Verdicts Given
By New Reviewer
By DAVE CLARK
for the Emerald
I’m Dave Clark and I’m go
ing to review records here per
iodically.
I’m 26 and a graduate student
in Architecture. I studied phil
osophy at the University of Wis
consin.
I have a wide background in
music. My brother introduced
me to it through Country and
Western (central Wisconsin is
steeped in it), and ended my
tutorship with “serious” music.
We split at Beethoven’s quartets
and I went into jazz. I’ve also
been into RR peripherally for
15 years. I’m into it so deep
now that I can’t see the pheri
phery.
Now, by the grave of my
brother, I will make some prom
ises. I will “ego trip” in my re
view as little as possible. My
reviews will be personal impres
sions—I'm not going to “tell it
for everybody,” and you can’t ex
pect me to. I may say some stu
pid things—that’s what happens
when you take risws. Here goes
BEE GEES: HORIZONTAL
(ATCO S D33-233)—Whenever
Country Joe and the Fish put
out a terrible album, it’s very
disappointing, but it doesn’t
make you cry. They never prom
ised you a rose garden; in fact,
they don’t make promises at
all. because that’s where they’re
at, and you know it.
Bee Gees
But the Bee Gees are very
different. There’s something
very pure and very beautiful
about them—and their songs.
They’re the sort of songwriters
who promote great expectations
in their listeners. ^ very dan
gerous business, that. You would
think that betrayal could be
gotten used to, but it never
happens . . .
One “plus” feature of “Hor
izontal” is Massachusetts, which
is a very beautiful song. When
I hear “. . . and Massachusetts
is one place f liave seen . . .”
I think of so many things at
once, from “You Can’t Go Home
Again” to Johnny Cash sitting
in Folsom prison listening to
the freight trains.
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At their best, as here, the
Bee Gees perform Leider: at
their worst, in a number of
other selections, they are mere
ly pretty.
If you don’t have “Bees Gees
1st," go out and buy two cop
ies: one for yourself and one
for someone you love. But hold
off on "Horizontal." Massachu
setts will soon be on an album
entitled “Best of the Bee Gees,”
and it will be a much better buy.
LEONARD COHEN: SONGS
OF THE COHEN (Columbia CS
9533)—The Bee Gee's songs are
sad. and so are Leonard Cohen's.
But there is a difference: Leon
ard Cohen is very "heavy.” One
hope I have for the Bee Gees is
that they get as “heavy” as
Leonard Cohen.
Lot to Learn
Time Magazine has said (with
out caring) that Cohen has a
lot to learn about music. That
may be true. He has. however,
nothing to learn about lyrics;
he knows himself too well. As
he stands, he is a musical poet.
As he stands, he really should
not be performing his own
works.
The job should not, however,
fall to Noel Harrison or some
one similar. Cohen’s voice is con
sistently flat, like that of Chet
Baker’s. It adds depth to the
sadness of his arrangements.
And sadness is, after all, more
than tragedy. Sadness has in
finite variety, like people, while
tragedy is too narrow in scope
to do anything but supply psy
chologists with convenient la
bels. "The Wanderer” by Alain
Fournier, and “The Fate of
Man” by Sholokov strike deep
er responses than any Greek
play, because they strike wid
er. Leonard Cohen strikes very
wide indeed.
Please buy this album and
worry about the arranging later.
Leonard Cohen is a . . hero
in the seaweed. . .” Touch his
perfect mind with your body.
Sernas Speaks
To Press Group
Phil Sernas, former editor of
the Emeald and a University
graduate, explained “the gen
eration gap" at the American
Society of Newspaper Editors
convention Thursday.
Sernas was one of four on
a panel discussion of what was
wrong with today’s newspapers.
He said, “the press is too
busy being responsible” to ap
preciate the progressive move
ment and was “a mouthpiece
for the military-industrial com
plex.”
Semas is now an editor for
Collegiate Press Service, in
Washington D. C.
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