32 - Wednesday, December 28, 1988 - North Shore News

music

These 1988 releases

still sound good

YOU'VE PROBABLY already
had your fill of “Best Of
1988... dogma, but in the
truly unbridled spirit of
neophyte criticism, | feel
compelled to share with you
a listing of records t still
reach for long after the
shrink wrap has been
buried, and the first blush of
new discovery has settled
into the comfortable groove
of a mutually-supportive
friendship.

In no particular order what-
soever, here is some of what still
sounds great to these ears:
Michael Brecker ~— Don’t Try This
At Home, impulse!/MCA 1988

The bebopping sax master is fast
and far out on the release. He’s
backed by fetlow jazz hotshots
Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis and
Mike Stern. The wild musical
flights of fancy are based on solid
melodic foundations. With sax in
hand, Brecker turns a pretty piece
of twisted metal and valves into a
wailing, honking, living entity.
Traveling Wilburys — Volume 1,
WEA 1988

Some have written the release
off as a half-baked throw-away ef-
fort by a conglomeration of cre-
atively sapped semi-senior
superstars.

MICHAEL
BECKER

record reviewer

Granted, the sum is not greater
than the parts. Rut it’s an addic-
tive, feel-good effort. It lifts the

. spirit and it’s fun to listen to. A
question for the future: With the .
untimely departure of Roy Orbison
Wilbury to the great stage in the
sky, is there enough Wilbury ma-
terial in the can for Volume Il?

The Pogues — If } Should Fall
From Grace With God, Pogue
Mahone/MCA 1988

The rabid, reeling Irishmen let
go wich blazing tin whistles and
accordion-fuelled pandemonium.
The tunes mix the sublime sen-
timentality shared by the best of
Irish poets with the drunken
belly-in-the-gutter ribaldry of a
bunch of boozers who have look-
ed a bit too deeply into the glass.

Any album that contains a song
(Streets Of Sorrow/Birmingham
Six) banned by Iron Lady Thatcher
surely ranks classic status no mat-
ter how you may feel about Shane
MacGowan’s ragged voice.

Tracy Chapman — Tracy Chap-
man, WEA 1988

She came up quickly from
nowhere to share the world centre
stage with pop megastars during
the Amnesty Internationa! tour this
year. She did it by the power of a
clear social vision and an undeni-
able talent. The young black singer
pushes all of the politically correct
buttons and also writes exquisite
love songs.

Sarah McLachlan — Touch, Net-
twerk/Capitol Records 1988

The wide-ranging voice lives
somewhere in a twilight afterglow.
The romantically-pensive collec-
tion from this elemental talent is
heavenly. A stunning debut.

The House Of Love — The House

Of Love, Mercury/PolyGram 1988
An unsettling stream of con-

sciousness business, the guitar-

heavy sound is a jangling ferment
of evocative lullaby lines and ear-
cuffing explosions. While blatantly

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