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"Rape Me." Grohl is pounding
his drums with such crashing
intensity, you'd swear the hand
recruited anottier member to just
to play the cymbal.
The songs '‘All Apologies."
and "Dumb" are the two songs
without the heavy distortion.
"Dumb” is a mix of "Polly." "On
a Plain" and "Lithium."
"All Apologies" on the other
hand, is not like anything Nir
vana has done It is probably the
"prettiest" of the songs on In
l tcro hut that depends on vour
definition of pretty
Yeah, virtually every song has
Cobain expressing his fears, frus
tration and downright disgust
with becoming a rock star, but
the musii is what Nirvana s
about, not the words Leave the
"mind-blowing" lyrics to their
Seattle cousins. Pearl Jam.
If anyone can explain what the
chorus of "Milk It." (Doll steak /
Test meat) means, please let me
know.
Mentioning Seattle may ensure
lameness, but the sound that
come out of Seattle still has as big
an impact as anything in the
music business right now. True,
Nirvana wore not the ones who
created that sound. Hut they were
the ones able to work it into the
mainstream, whether that’s good
or bad is still up in the air.
So while Eddie Vedder con
tinues with his stories about how
much music has saved him from
suicide, how rough his life is,
and how difficult it is for him
to stand in a normal position on
stage, let's hope he remembers
that if it weren't for Nirvana, he'd
still Ixi sitting in his Seattle apart
ment going nuts from too much
espresso.
There is a reason Nirvana was
the first band to come out. nor
will they Ire the last band to come
out of Seattle: As In Ultra
proves, they were and are still
the best of that wacky Seattle
Scene, maybe even the world.
- By Dave Charbonneau
Oregon Daily Emerald
I HATER
★ ★★ 1/2
GROUP: Hater
LABEL: A & M
It's hard to hate Haler, n new
hand from Ihnt Seattle Scene
thing
Not only are two of the mem
bers the rhythm section for
Soundgarden — the best band in
the Northwest — hut Hater ore
o legitimate group unto them
selves
And they’re not even gningy
That could mean that Hater
won't sell millions of records, hut
it worked for Pearl Inin, the most
ungrunge and over-hyped group
from that whole Seattle Scene
thing
Hater lead smger Brian Wood's
laconic vocals will never beat out
Soundgatden's lead throat Chris
Cornell, however, his mellow
Marc Hoi,ill T. Rex si\ ie of
singing is intriguing and com
plements the rough-edged guitars
of Ben Shepherd well.
Shepherd, who plays bass lor
Soundgarden. also backs up on
vocals, something he does on a
less often basis for Cornell, and
drummer Matt Cameron even
sings, something he never does
us drummer for Soundgarden.
But somehow, it all works
And it works well
Hater are loose, often settling
into a groove. Their sound is not
as slick and produced ns that of
Pearl Jam. and it is not as slop
pilv annoying os Nirvana's album
Bleach sometimes tended to be.
Hater begins their debut album
with "Mona Bone Jakon,” a song
written by Cat Stevens (a one-hit
wonder from so far back that no
one can even remember the song
that everyone remembers him
for), and Hater pulls it off. nev
er sounding so mellow that you'll
want to sleep and never going so
fast that you want to slam-dance
like music, from that crazy Seat
tle scene thing
I ho whole allium hits ilia!
sanio groove — at little morn than
30 minutes long, it can bo lis
tened to over a bowl of cereal at
breakfast and you won't even
have to remember what song you
left for English class on because
tho album will be over
Very few bands sound so
rough and loose that they sound
good, but Hater are one of them.
If Pearl jam's Eddie Vedder were
trying to hit that high D note and
his voice began to crack like
Wood's does, Vedder would lie
tossed off of the stage at the MTV
Video Music Awards like so
much flannel from that Seattle
Scent* thin#.
But when Wood and Shepherd
got together, cracking voices,
amps and all. the sound could
make them stars.
- By Jake Berg
Oregon Daily Emerald
ABOVE
THE NIGHT
★ ★★
GROUP MvLifewitn
Thrill Kill KuR
" LABEL interscop*
The great thing about My Life
With the Thrill Kill kult is that
no body even wants to bother
pigeonholing this group into
some classification — it wouldn’t
work anyway
Thrill Kill Kult begun is the
soundtrack to u videocamera
filmed nun in that two ('.hit ago
guys wanted to do (the knit's
Hu/z Met ,ov and Groovie Mann),
and the character front the
group's music takes heavily from
film lines, giving songs their
humor.
On "Disko Fleshpot." for
example, movie lines such as
"When I was young I used to piny
doctor with the boys" and "In
case you didn't happen to notice
it. I'm one hell of a gorgeous
chick" pop up out of nowhere
(Free lunch to the first person
who can name Ixith films that the
lines am in.)
Lines like those — and the
many others that dot the songs —
give the hand its imugn and rep
utation of often singing about sex.
More orgasms pop up on a hand
ful of songs from this album than
do on White Zombie's "Welcome
to Planet M l' " or Guns N Kos
es' "Rocket Queen "
Hut if they didn't, it wouldn't
he Thrill Kill Kult — it would
just be the major-label debut of
just another formerly obscure
group.
A number of songs — port it. -
ularlv "Delicate Terror" — lay
down very damnable beats
mixed in between lines like "Join
the children of bell " Other lines
are more difficult to understand,
at times taking on a nice Al Jour
gensen/Ministry type of distort
ed sound.
Who knows what to call it? It's
better music than what deserves
a label, so don't bother trying to
pinpoint it.
- By Jake Berg
Oregon Daily Emerald
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