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Live One Plus One
Giant, Lp
how could there be two Scottish
bands with brothers named Jim
and William Reid, who always wear
black and call themselves the
Jesus and Mary Chain? The way
I finally got it figured is that the first
Jesus and Mary Chain a) got
mature, and b) had feverish visions
of pop success in their lugs (girls!
motorcycles! illegal substances!
long-term cd's). So The Jesus and
Mary Chain who do well- crafted,
pretty, accessible and orderly pop
This 7 Seconds Lp documents a songs are not the chaotic, fuzzy,
Sacramento gig in early 1987. adrenalin-pumping grunge rockers
The band's melodic, heavily they used to be. And now here they
U2-influenced new material is are with their hit pop song "April
featured, as are a few older Skies" on all the best heavily-
numbers presented with the band's Success! If you are as addicted to
current inclinations, i.e. their nor
VERBAL ASSAULT
Trial
Glant
formatted commercial stations.
mally fast paced cover of Nena's catchy yet unusual pop with
brooding lyrics and great
"99 Red Balloons" is spiced up
with lines from REM and the monotonous voices as I am, you
Beatles "Yellow Submarine." "The will dig Darklands. Be warned, it's
Save Ourselves Song," the album's not the same band. Not really. JH
only new cut, points to the Skeeno's GANG GREEN
move away from thrash without You Got It
losing a single bit of the energy and Roadracer
commitment that have set 7 Hub beer gods Gang Green
Seconds apart from the beginning, finally commit an album's worth of
Steve Youth's return to the outfit is material to vinyl, and while the
marked by much stronger musi punch of now classic singles, "Sold
cianship than on previous efforts, Out" and "Alcohol," seems sadly
which makes this a nice hold-over diminished, lead howler Chris
until the next studio Lp. MG Doherty leads his crew of
skateboardin', Bud swiggin' buds
through a serviceable dozen high-
speed volleys. A fascination with
parodying traditional metal tends
Verbal Assault has developed toward juvenalia ("Party with the
into a unique scream of pure Devil," "Sick Sex Six"), but there
adolescent angst. Youth collides are enough rage anthems to war-
head-on with the concrete reality of rant attention. Guitarist Fritz
adulthood and the ultimate loss of Ericson, Boston's most under-rated
innocence. Though still taking cues axeman, holds to the attack better
from Embrace, Rites of Spring and than any predecessor did, while
newer 7 Seconds, the Rhode Island bassist Joe Gittleman and drum-
powerhouse proves versatile mer Brian Betzger keep the
enough to incorporate their own, rhythms tight and furious. Doherty
strong metal sound. From the is still the focal point, as the group
opening cut Pete Cremiac's furious keeps his raspy vocalizations and
texturizations on guitar propel the unwielding rhythms way up front.
band, swirling subtley on "Under Skatin' with satan! MG
stand" and "Scared," then shifting
toward raucous power-rifting on TESCO VEE EXPERIENCE
"Running" and "Never Stop" Twisted Road/
Chris Jones' vocals are a tad more The American In Me
varied than on VA's previous outing. Forced Exposure
"Learn" (on Positive Force), but Righteous jizz-meisters rejoice,
their untrained delivery still the Vee-Max Meatboy Tesco.
exemplifies the confusion and himself unleashes more than his
desperation of young adulthood. share of Dutch syrup all over this
An Lp that should establish this giveaway 7" included (and still
bunch as an East Coast force. MG available) with new subscriptions
to the legendary jazz cum rock mag
JESUS AND MARY CHAIN Forced Exposure. Non-stop cock-
Darklands
rock smashes head on with
Warners/Blanco Y Negro
seminal punk rock as Vee and Co.
cover the Flesheater's classic
"Twisted Road" and the Avengers'
"The American in Me" with gusto
and meat to spare. Vee knows how
I'm confused. Surely the Jesus
and Mary Chain who recorded
Darklands isn't the same Jesus and
Mary Chain who, merely a couple
of years ago, put out a great record to wallow in punk's early excesses
that could clean out ears and call and this here frisbee makes no
dogs clear into the next county? Yet bones 'bout that. MG
MG Ve Gite H-Joni Holo
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