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ADOLESCENTS
Brats in Battalions
SOS Records
Don't mess around with these
guys 'cuz Tony Montana is now
lead vocal. New and old songs that
will destroy family relationships. Be
a brat. RR
PUBLIC ENEMY
Yo! Bum Rush The Show
Def Jam
Just when you thought it was
safe to buy a Def Jam album
along comes Public Enemy with a
rap record guaranteed to bring
some rough edges into your dull
life. This in no top-10 "go to church,
go to school" shtick, nor are Public
Enemy towing the "party" line
either. They have just enough real-
ty, raunch and righteousness to get
their point across without getting
too bogged down in "bad mufu"
bragging. They talk about suckers,
crack dealers, and "homeboys in
ENESTY
day of the week. Head head, Roky
Erickson, figures to go down in the i
annals of music as one of the best
misunderstood geniuses to spew
forth spew. He sits down and
plunks out "Don't Slander Me" and
"Will The Circle Remain Un-
broken" (and others) with unbridled
passion and still sounds like he
wants to go down the hall and get
some ice. Too much, and too
little-twenty minutes of music is
just a little, but no matter. Greatness
starts small, gets big and stays in
cheesy hotel rooms. WC
LL. COOL J
Bigger And Deffer
Def Jam
Bigger and deffer, fly'er, cleaner,
bustin' my rhyme...you gotta hand
it to this guy, at least he's got all his
shit in one sock. L.L., yo J, comes
off smelling like a rose with better
production this time around. A gut-
fulla rap n' posing n' stuff about
how Cool J is still the best gangster,
lover, fighter, rapper. "Go Cut
Creator Go" uses Check Berry's
"Johnny B. Goode" to its maximum
potential and will wipe out all you
sucker wannabe rappers...a wah,
a wah a wickie wickie wickie...WC
BIG BLACK
Headache Ep and Heartbeat
Single
Touch and Go
heat" without omitting the politics.
Get out your guns, kids, 'cause
O.K., a guy's wife has a kid and
they're talking like Black Panthers, it turns out deformed. He rushes to
1980's style. The lyrics are too the hospital in a rage, does his best
radical for the radio and too black Dr. J. imitation and slam-dunks the
for any Washington wife, so if you kid's tormented body. Welcome to
want a record that's all concrete the latest Big Black horror show.
and no Stove Top, you're gonna The music on this record is such
have to BUY Yo! Bum Rush The a mind-warping, ugly experience
Show. Oh yeah, the beats are hella' that you'll want to keep playing it
raw and finely mixed with slices of over and over. Big Black pounds
guitar that fade in and out like all and spits chunks of pure power
your favorite Rick Rubin rip-off riffs. noise on this disc, which they
What these boys are saying (not recorded over a year ago. It's not
preaching) has the power to toast anywhere as good as their last ef-
all the whitebread in the nation. JC fort, Atomizer, but twice as ugly and
annoying About the single:
"Heartbeat" is a cover song (Wire) i
done up nicely by the band, but
hardly what you'd call ball-busting.
The other two cuts are workouts in
noise and terror and an instrumen-
tal to boot. Go to your local record
store and yell for it by name. WC
ROKY ERICKSON
The Holiday Inn Tapes
Fan Club
A psycho maniac on acoustic
guitar in a hotel room with a cheap
tape recorder beats the hell outta
the Cult or any punk rock band any
WC
Witam Christman, JC J Cunn, RR-Rick Rossent
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