Sonic Youth Rules? • Morrissey Broods • INXS Kicks
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Sonic Youth
Dirty
★ ★
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lomialion ot then unlistrirablc punk Itotn
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M<muc, Kirn Gordon .ind the gang i .m i
mm i nn air on songs dial ininm rithrr
their horrid, avani-gardr. 1‘Wfls nuw or
dir ra/or-edgcd |K>p ot Yig's other jk-i pm
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one tear k Not cvrn a solo In Fugayj’s Ian
Mat Rave r an make up lot thr group's toi
mini vocals or dir altmnr s IX; usrrdosr
I lie onr dillrrrncr tirlwmi Souk Youth
and groups nidi sitnilai prohlrim — thr IV
fill s and Yrs — is that Sonic'* amps go all thr
was up to 20.
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INXS
Welcome to Wherever You Are
★ ★★★
Ihr ■ s liisi audio irlrav suite the
irihnixlrivriir.il candv of \ graced lop
Iti airwaves iwu mmh ago, Wfltome to
Whnr'rft I fill \lf sees IN \ S I r disc OV r I lllg
I hr powers hold tools tli.it dominated the
r.uh seats ol thegn»up 's lli-seai lustoiv
Ihr fitst hall ol the alhtini. displacing a
haul edge with stings like the driving
"Heaven Sriu," suggests the Anvars havr
abandoned ihr sweeping ptmet ballads and
pulsating dancr trai ks t haiactcrisiii ol
then last i ouplr outings
Hut thr vi ond hall siavs true to ihr ghost
ol ISA's pu-si nl. onh this tunr with a wrl
tonir ambitious altitude I’atisrs I tel wren
songs air rlutunatrd. instrumrntation and
MH.tls oftrn distorted and a variety ol stvlrs
— from Indian to t lassual - art- exploit'd
I hr band vrminglv has narked the lairs!
direction of another tnrgagtoup returning
to the past with an ear to the future. Yet like
Bono on l '2 s latest. Hulihrmr s ashran
mutant t- Ivins seem nusplat ed on an
allium in h m nuisital texture. "Men and
women (using each other the slum," he
croons straight-fared while the Australian
Concert On hrstra builds to a t limac tit
crest cutlo tin the diet \ t It ivt
Still. Wftarme works as a whole Part fum
tiling garage iik k, pan trailed pop n roll,
u has something old. something new,
something borrowed and mam things blur
— courtrss ol the brooding cuts on relation
ships INXS hasn't tome fiimplrtch lull
i m It- hut it has put out a promising, pel
sonal piojct t Buyers ol Writ urns to UVo-rei
You An should listen like thirst s ■ Mike
Meyer. Ihr Hadgn-HrraM. I of Wist onstn,
Madison
Morrissey
Your Arsenal
★ ★★★
With his fourth album since the Smiths
demise. Morrissey again proses that even
on his own. he is still the Sultan of Sulk
Ih once pondered sutli profound cjucs
tlolis as “What Difleletite Does it Make
anti "How Simiii Is Now-'. hut with ArvnaL
Mmi!nm‘\ i loscls
inspects life's
hu m .ip.iltlc (rulhs
Stephen sings a
delighlfulls self
tiepiniating romp
(hrough [In- lulls ol
I,inie on ihe iiisi sin
gle, “We Hate It
ssriient 'in i itenns txcotnc mhccssiui
Music alls, \r\truil is iiuirr advanced tliun
anything Momwi and Co. Iiau- rrleasrd in
date- 'You’re < ionna Need Some-one < )n
Youi Side" has a harder roe kahilis ssvtng
than ‘Sing Your Lite’ from lionet Drag.
sshtle “<Certain People 1 Know" is dectdcdls
honky-tonk — Mo//a ssith a countrs twang
But earls Ians rejoice, he still carries the
acoustic six-suing that accompanied him
through Smiths songs like “Please. Please,
Please let Me (et What I Want," pioduting
like-sounding melancholy in "Seasick. Yet
Still Docked" and "I kmns It s Gonna
Happen Someday."
Yes. onc e again, he's cranked up die .uigst,
cou|unng up that old Smiths c hanu Ix-si in
"You're Hie One lot Me. Kalis" ami ui lines
like "ms lose is as sharp as a needle in your
ese ” Kor (axi s sake Mornsses, cheer up. •
(■collies hula. /WiArir/Srsv Boston 1
from t»*r fMhtafcm <4 < fW Sari.«***/ (.Vifcgr *fnn%tsinr
in the studio
on the road
Jmn's Mttctton QmcWy s beoomng more popular brokan up than It ever ms together And
Warner Bros is al ow 'am with Lav and Ran. a sort-oWdwW new Jane's abum hitting stores
Sept 15 and teahiring—you guessed ft—several lee trade and a law ram songs.
You can stop hoicfing your bieatfi: lour very king years after the release of Bind Mao's Zoo.
alternative denies 1I.M Maniacs are raturrang in late September wWi African VMrf Society
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OmMi (the Next Bo Thno?) are wleesino Amtrictn Sttndtftf
Sept 8. the new atoum reported^ sheds eome of the Loe Angela
band $ previous eccemhdty and trades it for loud, metallic
mrk'n'rol. Tha Fane dn is art to iitoase to next albunt some
tone in Me ^fftofwbfr—hopeiuly. The atoum Meady has been
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if mv iQno rwy iw sDUnni mtf ovviriiv vf Hn«n*i
Queen Smmm top hopes so. Mod's nnr atoum 98.9 Fwqort*
edto is Med Mto tough, todMMMch tones. perhaps to a dtopsrato
A bnet look at August-Scptemoer concert listings
Quits 'a* Ratal. Matalltea t Fattk Ha Ham: Vancouver. B.C., 8/17; Seattle, WA. 8/19;
Oakland, CA. 801; Pasadena. CA 8/22, Phoenix, AZ. 805; Las Cruces, NM, 8/27.
LaHapatam: Raleigh, NC. 8/18; Atlanta, GA. 8/20, Miami, a. 8/22; Orlando, a. 8/23;
Charlotte, NC, 8/25; Minneapolis. MN, 8/28; Troy. Wl, 8/29; Atlanta. GA, 8/1; Maw Orleans. IA,
a/4, Houston. TX.SW; Daias, TX 8.3, Phoenix, AZ. 9/8; Lot Angelas. CA. 8/11,12.
l|teI***:Katemnoo.Ml,8/18;CteMiand,OH.8/19: Portland,ME.8/22; StoM.vr.8Q3;
Arnhem MA, 8/24; Wantagh, RY, 8/28,27; Hattewy. PA. 808; Manedetd. MA. 8/30.31; Upper
Darty, PA.9/1; Richmond, VA. ft/2; Adania. GA. 9/4; Pteham.AL.9A; Memphis. TR, M.
Ufc East Rutoertord, RJ, 8/11.13; Washington, OC. 8/15.16; Saratoga, RY. 8/18; Radnro, MA.
800,22, a; FftMftuigh. PA. 80S; PMadatphte. PA. 80,3$**. Ml, ft* Akim, IA. Ml.