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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 13, 1981)
Kinko’s Copies 4* Self T Service • Reductions • Two-sided copies • Binding 344-7894 764 E. 13th Happy Hour and FREE Vi order of the best fries in Town Thurs-Fri 2:30-4:30 font per customer) Fries with purchase of $1.75 Hot Dog or $2.00 Hamburger Come on Y’all Say you heard it in the Emerald Jeb's 1350 Alder RRR WWWEEEOOO ‘Heavy’ album booms with nostalgic sonic sound By MIKE LEE Olttw Emaratd Heavy-metal rock will be the elevator music of the 21st century. Aging housewives shopping in their local conglomerama will feel soothed as Muzak pipes in those familiar sonic boom drums and screaming guitars. Ah, for the simpler times, they'll say as they pur chase the week's allotment of non-radioactive soymilk Even in 1981, most of the music on the Heavy Metal soundtrack album seems passe But on closer listening — aided by proper consump tion of herbs and distilled grains — the music is not that at all It's nostalgic Although all of the double album's 16 tracks are new — except Devo s reworking of "Working in the Coal Mine" — most of them capture the Happy Days of Heavy Metal Free live music with Steve Myers Appearing at Duffy’s this weekend The Steve Myers Band 1 1 1 1 1 1 I I I I I 1 TT PHOTO SPECIAL! TT lift TTI 1 II II 5*7 Color Enlargement \ 1**1 Certificate returned with every roll of color print film sent in for developing & printing LIMITED TIME OFFER If 13th & Kincaid Mon-Fri 815-5:30 BOOKSTORE Sat io-.oo-2:Oo Textbooks 686-3520 • General Books 686-3510 • Supplies 686-4331 Sammy Hagar's gut-shaking title track contains all of the wonderful elements of the genre. As he screams "It's your one-way ticket to mid night — call it Heavy Metal." you're already forgetting the last shower you took heavy metal staple The music is to be felt, not heard Unfortunately, the album's title is misleading Heavy Me tal. the film and the fantasy magazine, refers to ore, not music While the soundtrack plays on the pun — and that's ‘It’s like listening to a child play with all of the 1970s music stops on a Genie organ.' And if the good ol’ drums and rasping guitars aren't en ough, there's the classic jet engine riff — RRRRWWW WWWEEEEEEOOOOOOO - — that should be outlawed during the air controllers' strike Likewise, ‘ Queen Bee by the resurrected Grand Funk, features drummer Don Brewer having the time of his life on a 12/8 rolling beat Sure, the words may be a bit stupid -- "They can't see what you mean to me. my Queen Bee' — but lyrics never have been a what it is — the film's producers refuse to be trapped by it Thus, songs appear on the album that thematically have no place being there “True Companion,” by Donald Fagen of Steely Dan, sounds like a post-Herb Alpert. pre Dionne Warwick latin shuffle The song says Yes, there will be personality radio in 2100 AD Journey's "Open Arms” uses heavy metal drum and guitars, but it’s a ballad — a ballad — with an acoustical piano, and it reeks ot Barry Manilow However, "I Must Be Dreaming" by Cheap Trick isn't so bad Beginning with a sound approximating ele phants snorting coke, it segues to a punching-bag drum and jet-engine guitar, segues again to a new-wave march, then works its way back to the elephants It s like listening to a child play with all of the t970s music stops on a Genie organ The lyrics are much too nasty for Heavy Metal "You must be dreaming to think I love you " That's what makes the other music nostalgic — time was when listeners were on the musician's side Now we want to hit him Oh, well In spite of its faults, "Heavy Metal" is a fun, slickly produced album, an auditory "Raiders of the Lost Ark " All of the gimmicks are there I just hope the movie is in Sensurround Fluids beat heat wave Should Eugene s 100-degree temperatures return, public health engineer Harold Young quist has a simple solution "Leave the valley and go to the coast " But for residents who are un able to indulge in the luxury of a seaside retreat Youngquist recommends drinking plenty of fluids, avoiding the sun and refraining from mixing alcohol and exercise Only people who work in the sun should increase their salt intake he says "All salt does is make you retain fluid, and if you re already drinking plenty of fluids, you'll be OK " The heat hasn't caused many health problems because "heat ORT David Lunney Producing Director Presents El Grande de Coca Cola AUGUST 14, 15, 21,22, 28. 29, AT MIDNIGHT. 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