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WRY MUSICAL statements from Timbuk3 reveal that America’s
warped cultural mutations provide the basis for enlightened inter-
pretation in the right artistic hands.

Timbuk3 hits

MBUK 3 offers A-side finely-honed irony. Hear how less
music from the B-side 20 be more. And then go see
se . them five and up close at the
d of life; ere eats itself Town Pump on Sunday night.
an Inds avor in the ** pop will Eat itself —- This is
regurgitation; Crazyhead The Day ... This Is The How...
crunches sound for hard- This ts This!, BMG Records 1989
rock heads; Tina turns out Paci ras
another.

*** Timbuk 3 — Edge Of
Allegiance, §.R.S. 1989

Are Pat and Barbara K. Mac-
donaid trying to tell us something?
— “Once { got lucky. t had a
band. We had a song, it got to
number three. Made lots of
money, made lots of friends ...
Now all I want is a place to hide ...
'm 30 with a bullet from the B- fuming, spittle-faced quartet of
side of life.’ Englishmen. Verging on the too-

B-Side Of Life, Standard White _ too smart, PWEI suck up pop
Jesus, National Holiday, would all cliches by the beat-box full and
sound simply swell on the radio. scatter-shot blast away with
But seductive harmonies from teft  sample-happy, high-technique
field are hard-pressed for space on hip-hop. Think of Beastie Boys
rigidly-formatted airwaves. Pick up _ tearing it up with Front 242 over in
the tape-CD-record. Check out the XTC’s backyard and you begin to

MICHAEL &
BECKER

record review

A roaring assault courtesy of a

The Avalon Hotel announces the
return of its famous ...

PRIME RIB

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Tharsday nights
in our Bistro

CROSSINGS RESTAURANT
presents « =

JASON
HOOVER

AND "THE MIDNIGHT GROOVERS”. ie
Oct. 20, 24 & 27, 28:

- ‘Canada's
'9& B King’

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Free Parking

grasp a sense of the passible here.

For attitude-to-go, pump up with
Sixteen Different Flavours Of Hell
or Inject Me. PWEL is belligerently

boisterous fare for those who must
metaboiize the loud and the tren-

dy.
ote Crazyhead — Desert Or-
chid, EMI Records Ltd. 1988

This Leicester squad lets loase to
lob 1960s-style pop propelled by
the sound and fury that powered
the first-wave British punk bands a
decade ago. Crazyhead share the
rude and compelling hard-rock
energy of English cohorts The
Godfathers.

Spleen-venting prevails, with soft
and fleshy words of the heart ab-
sent from the Crazyhead lexicon.
The grittier examples of
peevishness include Time Has
Taken Its Toll On You and What
Gives You The Idea That You‘re
So Amazing Baby?

The Crazyhead look is leather,

HAVE YOUR PEOPLE CALL MY PEOPLE

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