have the to invite some friends over to lis Maroon is a middle-ground, nothing spectacular either. lyrics. bite of drum and bass or the im ten to. respectable color—it's not bold This album has songs like While maintaining quality minent danceability of house. It However, Hybrid does mis and daring like red, fluffy and "Go Home" and "Off the Hook" throughout the Don Was- just sort of hangs there, begging step sometimes on their album. "girlie" like pink, bright like that dive a little deeper produced album, Maroon just for some sort of chemical process Although it's not a bad song, "I'll orange or dull like brown, but lies emotionally. There are also a few doesn't take off. There are some to speed up the proceedings. Survive" sounds like something somewhere in between all four. "political" songs on the album, funny songs, some touching The brilliance of trance art out of BT's trash bin, although his The same, can be said about giving it a more serious tone. songs and quite a few clever ists such as BT and Paul Van trash bin is better than most Maroon, the sixth (yes sixth) "Helicopter" depicts a war scene lyrics, but something is lacking in Dyck is easy to understand, but people's. Some songs on the al release from the Barenaked through the thoughts of a soldier, making Maroon a great album. also harder to process over ex bum sound like they were done Ladies. commenting on the inhumanity of Maybe it's the unexpected tended periods of time without before earlier on the album, which For those of you looking for fighting wars and how the media seriousness of the usually fun some sort of chemical depen takes away some of the replay another taste of the spunky yet covers it with a desensitized view. Ladies that make it sound (with dency. Hybrid enters this tattered value of the CD. touching mayhem that was "One Barenaked Ladies' show their some exception) like 90% of the fray with their new album, Wide Overall, the album is simply Week" or "If I Had a Million skill in writing with the lyrics other stuff out there. Angle. slamming, but the production Hybrid offers something new tends to be repetitive at times. 'Dancer' a sad and moving tale to the whole trance framework: it When Hybrid works on the little really has the beats to get you problem, they will definitely be moving. The group offers some the preeminent band in drum and uncontrollably- and it almost guises her rapidly deteriorating block-rocking beat, without deny bass. Right now they're the only Flicks, came to that- is not high on my eyesight so she can keep work ing the laid-back feel that trance the upstart, rattling the cages of the grade is 85% list of fun things to do. Particu ing: she is trying to save enough gives people. It's a pleasure to the establishment. larly when in public. money to pay for an operation that rock to the beat without getting However, this is definitely a 2. Surprise! It's a musical! will save her son's vision. A ma into real aerobics. recommended listen and a maybe Which of course means that at any jor theme of the story is Selma's A nice touch that Hybrid of buy due to the feelings some of Martine Lackey given moment the cast may burst self-sacrifice for her son. We see fers to the trance cannon is the the better songs provoke. Contributing Writer into song and synchronized dance it throughout the film and toward routines- and in this case, it is the end, where Selma must make Bjork belting out gutteral intona the choice between death for her EMPLOYMENT FAR If you're into self-torture, tions in her usual style that the self or blindness for her son. then this is the movie for you! audience must endure. Now, I'm not saying the film For Job Seekers with Disabilities Dancer in the Dark, a film star Set in a rural American town is lacking in merit. The actors ring Bjork (yes, the singer) and in the 1950's, the film portrays the were good (Bjork was very good), Friday, September 29,9 am - 3 pm Catherine Deneuve (a sixty-ish life of Selma (played by Bjork), the plot interesting and complex... French actress) is exceedingly a Czechoslovakian immigrant I just don't prize movies for the AmericasMart Atlanta disturbing on two levels: who is employed as a factory extent of their sadness, and points 1. It is the most depressing worker. Selma is a single mother, will usually be taken off for MU Meet with recruiters from Top Corporation* movie I've ever seen. Sobbing and she is going blind. She dis SICALS! And Government Agencies! These employers need to fill jobs that require these skills: TTt _ Accounting-Business-Information Technology-Administration US , 3> . 4$ 1 Engineering-Scienoe-Finance-Clerical ~r m * "M % iJ-fo Sponsored by the " President's Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities To pro-register on-line: showgfoxproductionsinc.com Special | Signal To pro-register by fax: (248)656-5655 Bjork plays Selma. an immigrant and single mother who takes refuge from hardships of working in a factory by imagining her and her co-workers are in Hollywood musicals. .

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