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Scrimshaw page 3 Rorketi"" to RespertafJUitfl Ramones Broaden Style Tim Windsor overwhelming trend of public until it wraps everything up in the My roommate hates the resistance. last part of the song ... Ramones. Positively loathes them. And the whole while they were "In Ihe morning I'm at werk un See, the boys aren't meaningful releasing some of the best singles lime enough for him. I, on the other since Phil Spector hung it up in the My boss he tells me I'm doing hand, love their music and play late 60's. Really. To put the Iine Ramones albums more often than Rarnones in one easy to swallow When I'm going home not. capsule description would be to Whiskey bottle, movie 011 TV We get into a lot of fights call them The Beach Boys with J\IemoriesllHlkemecry His type of knee-jerk reae- guts, but that would also be And I'm alone just me tionism is typical but, in most slighting them horribly. They're Just me questioningly," cases, understandable. It makes more than the Beach Boys, more sense that people would shy away than anyone group before them This from the same group that from the unknown - when was the They manage to blend tough rock wrote "Now J wanna Sniff Some last time you heard the Ramones and roll with a great. warped sense Glue'?" Yes. It marks a point in on the radio. This is because of the of humor. Take, for example, these their career when they can write same reason that you hate them' weighty lyrics ... and play convincingly in many their image. Somewhere along the "Staring at my goldfish bowl different styles line, somebody tagged the Popping Phenobarbitol Ramones as PUNK ROCK and Ureissoheautirul As always the major emphasis of ever since they've been fighting l'vegonement.'1I." the album is on wall-busting rock. their way uphill against the Yet, even with all their off-the- played quick, loud bursts. Brevity the wall songs (sample titles "Bad is clocking key, with most songs if RECORDS Brain," "Cretin "I Wanna Be Sedated" also you're looking you'd for heavy metal go in under three minutes: they've Hop.") and dinosaurs, better included "Questioningly," songs here. a few more conventional for elsewhere. But if you're sitting a party that's going example, is a lilting, Eagle-esque around at remember that you only nowhere, Peter Gabriel's Second ballad in which the singer meets an by have yourself to blame for passing and old lover of his and is plagued up in the record store this the memory of what they used to Kansas Effort: Dark Yet Cheery have between them. It vacillates getting y'know? 1.h'e. Caveat emptor, between over, and understatement section. Fripp's unique guitar "Animal Magic" which is rock and SEAFOOD SALE roll a la Peter Gabriel. Also fitting Since Peter Gabriellefl Genesis ·:~:~~il~~:~~t~~,:~~~~iCS" category is into "Per- in 1974 to satisfy his solo needs, he spective." this which only goes to show may have lost a band but isn't "Mother of Violence", co-written Shrimp Crab Meat missing any of his own creativity by Peter and Jill Gabriel. has that even Peter Gabriel can or direction. His two solo albums, lilting piano and guitar, ac- descend from the heights once in awhile and boogie like anyone else. both simply titled Peter Gabriel companied by an introductory Rock Shrimp $14,00/5 tbs- Claw $3.75/lb (an avoidance of preconceptions section of insects buzzing away, Despite the none-too-cheery Special $4.50/lb. and gimmickry, perhaps") have creating a para dox between words verbal sentiments, the overall Med.·Lg. Shrimp $17.50/5Ibs. Backfin $6.00/lb. provided him room for growth as and instrumentation. view of the second Peter Gabriel an artist in his own right. i~~mi~!~~esi~ ~!~ ._~ Bayette's bright keyborad work ;~~~~ox~:. L Order thru ~f!~d ~!p::~~~~~~rN~~,v1~UI C cscet ....:::.:::::.:::.:::;:::;;=.;;;:,;:;.;,;; To put it mildly, Gabriel has bounces along in "A Wonderful derstatement comes from always possessed an alarmingly Day In A One-Way World" where "Animal Magic" where Peter tells unusual view of life. His urban we find that even Peter Gabriel us, "I'm Joining the I visions disturbing, immediately has trouble finding parking on Satur- professionals," there. if he Howwould Shakespeare just are complex, curiously places when he goes shopping vivid, already weren't l personal and symbolism. It's with a day. laced mythological tough world, filled with fighting; In "Exposure", the theme of the have played O'Keefe? fighting just to stay alive amidst song seems to be "Space is what I the swirls of confusion and despair. need, it's what I feed on." This 4 ~inute 12 second cut is completely With gusto. And in all seasons. Before you follow Josephine different space than the rest of the It is a brew for listening toa winter's tale. It's a liberation in praise (from "Home Sweet Home") out album due to the overwhelming of a midsummer night's dream. It is hearty, full-bodied. It is smooth and easygoing the nearest window or buy another Frippertronics. And the head of O'Keefe is like the crown of a king. down. lock to add to the collection on your The slower, more emotional And all the players act upon the theme, "It's too good to gulp:' door after you read the lyrics, put pace of "indigo" is followed by the record on. 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