J. MARTINEZ
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ELECTRIC PEACE
Rest In Peace
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BIG K/Enigma Records:
It's only every once in a while that
come across an album that I can't
help but play every morning when I
wake up. This 12 inch contains only
six songs but these six are some of
the best I've heard. Its hard to ex-
plain the haunting sound of this
three-piece and the eerie flavor of
their songs. For some this combo
definitely aquires a taste, meaning
is not slammo-bammo material.
The songs: Big Man" "Let the
Bombs Fly Bought A Gun Today
"Cose Of Dynamite Moving Slowly
and the old time standard that
learned to sing back in the third
grade, Tom Dooley
Tasty numbers on this disc are,
Bought A Gun Today" and "Case Of
Dynamite In I Bought it starts
off with the words, I bought a gun
today, yes I did, and I ain't gonna take
no shit and goes on to say, "My
gun and my drugs are gonna see me
through...In Case Of Dynamite
it's almost refreshing to hear the vo
calist, in his deep tener voice, sing
"I got a case of dynamite and I got a
stick of it just for you... hope I see
you real soon. A good song to listen
to if you are really pissed off at some
one and wanna blow 'em away with
a stick of TNT Highly recommended
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Hostage
Freeway Records/Rhino Records
I know that there are more than a
few of you out there who know who
Bukowski is. If not, you should. No.
he's not some kind of singer or band,
but one thing is for sure, Bukowski
is HARDCORE Charles is a poet
novelist in one of the most real ways.
He speaks from the gutter, from the
gut, from the heart. Hostage captures
him at his best on this live recording
of a reading he gave at The Sweet-
water in Redondo Beach, California.
Here you can experience him taunt-
ing his audience through a drunken
stumble, and the audience, who
theraselves are appropriately intoxi-
cated, taunt pack. His poems deal
with people in history (ie. Toulouse
Lau Trec), people he's met, lived with,
ought with fornicated with, been
cheated by and his own anti-hero
character, Hank Chinaski, who he
meanders through this stinking world,
forever getting the short end of the
stick. In between the poems he says
lots of bad words, all perfectly placed.
well used and not wasted. Here's over
one hour of humor, craseness, reality
and occasional heart ronding tales
that prove that be's not a complete
sack of piss and destroyed liver. To
give you any specific details on par
licular pieces, I feel would ruin its
freshness when you listen to it Go
into this disc with the expectations
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Rated above and you still get way
more than you expected. Like says
on the back of the jacket. "Pick up a
sa pack on your way home and really
enjoy it."
GLORIOUS DIN
Leading Stolen Horses
Insight Records
Now if you're in a band and you
have your influences it's usually not
kosher. to come across just like the
influencing band. A person would be
counted as a fool to say Glorious
Din didn't sound like Joy Division
Unless, of course, you've never
heard of Joy Division. This compan
son has been made in other reviews
of this band, and it probably pisses
Glorious Din off. Then again they
might see it as a compliment, achiev
ing a certain alm. Although their
sound is blatantly npped-off, so is the
sound of hundreds of other bands.
How many bands are now following
the New York Dolls' cue or the raun
chiness of Iggy Pop? Plenty So you
can't really hold it against Glorious
Din for doing what they do. Their
drab, monotone style is somewhat
predictable, I can't find anything out-
standing on this Lp. nothing that
stuck in my mind, but I still give it a
couple listens every once in a while
and pretendits the new Joy Division
album. Glorious Din lack the 'Heart
and Soul' of J.D. It's the vocals man,
the vocals just aren't there beckoning
with any kind of emotion.
DAVE ALLAN & THE ARROWS
Arrow Dynamic
Arrow Dynamic/Macola Records
Ye of surf-styled music...almost
like the lend that was played through-
out the 60's. No, not the Beach Boys
stuff. That wasn't surt music. That
was crap. I'm talking fully bent guitar
with heavy reverb. Ventures, Chan-
tays type o thing. Here, Mr. Dave
Allan and his Arrows cruise through
ten songs of deloctible taste. The only
drawback here is the over-produced
um-pow um-pow snare drum effect
and too many keyboards and synthe
sizers
Even through these faults, there
are standouts on this Ep. One of my
faves is the album's opening track.
an old time surf hd "Apache; here
called 'Apache Ill. It's good but again
could be bettor without the synth
and round-house drum rolls My other
fave is "Surf Trek" or (The king of the
fuzz guitar meets the king of the fuzz
guitar which includes Dick Dale
(surf guitar empressario) joining in for
a mock battle. It's still an OK album,
good for parties and driving on the
freeway
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ESTEVEZ DOING COPPOLASBOING HINTON
I had it all laid out, until about an
hour ago, to fill this column with re-
views of obscure horror films, skipping
on the theatres because nothing
looked very appetizing. (I was dragged
to see Sweet Dreams... skater's be-
ware! Avoid at all costs! BIOLOGI-
CALLY HAZARDOUS. I may never
recover from this one.) A couple of
days hence I drove out and rented
a boxfull of the strangest creep titles
I could find. Then I went to Safeway,
bought a pound of Gummi Worms,
some Pillsbury Bake 'n Scrape
danishes and a couple bottles of
Gatorade. I was fully prepared
to tackle the weekend movie
marathon.
After four eternally long and tortur-
ously frigid films I was an Intensive
Care candidate. (The pound of
candy didn't help out much, either)
It was time for a break so I flipped
through the newspaper again to see
if there was anything at the movie
house that might be a bit more in-
teresting. Then I saw an ad for the
new Emilio Estevez film, That Was
Then, This Is Now. I grabbed my
skate, flew out the door and entered
the theatre just as the lights were
dimming.
As the first scene opened, upbeat
rock music started to blare and my
mind clicked. Uh-oh, it looks like it's
going to be a little too melodramatic,
trying so hard to be good that it'll
end up being a joke. But, not for the
first time, my initial reaction was
shamefully wrong.
This is another adaptation of an
S.E. Hinton novel (screenplay by
Emilio Estevez). A couple of years
ago Francis Ford Coppola turned
two of Ms. Susie Hinton's books into
spectacularly stylistic major motion
pictures; The Outsiders and Rum-
ble Fish. (Coppola is also well
known for his keen contemporary
classics The Godfather, Apocalypse
Now, The Cotton Club, plus a wagon-
full of other excellent titles. If you
haven't discovered any of his films,
you've been missing out. Coppola is
one of the finest directors alive today.
In my eyes, nobody can shape and
weave a picture as skillfully and pro-
fessionally as he does.)
That Was Then, This Is Now is
the story of two boys, Mark (Estevez)
and Bryon (Craig Sheffer) who con-
sider each other adoptive brothers.
Mark is the younger could-be-
crazed-maniac-killer hungry for at-
tention, while Bryon, the older, is a
veteran roughneck learning there is
more to life than feeling flesh against
fist, and vice versa. They've grown
up together and ultimately they drift
apart, forced to confront each other
and examine familial ties (hence the
title). There is no questioning this
film's validity. The characters are
real, the situations are real, and
...hell, I can't think of one thing I
found unbelievable. This movie grips
you, shakes you, screams in your
face and has a jolly 'ole time playing
with your emotions. After it was over,
I crept back out into the light of day
and began to think. Yes, I did learn
something here, and I cannot think
of a better compliment to give a film.
It was an experience rather than
typical, white-washed Hollywood
entertainment.
Hinton's themes of tensions and
troubles of roughened youths con-
vey an understanding only someone
deeply involved could demonstrate
Her characters are people we know.
maybe even ourselves. In The Out-
siders (which she wrote when she
was 16) we are presented with a
group of teenagers from the wrong
side of town who survive only be-
cause of their kinship. Of Hinton's
three stories, I feel this one is the
best example of how tough kids try
to find their place and deal with a
world they never created. Rumble
Fish, on the other hand, is the
cinematic masterpiece of the three.
Coppola went all out with it, filming
in black and white except for
splashes of color when the Rumble
Fish are on screen and using re-
volutionary camera angles and
techniques. The story revolves
around Rusty James, a kid who wor-
ships his brother, The Motorcycle
Boy, as a god. Big brother is not al-
ways around, though, and when he
is he's a lunatic. Coppola did some
really weird cinematic stuff in this
one, such as painting shadows on
walls that go in two directions and
other intriguing, off-the- wall effects
which help highlight this film's overall
eerie atmosphere. Make this your
next video rental choice, you won't
be sorry.
The themes these pictures deal
with are realistic and indicative of
many of the trials and trails of adoles-
cent life. Watch them with an open
mind and maybe you'll even learn
something about yourself.
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