20 - Wednesday, December 26, 1990 - North Shore News

music

The best of 1990 tunes

ELCOME TO the post-Christmas, pre-GST world
of consumer choices. Boxing Day sales are raging
just beyond your doorstep. Before you rush out to

spend your money on just any old recording, here’s a very
subjective call on what was this year’s best in popular

A Tribe Called Quest — Peo-
ple’s instinctive Travels And
The Paths Of Rhythm, Jive/
BMG 1990

Smooth rapper grooves Move
along neatly, bending backbones

music:

Neil Young and Crazy Horse
— Ragged Glory, Reprise Re-
cords 1950

This is a crank-it-up and scrat-
ch-at-the-stars experience, Wail-
ing. snarling guitars are big and
everywhere, And that guitar
wankers vice of choice — feed-
back — is back in a big way.
The Robert Cray Band Featur-
ing The Memphis Horns —
Midnight Stroll, PolyGram 1990

Sparing soul-blues style make
this one superfine. Delivery rules
here. Tasty Hammond organ licks
snake in and out to add just the
right touch of R&B melodrama.
Pixies — Bossanova, 4AD 1990

Sci-fi kitsch and spacey surfer
sound from a strange new breed.
Sinead O’Connor — 1 Do Not
Want What } Haven't Got,
Chrysalis 1990

Swooping vocal attack and bit-
tersweet insight make for a power-
ful statement.
they Might Be Giants — Flood,
WEA 1990

with sanspled sercadipity and a
breezy blow through the house of
hip hop. The lyrics are clever too.
Suzanne Vega — Days OF
Open Hand, A&M Records
1990

This dream-state sharthand is
equal parts poetry and soothing
INCANTALION.

MICHAEL
BECKER

record review

Pop theatre of the absurd
doesn't come much wackier.
Midnight Oil — Blue Sky Min-
ing, Columbia Records 1996

Obsessed with the environ-
ment? Get a great soundtrack.
Art Bergmann — Sexual
Roulette, Duke Street Records
1990

Wildman Bergmann would
rather straddle a razor blade than
sit on a fence.

The House Of Love, Fontana
1990 -
House of Love paint technicolor
butterflies with sweeping washes
of guitar and majestic melodies.

Turner is outrageous

From page 18

cheek. I’ve had to reassure them
that it's only a play, it’s not
serious.”

Once Turner landed a role in a
Shakespearian play, which pleased
his wife Linda to no end. But Lin-
da, who no doubt had visions of
her husband playing the part of
Hamlet, was let down on opening

night when Turner appeared on” -
stage as a raucous, drunken porter.

“She was really upset because
she thought, ‘at last, he’s got a
serious role.’ ’’

Turner is now considered some-

thing of a Christmas institution in
Deep Cove, and some of his fans
have come to depend on seeing
him in something frilly every time
December rolls around.

He says his friends occasionally
trib him about dressing up as a
woman, but his family doesn’t bat
an eye at the sight of him in
lingerie.

“My kids don’t think what I’m
doing is weird,”’ he says. ““When
someone phones for me they say,
very nonchalantly, ‘Just a minute,
he’s ironing his dress.’ “’

Join W. Vancouver
adult concert band

ADULTS ARE encouraged to keep their musical abilities tuned up
with the West Vancouver Concert Band.

In eastence since 1969, the group consists of a wide variety of
North Shore musicians who pertorm mostly classical music under the
direction of Roy Cornick.

Rehearsals are Monday evenings from 8 to 10 p.m. at Inwin Park
School, 2455 Haywood, West Vancouver. Concerts are usually per-
formed at North Shore venues, but the group sometimes ventures
overtown to entertain. Recently, the band played at the Harbour Light
Mission on Powell Street before the annual Christmas meal.

All instruments are welcome to join the band, but clarinetist Dick
Hrown says baritone suxes, bassoons, bass clarinets, flutes and oboes
are in demand. Interested musicians are invited to show up for
rehearsals, which will begin again on Monday, Jan. 7, or they can call
Dick Brown for more information at 926-8477.

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