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By Jay GTubb Replicas. Once you're hooked on" Praying lO the Aliens" you'll buy the new one. Buy Ok, so the IRS really hit you this time, it. and that car the bank lets you use is bleed­ ing you white at the pumps. How are you I had trouble making Illy mind up about going to buy all those new albums at the Robin Lane, Boston's new s,,,,'ct'theart. I store? We ll. you can ' l. That' s why I decided anyone who can sing, "You say I grabbed every new release I could find and don'l love you enough Ooo('ee I Can rated them: Buy it, borrow it, bury or burn. hardly satisfy," and make it sound serious deserves credit. Imagine Karla Bonoff with Prl'lendl'rs - self titled. Maybe I'm ask­ a good shot of rock & roll; melodic and ing for trouble, but I like Chrissie Hyn(ic well-written. and the boys better than Blondie. Hynde's voice is deeply sensuous and more expres­ As for the girls, buy one, borrow the rest. sive than Harry's. Also the group's songs T/z(' Undertones - self titled. Hey! You are more varied. Ranging from the moody, can still find good punk rock. No heavy detached "Private Life" to the snotty messages, no frills, just upbeat tunes like, profanity of " Precious" to the light and " Girls Don't Like It, " and "Teenage bouncy " Brass In Pocket," the band churns Kicks." If you want the Clash without tight and imaginative, like Blondie on politics. Buy it. uppers . But attention is centered on . Hynde. When She sings, "I was a good The Tourist - Realily Effect. I abso­ time / I got pretty good/ ... 1 shot my mouth lutely love the cover on thisone. ThemusiG off and you showed me what that hole was is another story. They sound like the Byrds, for," in " Tattooed Love Boys," you not ok. They're very able musicians, fine. But only listen, you feel. Hynde squeezes the songs are just plain weak. Slick and passion and meaning out of each word in Pete Farndon, Chrissie, Martin Chambers and James melodic, but boring. Burv or burn. every song. Even when ~inging the soft and Honeyman Scott are the Pretenders. gentle "Kid" and Kink's oldie "Stop Your Philip D'Arrow -SubZero. This record Sobbing" Hynde's power of interpretation sneaked up on me. I didn't go crazy over it and Lene LOVICll. 1 ve only caught a few Pat Bt'natar -In tl/(, Ihlll of Ih(' Nip;hl elevates the songs into personal state­ when I first played it. Then I noticed that it cuts off each alhum, but they seem very Despite thl' single"1 «'anlJr('akn, " mosl ments. Note that "Stop Your Sobbing" was kept winding up on my turntable when I promising. Try to preview befole huying. of opera-trained Pat Iknalal's dehul i~ produced by new wave wiz kid Nick Lowe. was supposed to be checking lhe other Hope I've helped to narrow it down pretty tame ~tllff. and n()1 to 1l11'IlWlalJk at Buy it. albums. So I finally figured it OUl. Did you some. Tryout some Hew music and stay that. Aside flOm t hat cui and "So SiIHl'IT," she sounds like sht' is just going through ever meet a girl (or guy) that has no out­ Bruce WooIl"Y and the Caml"ra Club - Public Image LTD. - Sl'cond Edilion. . the pan's. Everything is sung \ TIl, but it standing pans, but taken together does self titled. This one is turning lip in a lot of In 1978 Johnny rotten of the Sex Pistols lacks t he feci i ng of l'mot ion ill good roc k. something to you? D'Arrow covers rock, the stores sporting a cover that looks really became John Lydon and formed P. I. Ltd. to For an example of thi!'!, list('n 10 Iknatar's reggae, and ballads all with a new wave new wave. Well, Wooley is actually slick, put out avante garde, artsy records. Either I cover of "I Necd a Lov('!." Thcn go hack feel. Bug some deejay to play "Night stylized and very English pop, with a slight missed something, or this is the worst trash School" for you. Buy it. and hl'ar the l'X( i(('IIH'nt and urgellcy 01 touch of new wave - as the best nit says, I've heard in years. Pretentious forced art is John Cougar's original. ,"'tIlI, you might Madness Une Slep Beyond. These guys "Clean/ Clean." Another strong cut, "You wantthealhulll forthccov('1 pictuH'()fPat just bad art, no matter how progressive. are really funny. I get visions of our gang Got Class" is descriptive of Wooley's stvle. (dream hoys, drcam). And John, a double album of this? Come grown up and given instruments: Madness The rest of the album is worthwhile hl~t a on, give us a break. Bury or burn. has gone over big in England playing ska. bit anemic. Lo ~ )k for Wooley in the fUrlurt'. SUl' Sacul (lml tli(, N(>:d - self litled. Ska is speeded-up Jamaican reggae given a For now, reflU{'st "Clean Clean" on the Gary Numan - Thl' Pleasurl' Principle. SlH: Saad, ill ('(mtra!'!t, lin's lip to 1111' ~trong bass beat for dancing, distinguished radio. Borrow it. It's hard ro believe, but this guy has found power of her single, "PriSOI1('I." Th(' by a heavy accent on the after beat. The a fresh new sound. His single "Cars" self pUllch of "Cimme Lovl' CimllH' Paill, .... 1 . skinheads in Madness look silly, and their Robin Land and lh(' Charlbuslers - ~tands out immediately on the radio. For I Me Ml'," and ('Sl)('(i,dly "YOlll l.ips- / songs arc silly. "Swan Lake" done ska, and tilled. Suddenly the record companies have those who haven't heard it yet, take David I Ltnds-Kiss-Lm'('," will kl'l'p hOIIll< ing a marine chant of "Chipmunks Are Go" discovered that women (an sing rock. As a Bowie's voice, add electronics, (a la Kraft­ around you head ('\Tn if the tilks don't. might give you a lift. Then again it might resullthey've signed up every girl who can work and Eno), and put it all to a steady Ignore the factthar the hand looks likl' Ihl'v drive you right up a wall. Better listen carry a tune, and some who can't, (i.e. Mary back beat. With Numan's sci-fie lyrics, it flunked Ollt of Towsoll State. The alblll;l before buying. Borrow it. Ann Faithful - but she does swear with sounds' like the soundtrack to 1984: .intri­ such feeling). Here are three examples of hears SOlTll' catchy, straight-ahead rock guing blend of space with a rock beal. I Be sure not to overlook three other the female wave. Secretly I bel ieve they're sung in a ncar pl'rfect roc k & roll grmd hv would buy Numan's previous album first, women - Rachel Sweet, Suzan Fellini, all the same person, but all that aside ... Saad. . Whats Happening-----Ca rnpus

By Debbie Browning Smithsonian Institutiollon May 1 at 8 pit Ballroom, 1717 N. Charles Street. For FRIDAY, MAY 2 in Lecture Hall IV at UMBC. 1 more info. call 945-2266. Delta Sigma Theta LECTURES MUSIC DANCE Commuter Cafeteria, 10 pm - 2 am The History of Black Women in Baltin,ore "Magnificat, Meditations on the Mystery THEATRE is the lecture to be delivered on May 4 at 3 of the Most Holy Virgin" is the concert to "Fiddler On The Roof" starring Herschel pm at City Hall in addition to Black Politi­ SATURDAY, MAY 3 be delivered by The Baltimore Choral Bernardi, will be performed at the Morris cal Leaders In Baltimore Since 1880 in Arts Society on May 4 at 8. pm at the Mechanic Theatre from April 28 - May 17. Black Student Union celebration of Baltimore's 250th Anniver­ Cathedral of Mary Our Queen. For more All evening performances are Mon.-Sat. DISCO sary, 1730-1980. The lectures are free and ticket info call 889-0089 between 9 am and at 8 pm with matinees scheduled for Wed. Commuter Cafeteria, 9 pm - 2 am the public is welcomed. 5 pm. & Sat.' at 2 pm. Tickets may be purchasec in person at the Box Office and through MONDAY, MAY 5 Bringing Skeletons To Life is the lecture to The Left Bank Jazz Society presents lacl Telecharge. For more info .. call (301) 727- All Sweethearts Organization' be presented by Dr. J. Lawrence Angel , DeJohnette - Chico Freeman New Direc­ 4102. BAKE SALE Curator of Physical Anthropology at thE tions on May 4 from 5-9 pm at the Famous Commuter Cafeteria, 11 :30 am - 3 pm

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