MUSIC LIST
o Eli-CULTURE CLUBBER Roy Ray’s new project release their second single, ‘lil Can’t Have You’ on Virgin this week. That’s right: it is the Gibb Brothers’ song which was a hit tor Yvonne Elliman. Following the recent Bee Gees revival, not to mention the Boogie Box Righ hit, it seems to suggest that those oi us who thought we had seen the last oi them are wrong. The John Travolta revival starts next week . . .
0 THE WAKE at last seem to have shaken oil the New Order comparisons with their new EP ior Factory, which ieatures iour tracks: ‘Gruesome Castie’, ‘Paie Spectre’, ‘Furious Sea’ and ‘Plastic Flowers’. ‘Paie Spectre’ also ieatures on the import Factory compilation, Young Popular And Sexy. 0 DRASTlC MEASURES should now he undertaken to avoid contact with the torthcomlng compilation album ‘The tilt Factory— The Best 0i Stock Aitken And Waterman’. Among the mega-talented people ieatured are Sinitta, Samantha Fox, Mel And Kim, and Bananarama. in that company Rick Astley looks (and probably sounds) like a genius.
o CAUSING MUCH EXCITEMENT among AGR men at the moment are the new demos by del Amitri, which show a marked change in direction (tor the better). Here’s hoping they have better luck this time around than their previous misiortune with Chrysalis.
o ALSO OUT NEXT WEEK is the debut album by MILLIONS LIKE US - a duo consisting oi Scottish singer John O’Kane and his keyboard-playing counterpart, Jeep. A solid enough album, but whether Millions like them remains to be seen.
o W WOULD APPEAR that REM have iinally, with theirilith album, reached maga-stardom status in America. Their last album, Llie’s Rich Pageant, reached No. 21 on the Billboard chart, with no hit singles, while Document, released the same week as Michael Jackson’s Bad, sold 500,000 copies in the ilrst week, and looks likely to produce theirilrst big hit with “The One I Love’ racing up the US singles chart. When, oh when, will the British learn?
0 MOTORHEAD FANS may be rejoicing at the return oi Phllthy Phil to the drumseat, but eagle-eyed lens at the band’s recent Glasgow show grew somewhat concerned at Lemmy’s latest additions to the line-up: two medias rliilng away on guitars irom their hiding places in the wings. Listen! says, Bring back Fast Eddie. Never had that kind oi nonsense when he was around.
ALBUMS
0 Fall: Gold Mine Trash (Cherry Red). Felt, this compilation conilrrns, have
one song, and they’ve been churning it out with grim determination since 1980. The really annoying thing is that whenever some minor deviation to the Felt tormuia is attempted, Lawrence (the indie scene's answerto Howard Hughes) opens his mouth and strangles the song with that ridiculously limited
Lou-Reed-was-actually-born-in- Birmingham-you-know monotone. The best distillation oi the sell-consciously arty combo’s essence is ‘Primitive Painters’ (on which Cocteau Twin Liz Fraser guests), but that's not saying a lot. Not much tun.
0 Alan Rankine: She Loves Me Not (Virgin). This album sees Billy McKenzie’s err-Associates partner pursuing his Europop dream, and although i haven’t been keen on any oi the solo Rankine material i’ve heard on the radio, there are some lovely moments on this album. ’Days and Days’ in particular has a heautitully understated book, which grips a little lighter with each hearing. The tracks that don’t impress, however, strike this listener as being unremarkable in almost every way. When Rankine’s good, he's very very good, but . . .
SINGLES
o Finl Tribe: I Want More (Wax Trax). Not so diiierent irom Can’s original version, which puts it head-and-shouiders above most oi the flock anyway, Finl Tribe’s rendition is it anything more muscular and percussive. Considering how dltierent it is to the rest oi their set, how long are they going to hang on to the new ians won over by this single?
0 The Wonder Stuii: Unbearable (Far Out). Billing and jittering guitars, this beats the grebo stuli by miles, a comparison i only bring up because oi a slight vocal resemblance to Pop Will Eat ltseit. Three minutes and it’s over- just as it should be. Great.
0 Martyn Bates: The Look oi Love (Cherry Red). Risky synth- and string-laden cover version by iormer Eyeless In Gaza man, and one blunted by over-iamiliarity and the impossibility oi iorgetting just how well some people have done this song.
0 Lowliie: Eternity Road (Nightshiit). Lowliie have built up quite a back catalogue in the last two years, with little reward. This is probably their most accessible number yet, but i still knew the whole song alter only one bar. 0 Pioneer Corps: Pioneer Corps EP (Nightshiit). Produced by, and ieaturing, two Comsat Angels, this isn’t an auspicious event ior anyone involved. Sub-white boy pop without a glimmer oi passion, soul, enjoyment or any human ieeling at all. Doubt it even Radio 1 would play it.
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