32 WINNIPEG SUN FRIDAY MAY 21 2004 HOME DELIVERY 632-6506 CDS & LIVE Sound & Vision bucks to track down the negative and restore it instead. The latest & greatest music DVDs —DS the set list has primo fare like Whip ly hectic rise and fall of the four- mentary track, a cooking segment It, Girl U Want, Uncontrollable some behind hits like Little Willy, and even footage of Sam showing Sun Ra & Urge, Mongoloid and Jocko Homo, Wig Wam Bam, Blockbuster, you how to mix a Waborita. along with surprises like Smart Hellraiser, Fox on the Run and, of Speaking of booze, here’s a great His Arkestra Patrol and Mr. DNA. But come on, course, Ballroom Blitz. Even better, drinking game: Take a swig every Iggy & the we know there’s better stuff in the nearly all the music clips are com- time Sammy slags Diamond Dave The Cry of Jazz vaults than this. So why can’t we plete and uninterrupted by dia- behind his back. Trust us, it’ll make Atavistic / MVD Stooges see it? Are we not fans? logue. In the words of Brian this trip a lot more fun. Hold it, Sun Ra fans. Before you 1/2 —DS Connolly: Oh, yeah! —DS shell out for The Cry of Jazz, know Live in Detroit —DS RETROSPECTIVES HIP-HOP this: Yes, this 35-minute DVD con- MVD / Koch tains some impressively ancient For our money, it’s The Stooges, Journey black-and-white footage of the not The Stones, who deserve the space-jazz icon and his band title World’s Greatest Rock ’n’ Roll Greatest Hits 1978 - 1997 cooking in a Chicago club. But Band. But don’t take our word for it; Columbia / Sony they’re hardly the stars of this 1959 get their jaw-dropping reunion DVD film. In fact, The Cry of Jazz isn’t a OK, so maybe the time frame in Live in Detroit and see who’s right. jazz film as much as its a film that title is an overstatement. If you Taped last year on their Motor City about jazz and its role in American ignore the fact that even Journey home turf, this essential set cap- post-war race relations. Filmmaker probably couldn’t recall having a tures the surviving Stooges — Edward Bland has an intriguing, if hit in 1997 — and that the tune in singer Iggy Pop, guitarist Ron over-intellectualized viewpoint — question, When You Love a Woman, Asheton and his drummer brother improvisation equals freedom, musi- was actually released in 1996 — Scott (Rock Action) Asheton — as cal structure symbolizes slavery’s there’s no denying that most of the they rise Phoenix-like from the chains, etc. — but ultimately, you songs on this 75-minute DVD are ashes after three decades apart. wish he had done less talking and instantly familiar to anyone who Rounded out by utility bassist Mike let the Arkestra do more playing. had a radio in the ’80s. Roughly Watt and sax sideman Steve —DS divided between video clips and Mackay, the original dum-dum boys Weezer live footage, Greatest Hits contains ZenTV show the pretenders how it’s done CLASSIC TV Don’t Stop Believin’, Wheel in the on this ferocious, rollicking set, Various Artists Video Capture Device Sky, Any Way You Want It, Lights, blasting through proto-punk clas- Lovin’, Touchin’, Squeezin’, Who’s Ninja Tune / Outside sics like Loose, 1969, No Fun, TV Geffen / Universal Crying Now, Open Arms and sev- The eternal conundrum: What to Eye and I Wanna Be Your Dog with Weezer, for some reason we eral other tracks that you’re gonna do with the TV at your house all the raw power and razor-blade have always been unable to fath- have stuck in your head for the party? Leaving it off never works, nihilism of their misspent youth. om, are one of those bands that rest of the day now. Sorry. but a mute TV is even more dis- Iggy especially is a man possessed inspire cult-like devotion among fans. Those diehards are clearly the —DS tracting. The solution: ZenTV, the — when he isn’t humping the amps new DVD from dance music label or heckling his bandmates to play target market for Video Capture TOUR DOC Device — and they won’t be disap- Ninja Tune. This set packs more louder and faster, he’s inviting the than two hours of Ninja’s best crowd to climb onstage and join the pointed. This exhaustive DVD (or exhausting, depending on your beats, cuts and breaks, including party. You catch Mick pulling any of clips from groove merchants Cold those stunts, you let us know. Until view) compiles three-plus hours of The Weez, from the overly familiar Cut, funktastic band Herbaliser, then, we rest our case. Canuck turntable trickster Kid —DS videos (Buddy Holly, Sweater Song) and requisite tour footage to Koala and plenty more. Plus, unlike TV ads and ancient home movies, most music DVDs, the music is mostly viewable in chronological pretty much tailor-made for getting Frank Sinatra order. All told, it’s pretty much all down with your bad self. Now, all Frank Sinatra Show: the Weezer you’d ever want to see. you have to do is hide the remote. Too bad the feature most fans —DS Welcome Home Elvis would want to hear — a commen- JAZZ Quantum Leap / MVD tary track from Rivers Cuomo — is Frank Sinatra was never shy nowhere to be found. about voicing his disdain for rock 1/2 —DS The 1962 Newport ’n’ rollers like Elvis. But that didn’t stop the Chairman of the Board Sweet Sammy Hagar & Jazz Festival from throwing a party for The King Various Artists when Presley got out of the Army Glitz, Blitz & Hitz the Waboritas in 1960. The Frank Sinatra Show: MVD / Koch The Long Road to Cabo Quantum Leap / MVD Welcome Home Elvis DVD con- “Are you ready, Steve?” “Uh- This 40-year-old film shot at the tains an entire hour-long TV spe- huh.” “Andy?” “Yeah.” “Mick?” Sanctuary / EMI famous East Coast jazz festival cial, including Timex takes-a-lick- Devo “OK.” “All right, fellas — let’s And what a long road it is. Along sounds like a music buff’s dream, ing commercials, a whack of boffo Live GOOOOOOOOOO!” If you aren’t with an interminable documentary thanks to footage of legendary Frank tunes, much kibitzing from humming Sweet’s Ballroom Blitz on sometime-Van Halen singer lions like Count Basie, Oscar fellow Rat Packers Sammy Davis Rhino / Warner and air-drumming at this point, Sammy Hagar’s 2002 tour (with fel- Peterson, Duke Ellington, Joe Jr., Joey Bishop and Peter The good news: It’s a complete, your glam-rock IQ has fallen off a low VH refugee David Lee Roth), Williams and Rahsaan Roland Kirk. Lawford, and — eventually — Elvis pro-shot live concert by everyone’s few points. Top it up with Glitz, this two-DVD set includes every- Too bad it’s more like a video doing two solo numbers (Fame favourite Spudboys. The bad news: Blitz & Hitz, an outstanding DVD thing you ever — and never — buff’s nightmare, thanks to a grainy and Fortune and Stuck on You) It was shot in 1996. At an outdoor retrospective on the classic ’70s wanted to know about the red transfer, poor synchronization and and a generation-gap duet with amphitheatre. In the daytime. Sure, band. Smoothly mixing contempo- rocker. You get an exhaustive tons of jumpy edits. Don’t get us Frank (a medley of Love me they’re pretty tight, considering rary interviews with classic musical discography, a clutch of videos, wrong — we’re glad somebody Tender and Witchcraft). Bottom Mark Mothersbaugh and co. are a footage, the 92-minute documen- ancient footage of his former band finally dug this out of their closet. line: It’s a swinging time. decade past their prime. And yeah, tary traces the electric, so frightful- Montrose, a trivia game, a com- We just wish they had spent a few 1/2 —DS CLASSIFIED 775-7575 FRIDAY MAY 21 2004 WINNIPEG SUN 33 Top Tens DVDS Pop Singles For more CD reviews www.canoe.ca 1. YEAH! Usher ROCK doesn’t necessarily make for good 2. WAY / SOLITAIRE Clay Aiken art — or even particularly good pop 3. EVERYTHING PART 1 Avril Lavigne in this case. Last time we heard Alanis Morissette Under My Skin from George, he was saying some- 4. TOXIC Britney Spears thing about giving away his music. 5. MY BAND D12 Guess he reconsidered. Pity — if 6. MY IMMORTAL Evanescence Arista / BMG Patience were free, we could hon- Kids. They grow up esty say you were getting more than 7. COME CLEAN Hilary Duff so fast — even rock- your money’s worth. 8. NAUGHTY GIRL Beyonce 9. HEY MAMA Black Eyed Peas star kids. —DS Last time we heard 10. BA BA TI KI DI DO Sigur Ros from Avril Lavigne, she SOUNDTRACK was a teen tomboy, jump- Source: Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems ing around in ties and Shrek 2 tanks while singing Local Best-Sellers The Secret crunchy bubblegum rock Various Artists 1. THE GIRL IN THE OTHER ROOM about sk8er bois, compli- Diana Krall Machines cated posers and junior DreamWorks / Universal 2. D12 WORLD D12 high crushes. But now, We’d give a thumbs-up to any Now Here is Nowhere 3. FEELS LIKE HOME Norah Jones that’s all, like, so yesterday. soundtrack that included Tom Waits 4. ELEPHUNK Black Eyed Peas Reprise / Warner Avril was barely old (the mutant tango Little Drop of All machines are built from parts. enough to drive when she Poison), Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds 5. GREATEST HITS Guns N’ Roses Even The Secret Machines. And one wrote her first album, Let (the misanthropic ballad People 6. CONFESSIONS Usher spin of this Dallas trio’s debut disc Go, which sold a whopping Ain’t No Good), Eels (the tinkly anti- 7. CLOSER Josh Groban Now Here is Nowhere is all you need 14 million copies. Today lullaby I Need Some Sleep), Pete 8. THE REASON Hoobastank to reverse-engineer their sound she’s almost 20. And while she may not be a woman yet, she’s no little Yorn (the strummy pop-rocker Ever 9. FALLEN Evanescence down to its original technology. Start girl anymore. She’s been around the block. She’s had her heart broken. Fallen in Love) and Dashboard 10. GROOVE STATION 10 with the key components: The She’s figured out a few things. And like anyone her age, it’s all made Confessional (a remix of As Lovers Various Artists swaggering, Led-foot backbeats of her a little smarter, a little sadder, a little more mature and independent. Go). But when said soundtrack is Bonzo Bonham, the dour post-punk That subtle but significant growth is clearly visible on her sophomore for a family cartoon like Shrek 2, it Source: Nielsen SoundScan Canada grooves of New Order and the album Under My Skin, in stores Tuesday. Granted, on the surface, gets extra points for both coolness dreamy guitar psychedelia of Echo there isn’t a radical difference between her first CD and these dozen and subversion. Even if you do have Country Singles and the Bunnymen. Then add the cuts, most of which were co-penned with Winnipeg singer-songwriter to sit through a song by Counting upgrades: Yearning, melodic vocals Chantal Kreviazuk or her hubby, Our Lady Peace frontman Raine Crows and a karaoke version of 1. MAYBERRY Rascal Flatts heavily influenced by Britpop (with Maida. Avril still specializes in radio-ready pop-rockers and girl-power Livin’ la Vida Loca by Antonio 2. REDNECK WOMAN dashes of indie-rock and emo) and ballads. She still juices her pop hooks and melodies with metallic gui- Banderas and Eddie Murphy. Gretchen Wilson enough swooping, swirling, squelch- tars and arena-rock rhythms. And she still writes about boys she wants —DS 3. YOU’LL THINK OF ME Keith Urban ing Krautrock synths for a Can trib- who don’t want her any more, or vice versa. 4. LETTERS FROM HOME IN THE CLUBS John Michael Montgomery ute. Plug it in, throw the switch and But as reflected in Avril’s vaguely gothy new look, these tunes are a you have a band that generates epic 5. WHEN THE SUN GOES DOWN shade darker and starker. Chantal’s influence is easy to hear in the rich Kenny Chesney & Uncle Kracker nine-minute space flights like First keyboards, moody melodies and contemplative grooves that underpin Wave Intact and choppy, hook-filled 6. PAINT ME A BIRMINGHAM cuts like Together, Forgotten and the poignant Slipped Away, about Tracy Lawrence nuggets like Nowhere Again. In the death of Avril’s grandfather. Lyrically, Lavigne’s viewpoint is more 7. DESPERATELY George Strait other words, this machine is more cynical, if tempered by the contradictions of teenage personality. than the sum of its parts. And that’s 8. IF YOU EVER STOP LOVING ME Sometimes — like on the romantic rock of Fall to Pieces — she’s the Montgomery Gentry far too remarkable to remain a girl who just wants to “cry in front of you.” And sometimes — like on 9. LET’S BE US AGAIN Lonestar secret for long. the boys-suck pop-punk of He Wasn’t — she’s the ticked-off chick 10. WHISKEY GIRL Toby Keith —DS who spends the weekend sitting “on the bed alone / staring at the phone.” But more often — like on the anthemic Don’t Tell Me — she’s the young woman who knows she’s “better off alone anyway” than giv- Source: Billboard Online ing it up to a jerk who just wants to get in her pants. Dance Tracks Parents ought to love that. And why not? In today’s submissive Powderfinger prosti-tot pop world, a teen role model who keeps her clothes on — or 1. RED BLOODED WOMAN even bothers to wear any in the first place — is a refreshing change. Vulture Street Kylie Minogue So sure, Avril may be growing up. And she still has a long way to go. 2. AS THE RUSH COMES Motorcycle But it Under My Skin is any indication, she’ll probably be OK. Universal On the plus side: Down Under 3. NAUGHTY GIRL Beyonce out of — Darryl Sterdan rockers Powderfinger are one of the 4. DEJA VU (IT’S HARD TO BELIEVE) Roc Project feat. Tina Novak few Aussie bands this year who 5. STRAIGHT AHEAD Tube & Berger aren’t blatantly ripping off The feat. Chrissie Hynde arrangements and production — Strokes or MC5. On the minus side: POP 6. DIP IT LOW Christina Milian make it clear these lads aren’t play- If we didn’t know better, we’d say Gomez 7. LOVE ME RIGHT (OH SHEILA) ing by anyone’s rules but their own. they were trying to sound like The Split the Difference So yeah, maybe they don’t know Angel City feat. Lara McAllen Tragically Hip. The singer has the 8. BURNED WITH DESIRE Virgin / EMI where they’re headed. But wherever same throaty delivery and earthy it is, we want to tag along. Armin Van Buuren feat. Justine Suissa “We don’t know where we’re sincerity. The band pen the same —DS 9. BEAUTIFUL THINGS Andain going,” claim Gomez — and it’s sort of crunching rock anthems and 10. TAKE ME TO THE CLOUDS ABOVE easy to see where they’re coming play them with the same fat-free, LMC vs. u2 from. For the past few years and Out of Your Mouth guitar-powered simplicity. They albums, these U.K. eccentrics have aren’t totally Hip-centric — on their Source: Billboard Online been on an experimental tear, trying Draghdad solidly built fifth disc Vulture Street to escape the neo-blues pigeonhole you can also hear echoes of every- Underground of their rootsy early fare like Get Vik / BMG one from The Stones and Black Detuned, vulcanized guitar Miles. With their tellingly titled Crowes to Big Star and (natch, 1. WE STAY HIGH AND LONESOME fourth full-length Split the sludge. Thumping, pumping hip-hop given their name) Neil Young and D. Rangers beats and depth-charge basslines. George Michael Difference, Gomez try to deliver the Crazy Horse. Still, the 11 ragged, 2. ’TIL THE LIVIN’ END Zeke Aggressively creepy vocals that bor- best of both worlds. On one hand, Patience rangy, rootsy rockers here sound 3. SATANIC PANIC IN THE ATTIC they’re still a bunch of young white row from rap-rock and goth-metal. less suited to the Outback than a Of Montreal Enough profanity to titillate the kid- geezers who sing like old black Epic / Sony Prairie bar on a weeknight. It seems 4. FORGET YOURSELF The Church dies without angering their parents. Patience is exactly what it takes geezers — and their appreciation only fitting, then, that Powderfinger 5. ON OFF ON Mission of Burma And a predictable headbanging to be a George Michael fan these for American roots music is evident play Silverado’s Tuesday. 6. COOL TO BE YOU Descendents in the lazy folk-blues of There it Was cover of Madonna’s Music. Slam it days. First the guy takes eight years —DS all together and you have Calgary’s to put out an album of new studio 7. REJOICING IN THE HANDS and their clattery cover of Junior Devendra Banhart Kimbrough’s Meet Me in the City. Out of Your Mouth, a bunch of material. Then, it turns out to be a UPCOMING RELEASES derivative dullards whose debut disc sombre, self-absorbed set of synth- 8. 40 DAYS The Wailin’ Jennys On the other hand, the strummy 9. MAINTENANCE Greg MacPherson ’60s pop of These 3 Sins, the fuzz- Draghdad begs the question: How soaked soul pop and limp-noodle many of these soundalike bands do balladry. Oh sure, it’s impeccably Sarah McLachlan 10. OUR ENDLESS NUMBERED DAYS busting electro-blues swagger of Iron & Wine Where Ya Going? and the chunky we have to listen to before we can performed and meticulously record- Live Acoustic EP stop calling it nü-metal? ed, like pretty much everything Nirvana grunge of Chicken — not to Source: UMFM 101.5 mention their freewheeling, eclectic — DS George does. But good sound Nettwerk / EMI