~·-..._ . r. .-l---·i~~~~~*cuu-.. fc ~tl-, -- l w T CRnAv-h KAADI-> I17. cNON . - -,- -: .", - - " 7777 - _M' - ".PArF 1 n TPPP6 I v 1/1A MC1 AMU' MILVAT, IVIA~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~tH 77:77;W: '~ """~"~ . I R'T-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~; Newreleasesr Xie , -- Robyn Hitchcock-ain to please homages to the Beatles it's a wonder Yes, there is 'the obligatory single ('Ma- that donna of the Waspsn), and yes,- guitarist they weren't credited- to· Lennon, McCartney, Harrison, and Starr. Peter Buck guests on three tracks to draw O The most apparent Beatles imitations in any wayward REM fans, but Hitchcock here are probably "The Loving," which still churns out songs like "Veins of the begins with cheering (see. "Sgt.' Pepper's Queen." This song shows Hitchcock imag- Lonely Heart's Club Band") and the overt- ining himself shrunk down to the size of a ly' political "Here Comes President Kill match head and injected into ·the veins of Again" (alias "Because"), which damns, Queen Elizabeth to have a look around: both Americans and British for their inter- But nobody pretends national meddlings in the name of saving That they really know the Queen the world from communism. Not that the- So I'd love to say I'd been songs aren't catchy or worth listening to; Somewhere deep inside the veins "Mayor of Simpleton," the current single, Of Her Majesty the Queen. is charmingly naive. in sentiment, and "Chalkhills and Children" casts a slow, "Veins of the Queen" and "One Long peaceful musical spell. Pair of Eyes" are both songs Hitchcock There is one limiting factor to Oranges performed on his acoustic tour this sum- & Lemons - the best songs are all on the mer, and fortunately, neither suffers from first two sides. XTC had already created the fleshing-out they get from his band, the world's most perfect double album in the Egyptians. Hearing "One Long Pair of 1982's English Settlement, and Oranges & Eyes" performed with bass, drums, piano, Lemons seems stuffed with filler by com- and additional harmonies is certainly a parison. Peel away a few extraneous change from the sparse, elegiac version I songs, and this could become a highly en- heard in concert, but the song doesn't suf- joyable Beatles tribute album. fer at all for it. It's still wrenchingly beau- tiful -and one of Hitchcock's best love songs. Likewise, this is one of 14itchcock's QUEEN ELVIS best albums, eclipsing Element of Light Robyn Hitchcock 'n' the Egyptians and even Fegmania. A & M Records ~L** ** * HERE IS NO WAY TO ADEQUATELY describe the warped sensibilities Three more albums that may require some that pervade the average I obyn diligent rooting around to find but are J n Hitchcock album. No one else definitely worth it: kseems to be able to write about death, Beleza Tropical (Fly/Sire Records) - vari- flesh, and amphibians in Hitchcock's con- ous, ORANGES & LEMONIaS compiled by David Byrne. Still trying Skylarking, was a musical trip through sistently baffling style. Somehow he mates to satisfy his XTC itch for newer and more eso- Pepperland courtesy of producer Todd the cheeriest, bounciest music to the most teric rhythms, Geffien Records the head Talking Head flies Rundgren. XTC did show their psychedel- outrageous topics, as in "Furry Green to Brazil and returns with sambas and folk ic side in two releases by their alter egos, Atom Bowl, a song from his I Often music galore. The collection is heavy on By DEBBY LEVINSON the Dukes of Stratosphear, but they were Dream of Trains LP which completely de- Caetano Veloso and Milton Nascimento never accused of consciously copying the fies explanation. To make matters worse,''I (they perform six of the fourteen tracks), T or OW MANY GROUPS START OUT Beatles until recently. Their latest release is the cover shot depicts Hitchcock meditat- but when the music is this glorious, it with punk fervor and end up the double album Oranges & Lemons, and ing on a large-rooted vegetable, and the doesn't matter. It begins with the utterly regressing to Beatlesque pop? it should clear up any remaining doubt inner sleeve contains one of his odder infectious' "Ponta de Lanca Africano Not many, I'll bet, except for about where their sympathies lie; the cover XTC, whose guitar thrashings spiced up short stories, this one dealing with the (Umbabarauma)" fro'm'vJorge ;Ben and is a swirling mass of cartoonish colors and early recordings like White Music and dead rising from the grave to make phone skips from -samba to bossa nova to folk: absurdly stretched images a la Peter, Max, calls. and back again. Drams and Wires and whose last album, and some of the songs are so obviously All, of course, in' Portu- _-1.- - - - - --- -- -- T he music itself is as strange as always. -(Please turn to page 1) ..._,. -_.- ,__ .,------ = .. h . _~ ezw. ... ...". - -9 Interviewing. n Campus Wall Street Financial SoftwVare Firnz: Digital Transactions Inc. (D.TI) develops sophisticated financial trading systems for use by leading banks-and corporations worldwide. The company is based in New York City and is relocating in May to the Wall Street area. 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