The Tiger Time Out! Vol. 1 Issue 6 1994-02-24
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^>J^/ ; '''':-.:;~;!*:L1:;3&:;-:;'i Clemson's Guide to Entertainment & the Arts Volume I, No. 6 Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina February 24, 1994 Five-Eight to play Edgar1 s tonight Five-Eight Weirdo *••■& by Josh Kesterson assistant editor "So now you know that I want to take my life and I stand here with my favorite serrated knife...But I'm no weirdo." Lyrics like these are not atypical on Five-Eight's new album Weirdo. They can be found scattered amidst the guitar and drums within the continuity of the 11 songs. Tori Amos Five-Eight collectively, Sean Dunn (gui- tar), Patrick Ferguson (drums), Dan Edsel Horowitz (bass) and Mike Mantione (gui- tar, vocals), weaves a punk-like, guitar- Moxy Fruvous based rock with lyrical psychosis. Rarely do bands offer a sincere (twisted) vision of reality without causing people to Patty Torno/Sky Records Digital question the sincerity of the message as do these guys do. Mike Mantione's lyrics are Five-Eight: (l,r): Mantione, Ferguson, Horowitz, Dunn. These Underground never insincere. He sings from experience Weirdos from Athens play Edgar's tonight. and contemplation. Planet Rap The songs cover a haunting range of really happening. envision Five-Eight becoming popular topics about humanity encompassing pre- What is happening is that Five-Eight is nationwide. marital sex, masturbation, homosexuality fast becoming a popular band and with So check this album out so you can say and not being accepted by society. Each good reason. On Weirdo, their second full- "Hey, I listened to them before they were page 2 song deals with a different idea, yet they length recording, Five-Eight has out done cool." are all coherent and intertwined from the themselves. If you really want to be cool, go see Five- first track "Mystery James" to the last song With Mike's raspy soprano voice and Eight tonight at Edgar's. The show starts "Shouldn't be Here." fender-bending guitar, Patrick's gut- at 10 p.m. So don't be a weirdo. Go get a To have to name one track as the best wrenching drumbeats, not to mention Sean few bucks before the banks close, see a Blondie would be slanderous. This album needs to Dunn's rhythm-breaking guitar and Dan great band and look for an interview/ be listened in its entirety to feel what's Horowitz's bass-slapping. It is not hard to concert review next week. page 3 Now Playing ... Seinfeld Compaiion A guide to TV's best show ' '": intep-taiiisi Hangover Atomic Handbook toiipperJobs: imfeteTV's j page 6 h wmmm *it» t«mn*;t»etu« m Dancing Pants The Entertainment Weekly & Seinfeld Companion Time-Out's by Bruce Fretts Election ••• by Sean Cook Surprise editor Just who was the pervert in the park with the present in his Erik Martin/head photographer pants? Comedy of Errors is playing at the Brooks If you answered, "Why, he's the the shadowy figure from page 3 Kramer's childhood whom he remembers while he's being Center this weekend. Call the box office at grilled during the Smog Strangler case in episode 41 of NBC's 656 2461 for more details. hit series Seinfeld," then you must have been reading The see Seinfeld, page 6 1 February 24,1994 Page 2 TJME^QUT! Tori Amos1 soul found deep Under the Pink single from Under the Pink, Girls, but in a style that is by L. Clator Butler, Jr. deals with religious awakening uniquely Tori. Amos plans to follow up the stiff writer from the traumatized perspec- tive: "God sometimes you just album with several singles, each containing unreleased material, In a follow up to a debut album don't come through/ Do you just as she did with the first which reached over 1,000,000 need a woman to look after album. All in all, thirteen listeners two years ago, Tori Amos you?" The video is more bizarre unreleased songs ended up on brings forth her second effort than the song, with its images of CD singles from Little Earth- which is far from sophomoric. In charismatic religious services. quakes and the same is to be 1992, Amos wooed fans on Little "Past the Mission" incorporates expected from Under the Pink. Earthquakes by employing clas- a reggae verse with a smooth, .riai She also plans to tour with this sical piano styles mixed with pas- harmony-rich chorus, in the release, accompanied only by sionate, in-depth vocals pushing grain of the Police. her grand piano, providing au- lyrics of a battle-hardened woman. "The Waitress" is musically diences with a concert sound- The new recording, Under the paradoxical, in its quiet urge to ing as pure and raw as her Pink, explores further musical kill somebody counteracted by music is at heart. territory and lyrical ground. "If its violently loud proclamation But who is Tori Amos really? there's a theme on Under the of peace. "Cornflake Girl" was The grown-up musician who was Pink, it's one of self-empower- inspired by the Alice Walker a child prodigy...the daughter ment," says Amos about the new novel Possessing the Secret of of a minister who resents the record. The words come out Joy. It deals with being a little expectations put on her by harsher and more emotional than different against the plainness society...the beautiful philo- Little Earthquakes; Amos has of society. "I don't see my self sophical goddess that mesmer- dug deeper into her soul to bring as weird," says Amos. "I find the izes audiences, cameras and out the themes for the record. truth endlessly interesting." critics...or the simple woman As a light piano opens the Amos' strongest work is the who has learned to cope with album, somewhat reminiscent of groove-oriented "Space Dog." pain by using music as her George Winston's December, Here she finds the best mix of Amos sings "Pretty Good Year" - several instruments which do therapy- Tori Amos is all these things a song of realization and actual- not overpower the grace of her and more. But nobody describes ization. Sonic whiplash occurs as piano. Harmonies of mis- her better than she herself does: Cindy I'almano/Allantic Records track two, "God," screeches in matched lyrics end the song in "I just see myself as honest. Tori Amos moves from Little Earthquakes to with raunchy guitar parts and a glorious, anthemic montage similar to that of the Indigo That's just the way I am." Under the Pmfc with her sophomore effort. funk bass lines. This, the first Canada. In 1993, they released hope that this album was an acci- serious look at important world Bargainville, their debut with dent. issues. Since their instant popu- Warner, in the U.S. through At- If you want to hear some de- larity with the "Humpty Dance," lantic. They should have gone cent music and some amusing this group has not had a song to political commentary, try some- equal its success. This album Rating System: with pig-calling. Most of their music ideas seem thing of your own and listen to lacks the distinct sound and fla- •••••Excellent to have been borrowed from the Rush Limbaugh. vor that is synonymous with Digi- •••• Pretty Good likes of They Might Be Giants; tal Underground and Humpty ••• Good When I compared "Spiderman," «f«j0&*l Hump. •• Fair song number 14 on Bargainville, * Poor to "Particle Man" (TMBG), I no- * Half ticed that they were almost the rap same. Only "Particle Man" exhib- its some originality and humor. A few of Moxy Fruvous' songs are reminiscent of the musical con- \^\ tent of TMBG's "Istanbul (not Constantinople)," but again, they lack the talent and, equally im- portant, the originality. Digital The art of combining odd mix- Various Artists tures of instrumentation and atypi- Underground Planet Rap cal lyrics is exactly that, an art; It The Body-Hat Syndrome •'•-& is not a style that four promising pig-callers can just go and imi- it by Maurice Watson Moxy Fruvous tate, expecting the same response staff critic Edsel that the original artist(s) received. bji Tyrone Washington The Everlasting Belt Co. Bargainville "1/2 Off," "Real Deal," the staff critic Rap's everywhere! Tommy Boy Records has gone out and com- ••• ft cover says. I wouldn't take it if they gave it away. The music Digital Underground has fi- posed a album of rappers from Australia to Germany and Canada by Dan Winans shows off Moxy Fruvous' lack of nally emerged from a long stint in rry Larry Barthelenry IV the lab to present the world with to Japan. Some of this stuff actu- senior staff photographer staff critic talent and originality and it gets boring real quick. their latest discovery. The Body ally sounds good. I personally The dim sarcasm and satire Hat Syndrome completes the tril- liked the groups from Sweden The Everlasting Belt Co?. Oh Moxy Fruvous has an interest- and London. All the tracks have ing bit of history that may explain strike me as lame, but apparently ogy of albums for this abstract yes, that would be the new album rap group. With the return of new and interesting rhythms, this by Edsel, which happened to be a why Bargainville sucks so bad. someone likes them. Maybe it's a Canadian thing. Humpty-Hump plus the additional is a definite must have album if car that was suppose to be the These four guys, Mike Ford, one thinks that only the U.S has Murray Foster, Jean Ghomeshi Bargainville isn't really worth new members, Digital Under- greatest thing that hit the earth ground takes a humorous yet slamming rappers.