Dig TOTEN HOSEN |

LEAFINING ENGLISH, LESSON ONS

Die Toten Hosen — Learning
‘English, Lesson One, Warner
Music 1994

The disc cuts a razor’s swath

through the British and American -

punk music scene of the Jate 1970s.
The catalyst for this celebratory
‘gorging upon angst, anger and anti-

establishment outburst is a German ©

punk band, Die Toten Hosen (literal
translation — The Dead Pants).
Alt Beer inspiration — or ‘per-

-haps a‘jug or two of England's Old

Peculiar, brought the Dusseldorf

Deutsch lads to immerse themselves °

in the rude energy pulsing across the
Channel during the closing years of
what otherwise was a fitful decade
for pop music.

: The affair has continued. Die

"Toten Hosen sustain: a career. for

“themselves in Germany riding the

“the band with members of the vari-
ous groups that originally put out
the hits, and non-hits. Y

‘Varicus — Ahora Si!

UK Subs, The Damned, The
Dead Boys, The Dictators, The
Lurkers, Sham 69, The
Heartbreakers, The Ramones are
among the bands to make this gritly
hitlist.

The tegendary Johnny Thunders
died 36 hours after
Dusseldorf. The disc's version of
Born To Lose is the last recording he
made before checking out.

Ronald Biggs, the British train
robber and Sex Pistols/Malcolm
McLaren cohort on the lam in Brazil
blusters his way through two prick-
ly songs.

Smash it up.

‘Big Sugar — Five Hundred
Pounds, Hypnotic Records 1993
Big Sugar, Hypnotic 1992

They call it “alternablues” and
the term’s malleable enough to
-hold the ‘many styles mastered by
Toronto-based blues-blender guitar
champ Gordie Johnson.

Sometimes slick, often raw and
always smart, both discs are worth
seeking out if the blues are your
weakness.

Big Sugar is at the Commodore
April 8.
Here
Comes Changui, Corason 1995

This gritty and basic Cuban
dance music: form is over: 100
years old and is thought to be a

mix of Spanish and African influ-.
ences that are rooted
Caribbean. .

Intoxicating rhythm drives the
thing, with marimbula, bongos,

“rayo (metal scraper) and maracas
‘framing the percussive-plucking.

“tres” ‘Suitar style.

MOVIES... Tonight at 9 p.m. on channel 12
the graceful Audrey Hepburn is cast in one
of. her’ most memorable roles: * Holly
Golightly in, Blake Edwards’ Breakfast at
Tiffanys: Teamed with a surprising perfor-
mance. by George Peppard and Henry
, Mancini’s recognizable score. this is movie

magic é at its best.

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