28 - Friday, June 24, 1988 -

Psychedelia_
gets an -

North Shore News

"BOs update | |

A. CALIFORNIAN band
= sets out to shake-up the

‘mainstream: ‘with contem-
"porary: psychedelia; ‘an Boy

‘Australian band: brings on

7 “new tough-gal tunes;: Monty

Python shamelessly, cashes:
in with yet another’. ©
“retrospective compilation;

Ry Cooder and. Robin ~
‘Williams breathe life into a
Wild. West legend.”

(MICHAEL
"BECKER.

: music reviewe ro

Cataper Van Beethoven, Our .
Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart,
Virgin Records 1988 !
¢ psychedelic ethos is returned
a reverential update by this:
clever Californian outfit. ‘Careful:
listeners will find between the
x groo 03: logic-defying, music-i
reverse tape treatments; nifty,
re lyrical: references; | brain

will measure the success ofthe
band’s first ‘album for Virgin by

into, Led Zep and Foghat while
hanging out with tink dudes and:

. pretty miich bee!

alternative college’ music scene with -

Divinyls — Teniperamen 2
Chrysalis Records, 1988
Any. record cover depictin

8!
p front.with the silhouette ofa”.

man swinging a large lizard by. the ;

‘front ¢ cover and the toothy. band- :
‘saw blade on the flipside simply.
“add not-¢o-subtie visual commen- :

" Songstress ‘Christina Amphiett
carries on the bad-girl-of-rock; .
hard sexual music tradition set bes

bane third album. Amphlett s
vocal delivery incorporates a *
strange hiccup-yodel af fectatio
The trait works to best advantage
on Hey Little Boy, a cheeky’. ©

ie! remake of the 1963 Syndicate of
: Sound classic, Hey Little Girl. #

’ While a couple of the songs.
digress into the realm of pointless.

“> ly sensitive artistic drivel, the®

“bloody murder from the crowded «|
record racks with the image ofa...
"torn white sheet oozing bicod-. |”

spattered internal body. goop.

making people laugh — and so it
The inimitable pythons return”

with a completely different twa-

record set of more of the same

“best of? routines culled from the
"70s and carly ‘80s. :

: There are the classic songs —
Finland Song, Sparn, Lumberjack
Song. There are the classic sket-
ches ~~: French Taunter, Cheese. :

- Shop, Braces. : “ Ve

Sf you don't already have a
Monty Python retrospective, the

collection is worth owning. it's a
~~ lunatic’s smorgasbord of the best. f
of the bunch before these Brits lost.”

their wonderfully outrageous sense
of hostile humor. y :

‘Ry Cooder aad Robin Williams —

Pecos Rad, Windham He records |

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The. scope of children's records
available today has broadened
considerably thanks in‘part to the
procreative tendencies of haby

boomers ‘and the vision displayed .

by outfits like Windham Hill. -
>The ‘Storybook Classics series
has already drawn on the talents of:
actors like Jack Nicholson and.
Mery! Streep to redefine the
timeless storics of Rudyard Kipling ..
and Beatrix Potters

“This time around, an American

Wild West folk legend i is reworked |.
by comic genius Robin Williams. ::
“His Erackpol cowpoke yara-spinn-’

“ing is well scored with a serics of

: oy Cooder instrumental vignetics.

Heat up the beans and slap’on
“this chunk of vinyl. for some: fire-
“side family fun. .

Hey, but this record i is all about

£ 101, Esplanade ane old Keg) ”

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