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music “NOW:
Bee gals abuzz a =
with meaningful lyrics) narey new year

Chez Michel will be closed from
January 1 to January 12, we will
reopen on January 13, see you then.

FOUR-WINGED social insects strike with a strong
giri-group voice; a North Vancouver puppeteer
moves kids with song; a posh-pop rehash makes

Especially honed wit is to be found
in | Was A Maoist Intellectual,
hove On Ice, and The Homosex-
ual.

926-4913

for mestly moist music; a tender pervert tells all.

Voice Of The Beehive — Let It
Bee, PolyGram Records 1988
Yet another girl group sound
challenger to do battle with The
Bangles and Bananarama and
others of the ilk. There are the re-
quisite peppy power chords and
the bright, high-voiced harmonies
working through a teen angst in-
ternal tandscape defined by rosy
notions and primal surges.

MICHAEL
BECKER

record reviewer

But the Bee gals edge out the
Bangle gals et al because they
don’t come off smacking of the
prediciable submissiveness other
girl-group practitioners deal in.
Beehive lyrics play with word
meanings and portray a certain
naive sense of integrity and
strength.

tn essence, Voice Of The
Beehive are Californians Tracey
Bryn and Melissa Brooke Belland.
The band is based in London. A
friendship with Zodiac Mindwarp
{the warp in the Love Reaction)
resulted in a collaborative effort on
the release called There’s A Bar-
barian In The Back Of My Car. The
songs with the most potent
stingers include Don’t Call Me
Baby, Beat Of Love, and | Sa

‘Nothing. .

Sure it's the old boy meets girl
routine, but this time the buzz is
from girls who have something to

say.
Norman Foote, LP Music 1938
The man responsible for |
‘unleashing the large sasquatch
(carrying a squirming man in its -
arms) at the Vancouver Comedy. -

Festival on Granville island and at —

the Worid Expo 88 in Brisbane
Australia last summer, is also an

accomplished children’s musician. °°

The self-titled release by the
North Vancouver residentisa —-
polished collection of songs sung
with the five-foot-tall and under -

crowd in mind.

The musicianship is of a calibre
that won't grate the ears of the

Canada's Music Channel
From ballads to soul, 19 rock and roll
PLUS
interviews, top hits, gokden oldies, live
concerts, special musical tnoutes and
music wdeos from around the world!
Quality chorce for today's selective wewer.

Parents purchasing music to feed
the habits of the Fisher Price tape
deck set. And the upbeat songs are
easy to share. Highlights include
the break-of-day rousing Get Up
and the breezy Mr. Wind.
Human League — Greatest Hits,
Virgin Records 1988

Doe-eyed, thin-lipped Phii
Oakey managed to keep the Shef-
field posh-pop purveyors on the
charts for close to a decade with,
for the most part, a liberal load of
soggy sound,

There was one perfect pop song
produced by the League and it’s
included here. Don’t You Want
Me 8x by? was a number-one mil-
lion seiler plucked from the
group’s third album, Dare. But
one great hit does not merit a
greatest hits package. The rest is
simply sappy and insipid.

Momus — Tender Pervert, Cre-
ation Records 1988

Some guys will do anything to
turn a buck these days, including
committing to plastic gender-
bending tales of homosexual in-
trospection and misogynist intents.

if the intensely autobiographical
stance of Momus’ songs is to be
believed, then he was “born in
the town of Paisley in early 1960
and placed in the care of an old,
eternal bachelor.”

The old queen taught him how
to cut down and kill the muscle-
bound with words. Sings Momus,
“And women should be hated,
but first impersonated. And charm,
he said, is essential to misogyny.
He taught me how to woc the
gicls, in order to outdo the girls.
And then the fun would come
when ! got them to Jove me.”

- The collection is a fascinating,

‘frank piece of work. The singing

style falls somewhere between

- Donovan and Al Stewart. The

lyrics are as sharp as razors.

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