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RECORD REVIEW

ICHARD THOMPSON

is reverentially pack-

aged in a three-clisc set;
Ultravox is served up rare;
Bulgarian choristers meet
Norwegians in Trondheim;
Queen Latifah reigns black-
ness.

Richard Thompson — Watching
The Dark, Hannibal Records

-1993°

Thompson, one of the stellar
forces in what has come to be
known as folk-rock, is packaged
with much reverential! detail in
this three-disc box set.

The 47 tracks range from his
Fairport Convention days in the
late 1960s to songs released in
1992. :

Thompson is a consummate -
storyteller and an explosively
original lead guitar player.

Whether romantic ballads,
scathing diatribes or flat-out. .
good-time rockers, all of his
songs are sparked by the ripe
internal tensions of passion and

intelligence.

His output heard as a whole
reveals an ongoing obsession
with the notions of betrayal and
Oss. :

Middle eastern and celtic
melodies figure largely as sus-

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Ultravox — Rare, Chrysalis
Records 1993

A pivotal band in the early-
1980s British pop movement that
saw some trendy bands swap
guitars for synthesizers, Ultravox
stylistically fits in the evolution-
ary chain somewhere between
Kraftwerk and Depeche Mode.

‘With Midge Ure at the vocal
helm, a singer who Malcolm

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McLaren strangely enough once
considered as a vocalist for the
Sex Pistols, the band said ‘Yes to
prog-rock pretensions a la Jon
Anderson,

Realistically, Rare is only
somewhat rare. Interspersed
amongst the live versions of
some of the Ultravox biggies like
The Thin Wall and All Stood Still,
are gems such as a live version of

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