Defining Living Color • Consistently Sting • Belly Explores
Its Feminine Side • Doubts AboutJesusJones • Zevon Howls
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Ten Summaner's Tales (A&rM)
★ ★★★
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o\rt some o| his Ih*sI work 111 \rais li.lt krd
l>\ an all-star band, it's haid to find a flaw in
this album
I hr real gem in this album is a ir-rrlrav
ol "It s Probabh Mr." a song first drlivrird
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c tmilest and blursiesl ol all the tunes, illumt*
natetl l>% the guitat woi k of F m ( lapton
II their is one word to drst nbr Sting s
woik, it has to !*■ consistent Hr hasn't sold
out his st\lr oi his fans, marking his maturitv
sun r his rebellious davs with 1 hr Pol it r
Passionate vocals, poetic Ivrus, a tool, )«U/V
feel and the sweetest i hvthm set t tot is aiound
— these air the ingredients lor a gieat album,
and appaienth Sting's found the rec ipe? ■
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lntugumg Ivmal themes indml, but the
muiK sometimes falls sboit. I'hc lour songs
prod in rd b\ (»il Norton (Pixirv iVrr l bu)
air thr urongni; pcppv drums ami giddv
guitar styling* c iratr contrast with Donuriv s
disturbing bins Some of tbr slowri songs,
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Jesus Jones
Perverse (EMI)
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hit unglr .me) uilrn. "Right Hrir Right
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couple oi t.iainim nommaiioin and mint
likrb thr onlv hit it'll r\ri have
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would Ik- lunkilgf dist i»
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hom Right Urn*. Right Novs and rr|xat it
cnntinttalh throughout t is new release I hr
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av i hr poll in ally c or reel Ivm % of Mike
Kdwards are whispered through a < hresv
pose l hr huhhlr gum politic % arr mil an
attempt ai making global com rim palatable
in fhr youth hui an attempt at siinplv fluffs
and t * mimed mai krtmg
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rnrd single vrisit ms of thr dan< r ext tiixn >ns
It \tin t an t alibid to go to a c luh. vou can
turn up thr music and have* somr frtrnds
blow smoke* in vout face*, flic k thr lights on
and of) and wave a /W*'ini IHingitlmfiont
of vimi rvrs as sour pupils expand I*or even
one else. /VmrrvoHris onh thr jagged feel
ing of next-das iralnv ■Joe Train*, Honda
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in the studio
Ahh-ouu1 Warren Zavon is howling again Zevon responsible tor more than two decades ol
music and the ever-classic singles 'Werewolves of London" and Excitable Boy is working
-- — -, on an album to be released in April
Zovon Sti* exdttnfc
After a brief detox from Jane s Addiction. Kerry Karren s oacx win
hts new band Pomo for Pyrov and a debut album slated for release
m April As those who caught Porno's rare gigs at Lollapaloo/a last
summer can attest, look for a more tribalized reincarnation of the
Jane s sound
After six years chameleon actor/rocker David Bowia is changing
back to the color of music and working on a solo proiect due out at
the end of April Black Tie. While Noise produced by Nile Rodgers, is
backed by A1 B Sure! and Mick Ronson, along with some other
insightful musicians — including Bow* doing his Clinton imperson
ation on sax
Following the Dry album. PJ Harvey mixes it up again in a London studio Her latest shock
n rock thriller is due m stores late spring
While hiding out in an L A. studio, punk rocker Billy Idol hopes to wrap up his new release
by early spring or summer, but as lar as details about the sound, "mum's the word Irom EMI
Once a punk, always a punk? Not necessarily . ■ Jill O'Brlon, Dally Nebraskan, U. ol Nebraska
on the road
A brief look at March concert listings
Elvis Costello and the Brodsky Quart*! Los Angeles CA 3.14 San Francisco. CA. 315 los
Angeles CA. 3/16 Boston MA 3/17, New York. NY. 3/18
Gin Blossoms: New Orleans LA. 3/1 Birmingham AL 3/2 Tuscaloosa AL 3/3 Fl Lauderdale
FL. 3/5. Tallahassee. FL 3/6 Tampa. FL. 3/7. Orlando. FL 3/9 Athens GA 3/10 Atlanta GA
3/11; Raleigh. NC. 3/12. Chapel Hilt. NC. 3/13
King Missilr Jacksonville FL 3/6 Atlanta GA 3/7, Charleston. SC. 3/8 Wilmington NC 3'10
Raleigh, NC 3/11; Charlotte NC 3/12. Virginia Beach VA. 3/13. Richmond. VA 3/14 Washington
DC 315 Asbury Park. NJ, 318 Philadelphia PA. 319 New York. NY. 3?0. Long Island NY 3/21
Phtsli: Los Angeles CA 318 Sacramento, CA. 3/22, Santa Rosa. CA 3/24. Santa Cruz CA 3^25
quotable
“It's not any kind of primal scream therapy — it’s just so
people can tap their damn foot.”
—frank Black (formerly Black Francis of The Pixies) on rock n' roil