22 - Friday, August 19, 1988 - North Shore News

Iggy Pop — Instinct, A&M 1988

THE IGSTER returns with
what might well be the best
LP he’s put out in many
years.

This one washes away the
residual bad taste a lot of people
were left with following the release
of Blah Blah Blah two years ago.

He wallows in crooner mode for
one very bad song, Lowdown.
Three of the four songs he co-
writes with former Sex Pistol
guitarist Steve Jones seem oddly
flaccid when stacked up against the
rest of the tunes solely penned by
Pop. The fourth Pop/Jones col-
laboration, Square Head, is
destined to be a classic Pop cut.

As is the case throughout the
LP, and throughout most of Pop’s
career output, the lyrics for
Square head are particularly inane:
“*You can stuff hamburger in my
head, but I ain’t gonna be no
square head.’’ But that’s okay,
because with Pop, it’s all in the
delivery — which, at its best, is
done here with a perverse, snarly,
spit-in-your-face posture.

This LP is good because he
delivers the danger. The at-
mosphere is sustained by Steve
Jones’ grinding guitar power
chords and drummer Paul
Garisto's simple, steady hand.

Joe Louis Walker — The Gift,
Hightone Records 1988

He has been hailed as a new star
on the blues horizon. He picks up
where Otis Reading left off with a
blend of traditiona! blues and
Memphis soul.

The lyrics
are inane

but new Iggy

Pop aibum

delivers danger

Products of the San Francisco
Bay area, Walker and his band the
Boss Talkers tap into the gritty
essence of the yenre without being
overly pedantic about it. The
sound of The Gift is beefed up
with the appearance of the Mem-
phis Horns on a number of cuts.

The LP opens with a grea! shuf-
fling number called One Time
Around. The gospel-spirited Mama
Didn’t Raise No Fool rings true.

Blues fans can check out the
bluesman in the flesh tonight when
he plays 86 Street.

Gerry Rafferty — North & South,
Polydor 1988

His first LP release in six years
is one heck of a slick package.
Rafferty has got his format down
pat and the result is an inoffensive
collection of tunes that should
provide plenty of fodder for the
Adult-Oriented Radio program-
mers.

MICHAEL
BECKER

music reviewer

} can’t help but admire Raffer-
ty’s song-writing capability, but
after numerous listenings | also
can’t ignore the creeping
homogeneity of it all,

The offering is a type of Dire
Straits for the relaxed person —
the person in solidarity with the
fashionably chic Celtic spirit.

The voice is limited but
soothing. Rafferty has a safe,
commercial success on his hands.
Perfect folk-pop tunes like North
and South, Moonlight and Gold,
Hearts Run Dry, and Shipyard
Town will sell the disc and lull the
fans.

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