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WORLD SAXOPHONE QUARTET Metamorphosis (Nonesuch, do Elektra, 75 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10019) Comprised of Arthur Blythe and Oliver Lake (more or less leaders) and augmented by David Murray and Hamiet Bluiett (more or less the enormously talented co-conspirators who don't always get the credit they deserve), the World Sax Quartet has been making a rubbery mess of the rulebook for brass bands for eons now. Known for stretching the axioms of the horn section to suit their own whims, fancies and ideas, the WSQ manages, in the process, to single-handedly rearrange the very ideas of what a brass band should be and what it can or can't do. The Dirty Dozen may be better to march or dance to, but the WSQ is more seriously interested in firepower: They build complex brass structures rippling with strength and tension con-structed from the simple base of their four horns (oh yeah—this time there's loads and loads of crazy drumming, too). If four wildly gyrating, simultaneously improvised melody lines screaming over a multi-layered bevy of authentic African percussion seems like it might just be your bag, then you'll absolutely dig "The Holy Men" or "Metamorphosis." Meanwhile, "Ballad For The Black Man" may be some of the most eloquent and resonant playing on its theme and subject matter ever, while "Africa," "Lullaby" and "Masai Warriors Dance" are so utterly amazing that they make other bands' horns seem like so much useless plumbing and aluminum hardware by comparison.

360'S Illuminated (Link, do Hollywood, 500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91521) The 360's are all about guitars, melding the tightly packed electric interplay of the best Pretenders with the squalling feedback and dreamy rhythms of heavier, darker dual-guitar combos. Sort of like Nirvana with a female singer and a humongously raucous production ¡ob, the 360's aren't afraid to take those amps and guitars and pedals and play real songs, proving that even at this young stage, this band certainly knows how to sink a pop hook into the fleshy ¡aws of a dark and slightly sinister guitar attack. You can sense buried undercurrents of unease and desperation beneath the loud and brash guitar fanfare, as the 360's delve deeply into guitar murk and mire, drenching their sound in a dark ambience that suits the generally somber lyrical tone. No matter what, the six-strings are always in-between your ears, right where they belong, often phased, flanged or distorted to an extreme (the title track and a couple of others almost have a Lush-like feel), but always borne on strong melodic wings. Spin these: "Deadpan Superstar," "Texas," "It," "Heroine" and the title track.

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URGE OVERKILL Supersonic Storybook (Touch And Go, P.O. Box 25520, Chicago, IL 60625/312-463-8316) In the Greatest Third LP by a Chicago Rock Band prizefight, Urge Overkill now looms as the Terry Norris to Cheap Trick's Sugar Ray Leonard, Supersonic Storybook coming on sparring terms with Heaven Tonight (plus Nate Kato does bear a Silly Putty-likeness to Robin Zander). Always the indie scene's most glamourous and sartorially splendorous live act, they've finally made a record as classy and impeccably well-put-together as one of their onstage outfits; all com-ponents—vocal, melodic, rhythmic and Nate's hanky-with-soul guitar—fit into a whole that's messianically greater than the sum of its parts. In a subversive way, this is the most mid-'70s redolent Urge has ever been (the Steppenwolf organ fills and their cover of Hot Chocolate's "Emmaline" isn't the least of it). Nate's guitar leads are let loose for a lingering, unrushed stoner timelessness that only "Head On" had a grasp on previously, and within the indolent iridescence of the playing, the band can sift in stadium anthems ("The Kids Are Insane") LaBelle/War kitsch ("Bionnaissance"), a depend-able encore for sweaty clubs ("Today Is Blackie's Birthday") and indie-band-as-the-last-frontier for redemptive rock songs ("Vacation In Tokyo"). Urge Overkill sticks to its guns with enough in-strumental juice to run all but the Sonic Youths and Dinosaurs out of town, but they have an attitude that's irresistible to any doobie-smoking 15-year-old.

LEGENDARY PINK DOTS The Maria Dimension (Play It Again Sam, do Caroline, 114 W. 26th St., New York, NY 10001/212-989-2929) The Legendary Pink Dots have been claimed as in-fluences by everyone from your standard bunch of high-school basement goths to the decidedly un-ethereal Voivod, and with their 13th release, such adaptability and disparate appeal makes more sense than ever. The band's absorption of ¡ust about every artsy, intellectual rock movement of the past 25 years is mapped out clearly—'60s psychedelic frolic, '80s psychedelic twee and '70s prog meanderwankings form the three petals of the Dots' florid parlor-pieces. Vocalist Edward Ka-Spel is responsible for those nagging visions of the Pastels playing early Emerson, Lake & Palmer covers, or the Dukes Of Stratosphear if they had really been New Order instead of XTC. (Preten-sion is a fine thing if handled properly, but listing tea cups as one of the instruments is somewhat out of hand.) What rescues Ka-Spel's more blatant Barrett-ings are his nearly-as-whimsical melodies, and the overall reverberations of all phases Floyd are loftier in their ambitions than Floyd ever was, the techno-churn never lapsing into truly embar-rassing pomposity. The Nice handled its art-school manifestos with as much gaiety and sense of ad-venture, and for a band to aim so unconditionally for the heavens and actually bring back lab samples is rare and encouraging. Go for baroque: "Disturb-ance," "Pennies For Heaven," "Home," "Bella-donna" (not a Stevie Nicks cover) and "Third Secret."

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MIND FUNK Mind Funk (Epic, P.O. Box 4450, New York, NY 10101-4450)—Mind Funk is of a singular breed— its sound is held inclusively within metal's bounds, but it doesn't succumb to metal's less than cogent tendencies and it has a magical ability to wriggle out of metal's funk/thrash/AOR/etc. sub-groupings. The band tosses around suitably elastic rhythms, plays rough and rackety, and delves beyond the three-chord, sub-cranial slam in both lyrical and instrumental composition, but MF bears no relation to any catchphrase that normally sends A8.R grunts a-slobber-ing. The Jersey five's debut is notable for its physicist's dexterity in balancing easily abused powers for an animated, quintuple piledrive. The band batters about repetitive, maxi-mum-strength riffing to within an inch of overkill, setting up head-snapping grooves that don't bury their intellects. Pat Dubar goes out of his way to hit the very reaches of his vocal range, but he doesn't ham it up too much and the band's always stam-peding right behind. Moderated throughout by their admirable sense of restraint, they've got the mechanics of contagious songwriting down to an equation so that all the more heaviness can be harnessed with-out crushing their pop-hit potential. Top Cuts: "Big House Burning," "Blood Runs Red," "Innocence" and "Touch You."

VARIOUS ARTISTS Le Mystere Des Voix Bulgares, Vol. III (Fontana, c/o PLG, 825 Eighth Ave., New York, NY 10019)—Marcel Cellier, who has brought to the attention of American audiences the compeling and exquisite vocal beauty of the Bulgarian RTVB Choir, brings us, in Vol. III, the works of four dif-ferent Bulgarian choirs. The gravity-defying magic and beauty of these various choirs is fully captured in this third volume. Made up of singers recruited from the countryside, these choirs carry on the 500-year-old Bul-garian vocal and song tradition. On this 14-song release, pain, joy and hope all are explored with the complex emotional effect that history has bestowed upon Bulgaria. The four choirs—Choir Trakia, Choir Rodopi-Smolian, Choir Tolbuhin and the RTVB Choir—are uniquely assigned a reper-toire that is most fitting to each persona. The work of the Troika Choir, in particular, has an honesty and upfront sincerity that suggests a genuine musical vision. Put

together, all four choirs goad us into a renewed appreciation and understanding of the richness of the Bulgarian folklore.

NOVA MOB The Last Days Of Pompeii (Rough Trade, 611 Broad-way, New York, NY 100121212-777-0100) —As a concept album, The Last Days Of Pompeii is as all-encom-passing and perplexing as the stories it tells. Former Husker Grant Hart and his new band, Nova Mob, have created an album which has elements of the past—Pliny The Younger's chronicling of the fall of Pompeii and the WVv J1 :..ories of German rocket scientist Wernher von Braun—for bricks, and Grant's imagination and his band's musical expertise as its mortar. While we couldn't entirely sort out Grant's musical science fiction (maybe we're not supposed to understand it all), The Last Days Of Pompeii does boast some of Grant's finest songs to date. "Admirol Of The Sea," exposed to us in January on an EP, is included here in its original form and again in a more subtle take (the "79 A.D. Version"), which is hauntingly powerful with its muted bassline. "Wernher Von Braun" is a perky pop song recalling some of the more melodious Husker moments, while "Space Jazz" is decidedly un jazzy, with its William S. Burroughs-like far-away vocals and driving rhythm that's as ominous as the advancing of troops. Other picks: "Where You Gonna Land," "Persuaded" and the title cut.

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MUUNGANO NATIONAL CHOIR OF KENYA Missa Luba (Philips, do PLG, 825 Eighth Ave., New York, NY 10019)—The Muungano National Choir Of Kenya, a chorus consisting of 60 native Kenyans and one of Africa's premier choirs, charts the spread of international music with their awe-inspiring LP. Misse Luba is an essentially African piece of music, rich in harmonies and arresting rhythms and pulsations, superimposed onto the structure of the Latin mass. The choir brings forth a degree of emotionalism and sheer beauty revealing the depth of mean-ing associated with the Catholic religious ceremony. Boniface Mganga, the renowed Kenyan conductor, gives Misse Luba a precise and sharply contoured reading that

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TERMINALS Uncoffined (Flying Nun, P.O. Box 677, Auckland, New Zealand/649-774-607)—With a prim-itive psychedelic garage feel and a surf punk agitation, New Zealand's Terminals give us a slice of the '60s the way it was lived on that distant island, and the way they're still living it today—no trendy modern toys here. Like a less-polished Chills, this quintet offers o basic organ or-namented lineup, with the sometimes odd, trembling vocals of Steven Cagle (a slightly more stable, deeper piped Tiny Tim of the South Pacific?) giving voice to the melodious din. It's the ¡aunty harmonic interplay that commands the attention though, carrying the tunes above the standard guitar wash with a choral rush that possesses an offbeat brand of pop dignity. Recorded with the band's original lineup, the frenzy of Un-coffined, their debut LP, finds its heart in being honestly retro—the songs carry on a tradition instead of ¡ust going back and ripping one off. Open up "Love, Hate,

Revenge," a cover of the Avengers tune (a band from New Zealand in the '60s), "Frozen Car," "Before It Rains," "All Their Lies" and "Hungry Joe."

MAD PROFESSOR Psychedelic Dub (Ariwa, c/o RAS, P.O. Box 42517, Washington, DC, 200151301-588-9641)—Hear ye, hear ye, hear ye—hear the latest from that man across the water, the Mad Professor, a.k.a. Neil Fraser, a.k.a. one of the maddest madmen currently producing some of the most whacked-out dub reggae ever dubbed. Verily, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a VU meter than it is for simple mortal minds to understand the Mad Pro-fessor's methods and his psycho, diabolical production ways. On this aptly titled hallu-cinogenic smorgasbord, the 'Fess delves deep into the heart of the dub mystery, taking us on a heady, heavy psychedelic dub trip that boggles the mind in its internal spaci-ness and external outrageousness. It's a little like snorkeling through a reef with schools of luminescent fish swarming about you on all sides, as the Professor's different intriguing sounds and samples buzz and blip in and out of the mix. A master of the secrets of the master tape, the mighty 'Fessor knows when to be cool and clinical, and when to be steamy and tropical, blow-ing the lid off a brewing cauldron of swirl-ing dub. Sample the steamy brew of "Go

Deh Nelson, Go Deh," "In King David's Style," "Psychedelic Dub," the fluid "Don't Drink The Piss" and the ghosts in the machines of the inscrutable "Man From Senegal."

SKEPTICS Amalgam (Flying Nun, P.O. Box 677, Auckland, New Zealand1649-774-607)—The Skeptics' fourth record is an end-to-end unbroken spell of orchestrated melancholia. Under-stated by even NZ standards, about the only thing they have in common with the jingle-bells pop of more famous Flying Nun groups are those droll accents, everything else brushing up against melodic param-eters from a paranormal direction. The

Skeptics' ambience of opaque, Middle Earth miasma is derived from samples of strings, horns and unidentifiables all twisted from a "Tommorrow Never Knows" nightmare, droning through like muddy, subterranean rivers. Their music, a plaiting of those somber and distinctly unchiming samples with instruments that spurt out notes at in-tervals, is no less capable of inducing semi-hypnotic states than with a more traditional approach. Yet, with the fife-and-drum per-cussive march and nasal, coldly Eno-like vocals, Amalgam is far from the airborne swish of Straitjacket Fits or the lushness of the Verlaines; it's the kind of record that seeps into your bones like a cold fog.

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MANUFACTURE Voice Of World Control (Nettwerk, c/o I.R.S., 3939 Lankershim Blvd., Universal City, CA 91604)—If there was a Grammy given for the Best Pop Industrial Recording, then Manufacture's second LP would be a shoo-in. Ever since Pretty Hate Machine, the groups that make up the industrial genre have been striving to open up their sound from hateful, garbled crunchmusic to include more melodic, passionate and understandable strains. This Boston duo of Perry Geyer and Brian Bothwell has softened the edge without losing it by adding Gregg Hawkes (yes, the Cars keyboardist) to co-produce and Nigel Butler to sing on a few of the more techno-pop tunes ("Control Yourself" and "New Deci-sion"), yet the growling industrial attitude never flogs. "My Destiny" is an atmospheric piece that sounds like it's being beamed in from a space ship, and the final cut, "Emer-gency Broadcast," burns with the image of nuclear holocaust. Voice Of World Control might tend to lean into Depeche Mode territory a bit much for many purists, but the variety of textures and tones on the LP make it that much more palatable. Top Cuts: The aforementioned, "A Measured Response" and "Running Mad," which has a Far Eastern feel thanks to the added vocals of Bel Canto's Anneli Drecker.

BIG DISH Satellites (East West America, 75 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10019)—Lush and wistful, Big Dish's third album is a sweeping testimony to the talents of vocalist/song-writer/multi-instrumentalist Stephen Lindsay. Formed in Scotland in the early '80s, this quartet plays simple, romantic blues-in-fluenced pop along the lines of The Blue Nile and Paul Young, flowing with heart, soul and emotion. Lindsay's solemnly crafted tunes, with sympathetic production by Warne Livesey (Midnight Oil, The The) have an inspirational air that levitates like

the mist off the loch, floating at varying depths as they unknowingly consume you. The songs themselves have an abundance of imagery, telling melancholy stories of hardship and glimpses of a personal reality that touch a chord with everyday folk. Lindsay uses his artistic and poetic influ-ences to give his craft that much more sincerity, like a painter who uses broad strokes to map out the smooth scenario, and then skillfully adds in the details that give the big picture its focus. Take a big scoop out of "Miss America," "25 Years," "Big Town" and "Shipwrecked."

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MORRISSEY Kill Uncle (Sire, c/o Reprise, 3300 Warner Blvd., Bur-bank, CA 91505)—If you take in Kill Uncle alongside Morrissey's first two solo albums—Viva Hate and the Bona Drag comp.—you'll realize that his latest should have been his first. Musically, it is a signifi-cant departure from the Smiths, and could have made a bolder statement than his first solo venture. This is not to say that Morrissey doesn't sound like himself any-more; his trademark voice is still the most noticeable and pleasant (in a morose, self-pitying kind of way) instrument on the rec-ord. This album rambles through more styles than we're used to from Morrissey; a

bit of Far East spice and strings on "Asian Rut" and the perky shuffle of "King Leer" for example. The bulk of the songs are tenderly rendered, with restrained musician-ship and a '40s crooner-style from the front man—listen to "Sing Your Life" and "Mute Witness." His voice, drifting over songs like "Driving Your Girlfriend Home" and "The Harsh Truth Of The Camera Eye," mixed with his dolorous lyrics, lead you to believe he's just waiting for David Lynch to give him a cameo as a night club act in Blue Velvet 2. Highlights of the album include "Our Frank" and a taste of the hard edge on "Found, Found, Found."

VARIOUS ARTISTS Texas Funk (Rastaman Work Ethic, 2129 Lex-ington, Houston, TX 77098/713-529-0614)—They came from all over the Lone Star State, tumbleweeds blowing in their paths, Stetsons perched atop dread-locked heads, bass guitars and brass sec-tions in tow. They traversed infinite dirt roads, dodging armadillos and roadrunners in search of a unified destiny: Texas Funk. The sounds compiled here make up a fairly representative sample of the most active bands in the Houston, Austin, Dallas and Denton areas. The musical energy emanating from two generations of bands playing a mixture of funk/punk/soul and rap has melded them into a coalition of sorts, dedicated to wiping out the conservative socio-political constraints placed upon ar-tists struggling for creative freedom in the heart of the Bible Belt. Bands like the Big Boys, Bad Mutha Goose, Slackface, Ten Hands, Sprawl and the Daylights came first, drawing crowds with variations on the theme through punk and psychedelic routes. Second generation sprouts include Bouffant Jellyfish, BillyGoat, Joe Rockhead and animated psycho-rappers Retorted Elf. Many of their talents are displayed for all to hear on Texas Funk, thanks to a cohesive approach at verbalizing every-thing from inner-city oppression to the confines of clothing. Pass the tabasco for: Retarted Elf's "Thunder Pimp," Slackface's "Time," BillyGoat's "Leche," Joe Rockhead's "Red Zone," and Sprawl's "Shum."

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AL PERRY AND THE CATTLE Good 'N' Bitter (7" EP) (En, 418 Madison Ave., Albany, NY 122101518-432-0851)—Congrats to En l Records for having the smarts to add an Al Perry And Cattle single to their decidedly non-dicey roster of no-fi U.S. bilge. Perry & Swine have yet to propagate a single clunker in their all too rare and scattered recordings, this time taking the A into Screaming Trees-styled goo-goo muck that slinks and oozes like a snake in the mud. The B mines the more familiar corn-fed blare that AP&C have shat out so mightily the last few years. Mas, por favor.

CAVEDOGS Six Tender Moments (EP) (Capitol, 1750 N. Vine St., Hollywood, CA 90028)—Capitol has picked up this much-deserving band after the demise of Enigma and has released six more tasty morsels of prime Cavedog pop in celebration. Four of the six tracks were recorded last year in the studio, making them more current than the recordings on Joyrides For Shut-Ins. Leading off the

whole affair is a slightly different recording of "Tayter Country," produced by studio guru Ed Stasium (Ramones, Living Colour). Other highlights include "Heartland Jingo Polka," which sounds to us like an acoustic rendering of the Lennon-esque "Proud-land" from the LP, an acoustic song called "Glass Eye" recorded live at KCRW and a cover of the Kinks' "I Need You" recorded live at WERS.

FATAL JELLY SPACE Hole (EP) (Fly-ing Nun, P.O. Box 677, Auckland, NI1649-774-607)—Hole is four songs, all extended, tribalistic polemics, dominated by Jacinda Klouwens' strident, albeit tune-ful, wail. Her lead hue and cry puts a harsher cast upon the more softly encroaching rhythms, which take their sweet time to mesh with Frankie Bodi's guitar into in-extricable brambles, part folky Throwing Muses, part fuzz jamboree. While the piano-led "Moonlit Track" reminds us of Mecca Normal's isolated fervor, it's "Miseriah" and "Death Fuck Pop" that are most distinctive for detailed, woozy spirals

of distorted strings, with banshee (Banshee) vocals keeping the band stiff and upright.

DEADBEATS I Burn (7" EP) (Vacant Lot/Tulpa, P.O. Box 860, Williman-tic, CT 062661203-456-2301)—After three years of perfecting their no-fi vision, the Deadbeats first actual record captures summery, naif Bus Stop labelesque melodies and underfoot guitar plinking with the exact same fidelity one would get walking past a house with a band rehearsing in its basement.

W OODCHIPPER Bricklayer (7" EP) (Vacant LotITulpa, P.O. Box 860, Willimantic, CT 062261203-456-2301)—A big fat toga party of early-'60s shimmy, sort of a slower, thuggish Girl Trouble. Kevin Kraynick's vocals are deep, menacing and Tad-like, as the band thumps through two Sonics-style roof-raisers (title track and "She Got Elected") and, to cover all bases, a tender ballad ("Laid").

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THUMPER Thumper (c/o Tucher Bros. Mgmt., Sta. A, P.O. Box 2745, Champaign, IL 61825)—This is indie scratch n' rasp in a whole new shade of

JACKPOT! plaid. Upholding all of what's been held dear to a Midwest-spawned scene (in-cluding Albini production), Thumper has more than their share of smarts when it comes to writing non-derivative songs and playing the same old fuzzy rock with chal-lenging fills. The vocalist brays and wheezes as though his jaw were unhinged, a little like that Squirrel Bait guy but meaner, and the musical mess emulates the Bitch Magnet guitar morass not a little bit; there's also some truncated Das Damen evident in the band's inability to let a simple chord pro-gression lie, screwing with time changes and rhythms the way a kid would punch buttons on a blender. Thumper's studio side portrays some monstrously metallic bass/ drum maneuvers ("Angel On The Road" especially) and the live songs show them in even better circumstances, sharp and tight as bands who've spent many more years stuck in cross-country vans, with heart, soul, spit and shine.

F.Y.I. Well, gosh and double golly, if our big cold hearts didn't absolutely melt when we first heard this here demo tape from MICHELE ZABEL AND BACK TO ZERO. These three gals from Seago,

Texas, are completely capable of defrosting the iciest of personalities. Unlike other countryish, female ensembles of late, Zabel and company don't hide behind the cloak-ish mystique of an Indigo Girls or share

in Two Nice Girls' beer-swillin', rollicking (though obviously kinda sarcastic) goodtime sentiments—Zabel is a straight-up great vocalist and equally strong persona much like other countryish gals that have made memorable and relatively recent splashes, like Maria McKee or Kelly Willis. Write to manager Paul Lovett to hear it (6411 Oriole, Dallas, TX 75209/ 214-357-6580), but believe us when we say that songs like "That's Just Fine" and "If You Let Me" are the pick of the litter here at the Futures desk... Syracuse, NY's JAMIE NOTARTHOMAS' 12-song LP (P.O. Box 322, Eastwood Station, Syracuse, NY 13206) highlights his impressive kinda-folky singing and songwriting amid considerably inferior production and musical backing (ex-cept for two newer cuts featuring members of 10,000 Maniacs). While his lyrics can be equally profound and ridiculous, five of his songs here shine—and the ¡okey "Pay Your Tax" is a potential country novelty hit vaguely along the lines of "Take This Job And Shove It" that could possibly typecast him in the wrong direction. Written before the Gulf War, the song is oddly timely: "For tens of centuries man has known it takes sacrifice to gain/The Mayans gave their lives so that the gods would give them rain/Thousands of humans sacrificed so the rest of us won't go poor/It's true, 'The economy is best when the country is at war."

—D.I.Y.

C MJ

NE W MUSIC REPORT 10 MAR. 15,1991 ©1991

ALWAYS LISTEN TO THE VOICE OF

EXPERIENCE.

Well, maybe not always In 1988, we signed an exotic 19-year-old named Tanita Tikaram,

who just months earlier had made her London club debut. With

producers Rod Argent and Peter Van Hooke, Tanita created a

compilation of alluring melodies —some somber, some sprightly—

that quickly had The New York Times comparing her to Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen. By the spring of 1989, chis

mysteriously mature newcomer's debut album, ANCIENT HEART,

with its sultry smash, "Twist In My Sobriety," had sold millions worldwide. But if you absolutely insist on listening to the voice of

experience, let us suggest EVERYBODY'S ANGEL, the much-anticipated new release by Tanita Tikaram, who, at a ripe 21 years,

has finally come of age.

Tanita Tikaram "Only The Ones We Love"

The New Single

Produced by Tunica Tikaram, Peter Van Hooke and Rod Argent

From Everybody's Angel

VH-1 HAS SELECTED TANITA TIKARAM AS

APRIL'S ARTIST OF THE MONTH. Watch for her. Look for Tanita Tikaram 't new home video Ancient Heart. Availabk Now wherever emetics and immix' tlito and video arc told.

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RASPBERRIES Capitol Collectors Series (Capitol, 1750 N. Vine, Hollywood, CA 90028)—Like contem-poraries Big Star and Badfinger, Cleveland's Raspberries were a brilliant Beatlesy guitar-pop band at a time when Yes and Grand Funk Railroad were the hot-selling rock acts. Their chilling hooks, soaring harmonies and matching suits put them in the right place at the worst possible time, but they made some of the greatest pop of the era, and their influence was to arise less than five years later in the power-pop "under-ground" that flourished in the late '70s and has now found a home with Jellyfish, Posies and Material Issue. Although the band featured no less than three singer/ songwriters, Eric Carmen wrote their few hits—his high voice and self-pitying lyrics masked the acute pop sensibility that made "I Wanna Be With You," "Let's Pretend," the scorching "Tonight" and especially "Go All The Way" (their first and biggest hit) near-perfect pop singles, all filtered through Jimmy lenner's ultra-car-radio-friendly production. But the band soon found itself in danger of being crushed by the wimp factor, and they responded by releasing their best album, the hard-rocking Side 3—which flopped to the mystification of all. Incidentally, Todd Rundgren saw the Raspberries performing Little Eva's "The Loco-Motion" at that time, and within weeks had made their arrangement of the song a #1 hit for Grand Funk. Had the Raspberries recorded the song, it might've saved their career. With an altered lineup, the band recorded one more album—which included yet another Carmen should-have-been-hit, "Overnite Sensation"—before calling it a day; Carmen pursued a briefly successful solo career, the rest dropped into near-obscurity. At any rate, 20 years after the fact, this fab-as-fuck compilation-77 minutes, 20 songs (plus two old radio ads as bonus tracks) and a 16-page booklet with exhaustive liner notes and loads of hilarious period shots—finally does the band ¡ustice. Also pluck the lilting "If You Change Your Mind," the Beach Boys spoof "Drivin' Around," "I'm A Rocker," "Ecstasy," "Don't Want To Say Goodbye" (Beatles-meet-Bee Gees), and (for humor value on-ly) "I Saw The Light" and "I Reach For The Light."

BARRY & THE REMAINS The Remains (Legacy, c/o Epic, P.O. Box 4450, New York, NY 10101-4450)—While lucky owners of the seminal '60s-punk comp Nuggets might know of Boston's Remains from their pulverizing contribution, "Don't Look Back," and maybe Beatlemaniacs recognize the name as the band that opened for the Fab Four in 1966, populus generalus sadly knows zilch of one of America's swankest garage bands. Save for a couple of expensive French imports, there've been no available recorded artifacts of the

Remains' briefly (and barely) shooting star. Fortunately, the wrong has been righted by the band's original label, Epic, and this 21-track disc should land the band their proper due. Perhaps only Paul Revere And The Raiders' 60s output can match up against the Remains' combination of snap, crackle and pop, spry British Invasion melodies matched with the crunch of prime six-oh American snarl, and capped by the soulful, Jaggeresque wail of lead singer Barry Tashian. The Remains didn't know the meaning of the word filler; every song they recorded in their shortlived career was con-cise, powerful and should/could have been a hit. Amazingly, the exact opposite proved true, and the band never once hit chart paydirt; "if they didn't have bad luck they wouldn't have any luck at all" could've been their epitaph (their shuffling version of "Diddy Wah Diddy," for instance; collided with Capt. Beefheart's). Choice Remains: "Why Do I Cry," "Lonely Weekend," "Heart," "You Got A Hard Time Comin" and "Don't Look Back."

RED FOLEY/LORETTA LYNN/BILL MONROEIERNEST TUBBIKITTY WELLS Country Music Hall Of Fame Series (MCA, 70 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, CA 91608)— In cooperation with the highly esteemed Country Music Foundation, MCA has laun-ched the first five volumes of its Country Music Hall Of Fame series, an eventual 11-volume set that will see future collections from the Carter Family, Sons Of The Pioneers, Jimmie Davis, Floyd Tillman, Tex Ritter and a multi-artist compilation. The opening sets span the course of country music's rich and varied past, from the 1940s to the modern era: Bill Monroe is the living embodiment of bluegrass, both its creator and still one of its strongest pro-ponents, and from "Blue Moon Of Ken-tucky" to "New Mule Skinner Blues," his purity and heart have won him a place in popular music history. Kitty Wells was coun-try music's first great female superstar, and the proof's here for the taking, her unadorned, quivering voice still as affecting as it was back in 1952, the year "It Wasn't God Who Made Hanky Tank Angels" was released. Ernest Tubb could barely carry a tune and had no vocal range, yet he looms large as one of country music's most endearing and enduring legends, his down-home warmth and everyman charm coupl-ed with brilliant musical instincts and a first-rate band (also see Rhino's live 1965 disc). Loretta Lynn's personal life and career has

Column coordinated by Craig Marks

been exhaustively chronicled (Coal Miner's Daughter), but her fiercely independent music less so; she forever changed the role of women in country music with hits like "Don't Come Home A-Drinkin'," "You Ain't Woman Enough" and, later on, "The Pill." Finally, Red Foley, best known as the composer of the hit "Old Shep" (the one about the dog), was a wildly popular per-fomer for over 20 years, and helped bring country music to television with Jubilee U.S.A. The recordings have been carefully restored without being stripped of their original intent, and the liner notes and cover art further add to the superb package.

GRAND FUNK RAILROAD Capitol Collectors Series (Captol, 1750 N. Vine St., Hollywood, CA 90028)— Grand Funk's sweaty, bluesy, music-for-the-masses approach apparently hit the right nerve at the right time with the earthy, great unwashed open-air rockfest crowd at the turn of the '70s—by the time they recorded their third album in early '71, they were already millionaires. These were the '70s, after all, and extended ¡ams like "Inside Looking Out," "Heartbreaker" or "Closer To Home" date the music almost as much as Mark Farner's goatee, but hey, Grand Funk was just about the biggest and baddest, so get with it. It's kinda neat to watch the disc unfold and see how the band managed to squeeze lots of their ear-ly freeform blowing and jamming into shorter, more single-ready time constraints— "Footstompin' Music" has a screaming guitar solo, an organ solo, a 10-second drum solo and a catchy chorus, all clocking in under four minutes! However, the Funk never managed to successfully sustain suc-cess, and by the end of the decade, it was over—the group had split up and Farner was running an "alternative energy store" with his wife in upstate Michigan. But after an unparalleled string of 10 consecutive gold albums (for perspective's sake, that's as many as Zeppelin), face it, man, Grand Funk was hot, hotter than Blood, Sweat And Tears, BTO or any other similarly named, nostalgically embarassing bands of the decade. Remember, they're coming to your town, they'll help you party down...

MAHLATHINI & THE MAHOTELLA QUEENS The Lion Roars/ MAHOTELLA QUEENS Marriage Is A Problem (Shanachie, 37 E. Clinton St., Newton, NJ 07860 201-579-7763)— All hail the mighty Mahlathini, the "Lion of Soweto," South African musician par ex-cellence, so far unsullied by Byrne, Simon or any other Westerning influences which might dilute his undeniable musical powers! Bow down to the wonderful Mahotella Queens, vocalists and dancers extraor-dinaire! As prime originators of the stutter-ing, popping, ¡ittery Afro-pop known as Mbaqanga, no one need ever doubt that Mahlathini and the Queens' work compiled here on these two discs is totally original and groundbreaking—there's even accor-dions in spots, and a feedback guitar part on one track! We'd love to tell you more, but as is sadly so often the case, Shanachie has provided virtually no information at all about the recordings on this disc in their liner notes and packaging, leaving a number of nagging questions to frustrate the otherwise spectacular listening experience.

Many of the releases reviewed in Flashback can be ordered through Midnight Rec-ords. For a free catalog, write to 255 W. 23rd it., New York, NY 10011 or phone 212-675-2768.

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Chart information is based on combined airplay of reporting commercial and college/non-commercial radio stations. Statistics ore compiled from point totals tabulated from positions (1-35) of artists on airplay reports, then multiplied by station code factor (based upon programming, market size and market impact). BOLD indicates a significant increase in airplay. #1-5: equal or upward position; #6-10: increase of at least 1; #11-20: increase of 2 or more; #21-30: 3 or more. . PEAK column represents highest chart position to date.

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RADIO 1 o TW LW 2W e ARTIST TITLE LABEL

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4 2 4 2

5 4 3 1

6 8 11 6

7 5 6 5

8 7 12 7

9 18 75 9

10 12 19 10

11 9 5 5

12 11 9 7

13 10 7 7

14 13 8 1

15 15 14 11

16 14 16 14

17 22 35 17

18 72 18

19 16 18 14

20 31 zo 21 17 10 3

22 28 54 22

23 24 34 23

24 19 17 12

25 20 15 6

26 33 72 26

27 23 22 2

28 38 65 28

29 21 20 2

30 91 30

31 25 26 25

32 30 42 30

33 35 28 28

34 56 34

35 39 37 35

36 29 23 5

37 26 24 1

38 27 21 8

39 34 29 17

40 58 137 40

41 43 36 36

42 73 42

43 43

44 36 27 25

45 47 51 45

46 32 33 7

47 47 48 40 30 30

49 37 25 7

50 46 44 44

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52 55 45 12

53 54 114 53 54 57 43 43

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57 128 57

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62 51 41 36

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67 42 47 13

68 87 68 69 90 143 69

70 52 39 3

71 74 68 14

72 86 88 1

73 60 53 4

74 94 74

75 98 75

JESUS JONES

SCREAMING TREES

KITCHENS OF DISTINCTION

DANIEL ASH

POP WILL EAT ITSELF

ELEVENTH DREAM DAY

FRONT 242

MATERIAL ISSUE

DINOSAUR JR.

DIVINYLS

TRASH CAN SINATRAS

STING

HOLLOW MEN

CHARLATANS UK

DRIVIN' N' CRYIN'

DARKS IDE

BONG WATER

R.E.M.

CHICKASAW MUDO PUPPIES

BUTTHOLE SURFERS

HAPPY MONDAYS

JESUS LIZARD

ENIGMA

RIDE

MEAT BEAT MANIFESTO

LEMONHEADS

SISTERS OF MERCY

HAVANA 3 A.M.

LUSH

GODFATHERS

BLUE RODEO

JUDYBATS

BOOK OF LOVE

NOVA MOB

CHAGALL GUEVARA

REPLACEMENTS

JANE'S ADDICTION

KMFDM

THE HIGH

THROWING MUSES

CHILDREN

360'S

THE FIXX

THEY EAT THEIR OWN

GRAHAM PARKER

NINE INCH NAILS

JELLO BIAFRA WITH NOMEANSNO

NAKED CITY

BUFFALO TOM

MOUTH MUSIC

DARLING BUDS

BUCK PETS

TWO NICE GIRLS

GODFLESH

VARIOUS ARTISTS

INSPIRAL CARPETS

TAD

SOUP DRAGONS

JOHN WESLEY HARDING

VARIOUS ARTISTS

LIVING COLOUR

ROGER MoGUINN

SPOONER

SAMPLES

WEEN

CONNELLS

BLAKE BABIES

SILVERFISH

ROYAL CRESCENT MOB

POGUES

INXS

SONIC YOUTH

SOUL ASYLUM

HORSE FLIES

COIL

Doubt

Uncle Anesthesia

Strange Free World

Coming Down

Cure For Sanity

Lived To Tell

Tyranny For You

International Pop Overthrow

Green Mind

DivInyls

Cake

The Soul Cages

Cresta

Some Friendly

Fly Me Courageous

All That Noise

The Power Of Pussy

"Losing My Religion" (5")

8 Track Stomp

Plouhgd

Pills 'N' Thrills And Bellyaches

Goat

MCMXC a.D.

Nowhere

99%

Favorite Spanish Dishes (EP)

Vision Thing

Havana 3 A.M.

Gala

Unreal World

Casino

Native Son

Candy Carol

The Last Days Of Pompeii

Chapati Guevara

All Shook Down/Don't Sell Or Buy (EP)

Ritual De Lo Habitual

Naive

Somewhere Soon

"Counting Backwards" (5")

Every Single Day

Illuminated

Ink

They Eat Their Own

Struck By Lightning

Pretty Hate Machine/"Sin" (5")

The Sky Is Falling And I Want My Mommy

Torture Garden

Birdbrain

Mouth Music

Crawdaddy

Mercurotones

Chloe Liked Olivia

Street Cleaner

Rutles Highway Revisited

Life

8-Way Santa

Lovegod

The Name Above The Title

Heaven & Hell

Time's Up

Back From Rio

The Fugitive Dance

Samples

God Ween Satan-The Oneness

One Simple Word

Sunburn

Fat Axl

Midnight Ross's

Hell's Ditch

X

Goo

Soul Asylum And The Horse They...

Gravity Dance

"Windowpane" (12")

Food-SBK

Epic

MM

Beggars Banquet-RCA

RCA

Atlantic

Epic

Mercury

Sire-WB

Virgin

Go!Discs/London-PLG

A&M

Arista

Beggars Banquet-RCA

Island

Beggars Banquet-RCA

Shimmy-Disc

Warner Bros.

Wing-Mercury

Rough Trade

Elektra

Touch And Go

Charisma

Sire-Reprise

Mute-Elektra

Atlantic

Elektra

I.R.S.

4AD-Reprise

Epic

East West America

Sire-WB .

Sire-WB

Rough Trade

MCA

Sire-Reprise

Warner Bros.

Wax Trax

London-PLG

Sire-V/B

Sky

Link-Hollywood

Impact-MCA

Relativity

RCA

TVT

Aitemative Tentacles

Shimmy-Disc

Beggars Banquet-RCA

Rykodisc

Columbia

Island

Rough Trade

Earache-Combat

Shimmy-Disc

Mute-Elektra

Sub Pop

Big Life-PLG

Sire-Reprise

Communion-Skyclad

Epic

Arista

Dali-Chameleon

Arista

Twin\Tone

TVT

Mammoth

Touch And Go

Sire-WB

Island

Atlantic

DGC

A&M

MCA

Wax Trax

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BREIKTIMOUGIIS Greatest Upward Chart Movement

Ink.

THE FIXX Ink (Impact-MCA) Inka-dinka-doo. Surprising old fans and new, and perhaps themselves, the revamped Fixx creeps elegantly up the charts with an album chock full o' singles. Powerful pop pieces like "How Much Is Enough?" and sweet ballads like "No One Has To Cry" are clearing the way for the comeback trail.

1. THE FIXX 2. JELLO BIAFRA WITH NOMEANSNO 3. FEELIES 4. TAD 5. BEAT HAPPENING 6. FRAZIER CHORUS 7. JACK FROST 8. GODFATHERS 9. TRAGICALLY HIP 10. HYPNOLOVEWHEEL 11. R.E.M. 12. SHONEN KNIFE 13. BUTTSTEAK 14. JELLO BIAFRA 15. MORRISSEY 16. BOILED IN LEAD 17. DIDJITS 18. JONI MITCHELL 19. 360's 20. ALBERT COLLINS

pluTuu Reporters' Personal Choices For Best New Releases

1, FEELIES Time For A Witness (A&M) 2. JACK FROST Jack Frost (Arista) 3. HYPNOLOVEWHEEL Space Mountain (Alias) 4. DINOSAUR JR. Green Mind (Sire-WB) 5. KITCHENS OF DISTINCTION Strange Free

World (A&M) 6. BEAT HAPPENING Dreamy (Sub Pop) 7. GODFATHERS Unreal World (Epic) 8. FRAZIER CHORUS Ray (Charisma) 9. TAD 8-Way Santa (Sub Pop) 10. MOTORHEAD 1916 (Epic) 11. JELLO BIAFRA WITH NOMEANSNO The Sky Is

Falling And I Want My Mommy (Alternative Tentacles)

12. THROWING MUSES "Counting Backwards" (5") (Sire-WB)

13. MORRISSEY Kill Uncle (Sire-Reprise) 14. SPACEMEN 3 "Big City" (5") (Dedicated-RCA) 15. BUTTHOLE SURFERS Plouhgd (Rough Trade) 16. JOHN WESLEY HARDING The Name Above

The Title (Sire-Rephse) 17. HORSE FLIES Gravity Dance (MCA) 18. MANUFACTURE Voice Of World Control

(Nettwerk-I.R.S.) 19. URBAN EDGE Songs From The Hydrogen

Jukebox (Gravity) 20. BUTTSTEAK Fattys Got More Blood (Merkin)

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IMPORTS Top Import Releases

1. WEDDING PRESENT "Corduroy" (12") (RCA (UK))

2. LUNACHICKS Babysitters On Acid (Blast First (UK))

3. FOURWAYCROSS On The Other Hand (Fun-damental (UK))

4. DREAM WARRIORS And Now The Legacy Begins (4th & Broadway-Island (UK))

5. MY BLOODY VALENTINE Tremelo (EP) (Crea-tion (UK))

6. CHARLOTTES "Liar" (12") (Cherry Red (UK)) 7. NORTHSIDE "Shall We Take A Trip" (12")

(Factory (UK)) 8. PALE SAINTS Half-Life (EP) (4AD (UK)) 9. AFRICAN HEAD CHARGE Volume 2 (On-U-

Sound (UK)) 10. SWERVEDRIVER Rave Down (EP) (Creation

(UK)) 11. HEAVENLY "Our Love Is Heavenly" (7")

(Sarah (UK)) 12. NED'S ATOMIC DUSTBIN "Until We Find

Out" (12") (Chapterhouse (UK)) 13. CHEMISTRY SET Wake Up Sometime!

(Romilar-D (Spain)) 14. CARTER THE UNSTOPPABLE SEX MACHINE

30 Something (Rough Trade (UK)) 15. POWER OF DREAMS "Never Been To Texas"

(12") (Polydor (UK)) 16. TELESCOPES "Everso" (12") (Creation (UK)) 17. SHAMEN En-Tact (One Little Indian (UK)) 18. JOHN ZORN Cynical Hysteric Hour (Sony

(Japan)) 19. BATS "Smoking Her Wings" (7") (Flying Nun

(NZ)) 20. TERRY ODETTE Without Wings (Wart

(Canada))

AUDIENCE R ES P O NSE Most Requested New Releases

1. JESUS JONES 2, DIVINYLS 3. R.E.M. 4. POP WILL EAT ITSELF 5. DANIEL ASH 6. MATERIAL ISSUE 7. FRONT 242 8. ELEVENTH DREAM DAY 9. DINOSAUR JR. 10. ENIGMA 11. STING 12. KITCHENS OF DISTINCTION 13. CHARLATANS UK 14. DRIVIN' N' CRYIN' 15. BONGWATER 16. JANE'S ADDICTION 17. HOLLOW MEN 18. TRASH CAN SINATRAS 19. SCREAMING TREES 20. BUTTHOLE SURFERS

Chart information is based on combined airplay of reporting commercial and college/non-commercial radio stations. NJ RADIO Statistics are compiled from point totals tabulated from positions (1-35) of artists on airplay reports, then multiplied by station code factor (based upon programming, market size and market impact). BOLD indicates a significant increase in airplay. #1-5: equal or upward position; #6-10: increase .4 at least 1; #,J1-20: increase of 2 or more; #21-30: 3 or more... PEAK column represents highest chart positiontadate.

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78 65 57 3

79 62 67 25

80 71 48 15

81 81

82 67 73 67

83 69 61 18

84 89 58 13

85 85

86 61 59 33

87 87

88 78 70 70

89 93 116 89

90 100 94 90

91 83 80 80

92 97 86 33

93 84 71 28

94 76 56 18

95 95

96 96 97 97

98 75 62 6

99 70 60 15

100 100

101 82 81 73

102 149 102

103 81 76 2

104 77 69 61

105 125 105

106 106

107 107

108 115 107 15

109 96 74 52

110 110

111 79 77 40

112 102 96 96

113 101 133 101

114 99 84 60

115 92 83 59

116 133 141 116

117 107 103 103

118 118

119 85 78 35

120 95 100 28

121 88 79 62

122 104 95 95

123 120 127 120

124 124

125 125

126 109 111 109

127 132 127

128 128

129 112 112

130 130

131 108 124 9

132 132

133 133

134 147 131 18

135 136 146 122

136 129 132 59

137 137

138 121 140 121

139 119 85 65

140 103 125 51

141 118 119 109

142 131 97 25

143 130 90 69

144 123 91 91

145 124 89 17

146 113 102 102

147 147

148 - - 148

149 105 99 1

150 141 113 113

FEE LIES

VARIOUS ARTISTS

THE CURE

BEAUTIFUL SOUTH

YO LA TENGO

BEAT HAPPENING

BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS

EDIE BRICKELL & NEW BOHEMIANS

INDIGO GIRLS

FRAZIER CHORUS

GOO GOO DOLLS

JACK FROST

BITCH MAGNET

PERFECT DISASTER

EMF

AMBITIOUS LOVERS

CHRIS ISAAK

MISSION U.K.

ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN

TRAGICALLY HIP

HYPNOLOVEWHEEL

SHONEN KNIFE

REDO KROSS

DANIELLE DAX

BUTTSTEAK

WEDDING PRESENT

JELLO BIAFRA

COCTEAU TWINS

DREAM ACADEMY

BAD MUTHA GOOSE á THE BROTHERS...

MORRISSEY

BOILED IN LEAD JELLYFISH

BASTRO

DIDJITS

FRONT LINE ASSEMBLY

GIBSON BROS.

HALF JAPANESE

THE SPIN

PAIN TEENS

HUNGER

SPIN DOCTORS

JONI MITCHELL

KILLING JOKE

PAUL SIMON

VERLAINES

ROBERT FORSTER

LUNACHICKS

ALBERT COLLINS

CHRIS CONNELLY

NUMB

H.P. ZINKER

MOTORHEAD

LONDONBEAT

AZALIA SNAIL

PYLON

POETS

SKATENIGS

POSIES

BRAND NUBIAN

BLACK CROWES

ROLLING STONES

OUEENSRYCHE

ANASTASIA SCREAMED

URBAN DANCE SQUAD

TODD RUNDGREN

AN EMOTIONAL FISH

KING'S X

EPMD

NAKED RAYGUN

VARIOUS ARTISTS

LEAVING TRAINS

VARIOUS ARTISTS

PIXIES

SOME VELVET SIDEWALK

Time For A Witness

Red Hot + Blue

Mixed Up

Choke

Fakebook/Here Comes My Baby (EP)

Dreamy

Talkin' Blues

Ghost Of A Dog

Nomads Indians Saints

Ray

Hold Me Up

Jack Frost

Ben Hur

Heaven Scent

"Unbelievable" (12")

Lust

Heart Shaped World

Grains Of Sand

Reverberation

Road Apples

Space Mountain

Pretty Little Baka Guy

Third Eye

Blast The Human Flower

Fattys Got More Blood

"Corduroy" (12")

"Die For Oil, Sucker" (7")

Heaven Or Las Vegas

A Different Kind Of Weather

Be Somebody

Kill Uncle

Orb Bellybutton

Sing The Troubled Beast

Fuck The Pigs (7")

Caustic Grip

The Man Who Loved Couch Dancing

We Are They Who Ache With...

"Lonely Max" And Other Discourses...

Born In Blood

"Tonight" (12")

Up For Grabs...Live

Night Ride Home

Extremities, Dirt And Various Repressed

The Rhythm Of The Saints

Some Disenchanted Evening

Danger In The Past

Babysitters On Acid

Iceman

"Stowaway" (12")

Christmeister

Beyond It All

1916

In The Blood

Snailbait

Chain

"Subversive" (5")

"Chemical Imbalance" (5")

Dear 23

One For All

Present: Shake Your Money Maker

"HIghwire" (5")

Empire

Laughing Down The Limehouse

Mental Floss For The Globe/Live (EP)

2nd Wind

An Emotional Fish

Faith Hope Love By King's X

Business As Usual

Raygun...Naked Raygun

Manchester-So Much To Answer...

Sleeping Underwater Survivors

Tame Yourself

Bossanova

Appetite For Extinction

A&M

Chrysalis

Elektra

Go!Discs-Elektra

Bar/None

Sub Pop

Tuff Gong-Island

Geffen

Epic

Charisma

Metal Blade-WB

Arista

Communion-Skyclad

Fire

EMI

Elektra

Reprise

Mercury

Sire-WB

MCA

Allas

Gasatanka-Rockville

Atlantic

Sire-WB

Merkin

RCA (UK)

Alternative Tentacles

4AD-Capitol

Reprise

Alpha International

Sire-Reprise

Atomic Theory

Charisma

Homestead

Touch And Go

Wax Trax

Homestead

Psycho Acoustic Sounds-Ralph

Dragon Street

Trance Syndicate

Alpha International

Epic Associated

Geffen

Noise

Warner Bros.

Homestead

Beggars Banquet-RCA

Blast First (UK)

Point Blank-Charism?

Wax Trax

Oceana-Onslot

Fire

Epic

MCA

Albertine

Sky

RCA

Wax Trax

DGC

Elektra

Def American

Rolling Stones-Columbia

EMI

Roughneck-Fire

Arista

Warner Bros.

Atlantic

Megaforce-Atlantic

Del Jam/RAL-Columbia

Caroline

Strange Fruit-Dutch East India

SST

Rhino

4AD-Elektra

K/Communion-Skyclad

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TOP Compiled chart information based upon reported airplay cf most frequently played cuts

TW LW ARTIST TITLE LABEL 1 1

2 4

3 15

5 7

2

7 6

8 5 9 10

10 12

11 8

12 11

13 21

14 18

13

16 9

17 26

18

19 22

20 16

21 23

17

23 38

24 30

25 25

26

27

28

29

28

31 39

32 14

33 19

34

35 37

36

37

38 39 27

40 31

JESUS JONES

DIVINYLS

R.E.M.

MATERIAL ISSUE

KITCHENS OF DISTINCTION

DANIEL ASH

POP WILL EAT ITSELF

TRASH CAN SINATRAS

ENIGMA

ELEVENTH DREAM DAY

STING

SCREAMING TREES

DINOSAUR JR.

FRONT 242

HOLLOW MEN

DRIVIN N' CRYIN'

BOOK OF LOVE

JESUS JONES

CHAGALL GUEVARA

MEAT BEAT MANIFESTO

THEY EAT THEIR OWN

JANE'S ADDICTION

HAPPY MONDAYS

FRONT 242

CHARLATANS UK

GODFATHERS

RIDE

ROLLING STONES

NOVA MOB

LEMONHEADS

THROWING MUSES

CHICKASAW MUDO PUPPIES

HAPPY MONDAYS

KITCHENS OF DISTINCTION

HAVANA 3 A M

DANIEL ASH

DARKSIDE

OUEENSRYCHE

POP WILL EAT ITSELF

BLUE RODEO

Right Here, Right Now Food-SBK

I Touch Myself Virgin

Losing My Religion Warner Bros.

Valerie Loves Me Mercury

Drive That Fast MM

This Love Beggars Banquet-RCA

X Y & Zee RCA

Obscurity Knocks GolDiscs/London-PLG

Sadeness Part 1 Charisma

Rose Of Jericho Atlantic

All This Time A&M

Bed Of Roses Epic

The Wagon Sire-WB

Tragedy For You Epic

November Comes Arista

Fly Me Courageous Island

Alice Everyday Sire-WB

International Bright YoLng Thing Food-SBK

Violent Blue MCA

Psyche-Out Mute-Elektra

Like A Drug Relativity

Been Caught Stealing Warner Bros.

Loose Fit Elektra

Gripped By Fear Epic

Sproston Green Beggars Banquet-RCA

Unreal World Epic

Taste Sire-Reprise

Highwire Rolling Stones-Columbia

Admiral 01 The Sea Rough Trade

Different Drum Atlantic

Counting Backwards Sire-WB

Do You Remember Wing-Mercury

Kinky Afro Elektra

Quick As Rainbows A&M

Reach The Rock I.R.S.

Coming Down Fast Beggars Banquet-RCA

Waiting For The Angels Beggars Banquet-RCA

Silent Lucidity EMI

Dance Of The Mad RCA

Til I Am Myself Again East West America

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Right Here, Right Now

Breakthrougll JESUS JONES

International Bright Young Thing

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HITT E NUMBERS NIL.»

I= YEARS %•P A G O

1. VIOLENT FEMMES The Blind Leading The Naked (Slash-WB)

2. PUBLIC IMAGE LTD. Album (Elektra) 3. JESUS AND MARY CHAIN Psychocandy (Reprise-WB)

4. BANGLES Different Light (Columbia) 5. FINE YOUNG CANNIBALS Fine Young Cannibals (I.R.S.)

6. SOUNDTRACK Pretty In Pink (A&M) 7. LLOYD COLE AND THE COMMOTIONS Easy Pieces (Geffen)

8. THE CHURCH Heyday (Warner Bros) 9. THE CULT Love (Sire-WB)

10. STAN RIDGWAY The Big Heat (I.R.S.)

/ Vg J lOYEARS A G 0 1. THE CLASH Sandinista (Epic) 2. THE JAM Sound Effects (Polydor-PG) 3. ELVIS COSTELLO Trust (Columbia) 4. XTC Black Sea (Virigin) 5. ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN Crocodiles (Sire-WB)

6. THE TEADROP EXPLODES Kilimanjaro (Mercury-PG)

7. STEVE WINWOOD Arc Of A Diver (Island)

8. SHOES Tongue Twister (Elektra) 9. ADAM AND THE ANTS Kings Of The Wild Frontier (Epic)

10. TALKING HEADS Remain In Light (Sire-WB)

Jesus Jones

ARTIST TOP 150 CUTS #1s

JESUS JONES 1-1 Right 1-1, Intl #18 #1 band named Jesus

SCREAMING TREES 3-2 Bed #12, Beyond next #1 band in poundage

KITCHENS OF DISTINCTION 6-3 Drive 7-5, Quick #34 #1 with Martin Aston

ELEVENTH DREAM DAY 8-6 Rose 12-10, I Could next #1 Neil Young fans

DINOSAUR JR. 18-9 Wagon 21-13, Puke next #1 Retail

DIVINYLS 12-10 Touch 4-2, Lay next #1 onanist

BONGWATER 22-17 Great bubbling #1 band with TV star

R.E.M. 72-18 Losing 15-3, Shiny next #1 in the bag

BUTTHOLE SURFERS 31-20 Revolution (1) bubbling #1 band from Texas, the "Lone Star State"

JESUS LIZARD 28-22 Rodeo bubbling #1 at Vinyl Ink in Silver Springs, MD

LEMONHEADS 33-26 Different #30, Step next #1 band with New Kids cover

HAVANA 3 A.M. 38-28 Reach #35, Death next #1 priority for the Gary Myrick

GODFATHERS 91-30 Unreal #26, Don't next #1 album with Creation cover

NOVA MOB 56-34 Admiral #29, Last next #1 tribute to Pliny the Younger

CHAGALL GUEVARA 39-35 Violent 22-19, Play next #1 MCA charting

THROWING MUSES 58-40 Counting 39-31 #1 band with in-law of Andy Skibins

360'S 73-42 Illuminated bubbling #1 release for Link-Hollywood

THE FIXX #43 debut All bubbling #1 Radio Breakthrough

JELLO BIAFRA WITH NOMEANSNO #47 debut Jesus bubbling #1 on KUPS icna Tpiatcaol mis aO, lWymapsihaington, whose

TAD 128-57 Jinx bubbling #1 hog butcher on chart

A look at the top 20 bolded releases in the Top 150

Screaming Trees Kitchens Of Distinction

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Stetsasonic: The hip-hop band deserves another chance

Hypnolovewheel: Praying for Top 20

Mother Jones: For the fourth week in a row, the mother of all records is Jesus Jones, and it ain't going away too soon, if its huge lead is any indication. Also in J.J.'s favor is the strong follow-up single, "International Bright Young Thing," which debuts at #18 for the Breakthrough Cut and has huge crossover potential. Meanwhile, the Screaming Trees, after dropping 2-3, go back up 3-2, while nabbing a #1 in the West. The Trees hold a slim lead over the hard-charging Kitchens Of Distinction (6-3), which leads with strength in the East (#2) and has only been on the chart for three weeks. In contrast to the quick success of the Kitchens is Eleventh Dream Day, which has slowly but surely gained, this week inching up 8-6 with a #2 in the South regional.

Green Sees Green: Joining the Top 10 this week are Sire-WB's Dinosaur Jr. (18-9) and Virgin's Divinyls (12-10). Both projects are seeing amazing sales: Dino has stung Sting and grabbed the #1 Retail slot, while the Divinyls have reportedly sold upwards of 250,000 copies. Knocking on the Top 10's door are Shimmy-Disc's Bong-water (22-17), the R.E.M. single (72-18; the LP will definitely do the trick) and Rough Trade's Butthole Surfers (31-20). We apologize for spelling the LP title incorrectly—Pioughd—instead of the obvious Piouhgd. For further elaboration, please call Jerry Rubinhgo.

Why Ask Why?: We here at CMJ are certainly pleased at the success of artists like Tad (128-57), the Feelies (#76 debut), Hypnolovewheel (#96 debut) and Shonen Knife (#97 debut), but we're more than a little perturbed at the lack of success of the following deserving artists: Robert Forster (104-122), H.P. Zinker (132-127), Brand Nubian (136-135; #122 peak) and Stetsasonic (140-off). We've all heard the tired list of excuses—how 'bout giving something even slightly aifferent a chance?

CH ART On that note, it's great to see Ithaca, NY's Horse Flies doing relatively well. On their second LP on MCA, Gravity Dance, the band combines weird images with simple melodies that sometimes border on Supertramp ter-ritory (but don't let that scare you off!). While MCA's re-issue of their first LP never made the Top 150, the fol-low-up moves 94-74 with 57

FOCUS stations—that's over one-fourth—reporting it in their Top 35. Out of that 57, it's strange that only four stations are in the South, what with the folksy, violin-driven tunes that the Flies weave so well. For those who haven't given the band a proper listen, check out "Sally Ann," "Roadkill" and "Needles On The Beach."

Tad: Bigger than life

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PROGRESSIVE RETAIL Chart compi e y ly la An•erson

ON THE CHART After a five-week reign at the top, Sting (1-4) has finally been knocked down to size by the Green Mind of Dinosaur Jr. (2-1), who also retains the #1 In-Store honors. Charisma's Enigma, who debuts In-Store at #7, moves up 5-2, and Food-SBK's Jesus Jones holds steady at #3. Rough Trade's Butthole Surfers jumps up 10-6 and 9-2 at In-Store, with the remaining records in the top 10 shuffling around. A loud wail was heard from Morrissey this week, as Kill Uncle debuts at #15 hot on the heels of its release. The King Of Misery will pro-bably challenge J. & Co. for the top spot. Move-ment upward this week from 4AD-Reprise's Lush (14-12), who're about to hit the road with Ride (15-14), and Sub Pop's Tad, who is clambering up the chart 36-18. Also on the move are Shim-my's Bongwater (21-16), Touch And Go's Jesus Lizard (27-24), A&M's Kitchens Of Distinction (33-28), Creation's import My Bloody Valentine EP (44-35), Boner's Melvins (45-37) and Beggars-RCA's Buffalo Tom (55-40). Lots of new entries to watch out for this week. Mercury's Material Issue begins their overthrow at #46, Epic's new Motorhead LP (#1 at Rockit and Venus) charges in at #52, and MCA's Lon-donbeat debuts at #63. Two from Arista this week too: Jack Frost, a collaboration between ex-Go-Between Grant McLennan and the Church's Steve Kilbey, at #59; and the Hollow Men, who have graced the radio charts for a while now, at #64. Next week should see the debut of the Feelies'

fabulous new record, Time For A Witness, on A&M, which was bubbling under the In-Store chart this week.

TOP 10 IN S T QF E A I Ft

1, DINOSAUR JR.

2. BUTTHOLE SURFERS

3. JESUS JONES

4. SCREAMING TREES

5. KITCHENS OF DISTINCTION 6. RIDE

7. ENIGMA

8. DARKSIDE

9. TAD

10. DANIEL ASH

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75

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21 19 36 11 20 16 23 18 27 23 26 28 33 17 31 25 29 32 39 44 43 45 34 22 55 35 53 43 42 30

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57 46 70

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ARTIST DINOSAUR JR. ENIGMA JESUS JONES STING CHRIS ISAAK BUTTHOLE SURFERS FRONT 242 JANE'S ADDICTION DANIEL ASH CHARLATANS UK DIVINYLS LUSH HAPPY MONDAYS RIDE MORRISSEY BONGWATER DRIVIN' N' CRYIN' TAD SCREAMING TREES POP WILL EAT ITSELF BLACK CROWES GRAHAM PARKER MEAT BEAT MANIFESTO JESUS LIZARD SISTERS OF MERCY JELLO BIAFRA WITH NOMEANSNO VARIOUS ARTISTS KITCHENS OF DISTINCTION PAUL SIMON • ROGER MCGUINN BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS C & C MUSIC FACTORY NINE INCH NAILS REPLACEMENTS MY BLOODY VALENTINE JOHN WESLEY HARDING MELVINS JELLO BIAFRA PETER GABRIEL BUFFALO TOM DARKSIDE VAN MORRISON ELEVENTH DREAM DAY DIGITAL UNDERGROUND URBAN DANCE SQUAD MATERIAL ISSUE NOVA MOB BLUES TRAVELER KMFDM FRONT LINE ASSEMBLY ROYAL CRESCENT MOB MOTORHEAD TRASH CAN SINATRAS CHICKASAW MUDD PUPPIES EMF MARIAN CAREY SOUP DRAGONS DEEE-LITE JACK FROST GOO GOO DOLLS COCTEAU TWINS INSPIRAI CARPETS LONDONBEAT HOLLOW MEN LIVING COLOUR TESLA POGUES THEY EAT THEIR OWN SONIC YOUTH MADONNA OUEENSRYCHE NAKED CITY INDIGO GIRLS ROBERT JOHNSON GREAT WHITE

TITLE Green Mind MCMXC a.D. Doubt The Soul Cages Heart Shaped World Piouhgd Tyranny For You Ritual De Lo Habitual Coming Down Some Friendly Divinyls Gala Pills 'N' Thrills And Bellyaches Nowhere Kill Uncle The Power Of Pussy Fly Me Courageous 8-Way Santa Uncle Anesthesia Cure For Sanity Present: Shake Your Money Maker Struck By Lightning 99, Goat Vision Thing The Sky Is Falling... Red Hot + Blue Strange Free World The Rhythm Of The Saints Back From Rio Talkin' Blues Gonna Make You Sweat Pretty Hate Machine All Shook Down Tremolo (EP) The Name Above The Title Bull Head "Die For Oil, Sucker" (7") Shaking The Tree... Birdbrain All That Noise Enlightenment Lived To Tell This Is An EP Release (EP) Mental Floss For The Globe International Pop Overthrow The Last Days Of Pompeii Blues Traveler Naive Caustic Grip Midnight Rose's 1916 Cake 8 Track Stomp "Unbelievable" (12") Mariah Carey Lovegod World Clique Jack Frost Hold Me Up Heaven Or Las Vegas Life In The Blood Cresta Time's Up Five Man Acoustical Jam Hell's Ditch They Eat Their Own Goo The Immaculate Collection Empire Torture Garden Nomads Indians Saints Complete Recordings Hooked

LABEL Si re-WB Charisma Food-SBK A&M Reprise Rough Trade Epic Warner Bros. Beggars Banquet-RCA Beggars Banquet-RCA Virgin 4AD-Reprise Elektra Sire-Reprise Sire-Reprise Shimmy-Disc Island Sub Pop Epic RCA Def American RCA Mute-Elektra Touch And Go Elektra Alternative Tentacles Chrysalis A&M Warner Bros. Arista Tuff Gong-Island Columbia TVT Sire-Reprise Creation (UK) Sire-Reprise Boner Alternative Tentacles Geffen Beggars Banquet-RCA Beggars Banquet-RCA Mercury Atlantic Tommy Boy Arista Mercury Rough Trade A&M Wax Trax Wax Trax Sire-WB Epic Go!Discs/London-PLG Wing-Mercury EMI Columbia Big Life-PLG Elektra Arista Metal Blade-WB 4AD-Capitol Mute-Elektra MCA Arista Epic Geffen Island Relativity DGC Sire-WB EMI Shimmy-Disc Epic Columbia Capitol

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ORIZONS iliCKPOT!

MOVIE STARS Head On A Platter (Whirlaway, 2261 Market St., San Francisco, CA 94114/415-553-4131)—Categorizing the Movie Stars' music is a lot harder than listening to their effervescent second release, Head On A Plotter. Presenting an amalgam of various American styles—Tex-Mex, blue-grass, country, norteno, polka, twangy folk-rock and even a surf instrumental—with startling ease, they captivate with a com-bination of smooth male/female harmonies and facile playing. There's more than a few bands covering this roots-rock territory these days (Blood Oranges, Poi Dog Pondering and Flophouse come to mind) but none perform with this much verve, throwing out pop ditties that will surely get you moving. The instrumental combination of pedal steel, accordion, guitar, mandolin and upright bass give each song the re-quired kick; add the bright vocals of bassist Jill Olson and songs like "Cancer Song," "She's Barking" and "I Fall To Pieces" become downright infectious. Just to prove their roots are in the right place, the Movie Stars serve up a rockin' take on Phil Ochs' "Chords Of Fame" and a loving, down-home version of the Louvin Brothers' "I Wish You Knew." Pure and simple, Head On A Platter proves that this is a band to watch—they play today's country music with remarkable spirit and vision.

MAURA O'CONNELL A Real Life Story (Warner Bros., 3300 Warner Blvd., Burbank, CA 91505)—Maura O'Connell proves it's not so far, really, from Ireland to Nashville. All it takes to bridge the gap is a beautiful voice and the intrinsic ability to select great songs from the cream of today's songwriters. Simple, right? A Real Life Story is her second release for Warner Bros. following two years as lead singer for traditional folkies De Danaan, during which she became a major star in Irish music. O'Connell ex-

plores a variety of moods from the flat-out rock of Greg Trooper's "Ireland" to the deeply felt love of Shawn Colvin's "I Don't Know Why" and makes a political state-ment by including the anthemic "Guns Of Love." The delicate production work of Greg Penny (k.d. long, Rickie Lee Jones) allows each song to breathe and grow, placing O'Connell's stunning vocal talent at the fore, where it shapes each melody with breathtaking beauty. Her takes on John Hiatt's sly and sweet "When We Ran" and Tom Waits' stark, moody "Broken Bicycles" are equally touching, showing Mauro O'Connell to be perhaps the premier songstress of our day.

NIKKI MEETS THE HIBACHI The Bluest Sky (Moist, P.O. Box 3597, Chapel Hill, NC 27515/919-929-2533)—This North Carolina duo follows last year's enigmatic Hanna's Amor-phous Hat with another set of tunes that recall windswept days at the beach or a shadowy night under the full moon. The Bluest Sky is a whirlpool of strummed guitars and the exquisite vocal combination of John Gillespie and Elaine Tola a.k.a. Nikki Meets The Hibachi. With occasional cello, piano, percussion and banjo added to the brew, they carry the listener into an atmospheric netherworld, at times psych-edelic, other times so down to earth you can almost smell the dirt beneath their feet. Comparisons to the more ethereal side of the Indigo Girls are not out of order, even if this is a male/female duo, while those who are familiar with Miracle Legion may see a likeness there as well. Nevertheless, the introspective lyrics and soaring nature of their harmonies are a marvel and the production is crisp and clean, perfect for NMTH's simple, stark tunes. Gaze into these: "A Million Times," "Love," "Days Like These" and the title track.

THE COUNTRY MUSIC HALL OF FAME SERIES MCA Records (70 Universal City Plazo, Universal City, CA 91608), in conjunction with the Country Music Foundation, has released the first five of the 11-disc Country Music Hall Of Fame Series, which covers the history of country music. From the 1940s, there's o disc devoted to honky-tonker ERNEST TUBB and one from vocalist RED FOLEY. The '50s are covered with the first great female country artist, KITTY WELLS, who helped open the way for the ground-breaking LORETTA LYNN, whose disc covers material from the '60s and '70s. There's also a 40-year retrospec-tive of bluegrass from the man credited with being the father of the genre, BILL MONROE. Despite the age of some the sides and the lack of masters in some cases, the overall sound is fine. The pops and clicks lend an air of historical authenticity and most of the performances shine through. Monroe's disc is a fascinating listen, plainly tracing the folk/gospel/blues roots of bluegrass and featuring such classics as "Uncle Pen," "Blue Moon Of Kentucky" and "Walk Softly On This Heart Of Mine." Lynn's set is sure to be a fav-orite with her fans as it contains most of her big hits like "Coal Miner's Daughter," "One's On The Way" and "Don't Come Home A Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind)," her first #1 hit. Each disc contains an extensive biography of the artist and full notes on the individual recordings which were originally released on the Decca or Coral labels. Any of these five would be

Column by Jim Coligiuri

a welcome addition to any country-music lover's collection. Look for the final six discs of the series to be released in the spring, featuring SONS OF THE PIONEERS, CARTER FAMILY, JIMMIE DAVIS, FLOYD TILLMAN, TEX RITTER and a multi-artist compilation.

BLUES PO WER The flow of first-rate new blues releases continues. Don't pass up the new one from ELVIN BISHOP, Don't Let The Bossman Get You Down (Alligator, P.O. Box 60234, Chicago, IL 60660/312-973-7736). Having his first taste of success with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band in the '60s, Bishop has been long considered to be a master blues guitarist. This is his second release for Alligator and it's filled with his loose, good-times style, as well as some tasty licks on the slide guitar and a bunch of juke-joint horns. Check out "Murder In The First Degree," "My Whiskey Headed Buddies" and the ex-tremely funky "You Got To Rock 'Em" for a bit of wide-eyed fun ...One of the young guns of the slide, JOE LOUIS WALKER, has been captured in all his glory on Live At Slim's Volume l(Hightone, 220 4th St. #101, Oakland, CA 94607/415-763-8500). Walker's music is full of soul and his guitar attacks are fierce single-note flurries that get the live audience cheering for more—there's a rockin' duet with Angela Strehli on "Don't Mess Up A Good Thing"; homeboy Huey Lewis sits in on harmonica on "Bit By Bit"; and he let's it all hang out on the blistering slow blues of "Don't Play Games." ...The core of the LEGENDARY BLUES BAND is the rhythm section of Willie "Big Eyes" Smith on drums and Calvin "Fuzz" Jones on bass. They re-corded and toured with Muddy Waters from the '50s to the early '80s, until Muddy's health forced him off the road and the band, along with Pinetop Perkins, went out on their own to keep the blues alive. Perkins left them awhile back but they continue mightily with a new incarnation on U B Da Judge, their third release for lchiban (P.O. Box 724677, Atlanta, GA 30339/ 404-926-3377). There's a traditional laid-back feel to the proceedings, with vocalist/ harpist Madison Slim blowing slow and mean, while Smith and Jones set a simmering, rock-solid pace. Get down and dirty with "Things Could Be Worse," "I Don't Trust You, Man" and "When The Blues Come Around."...Charisma (1790 Broadway, New York, NY 10019) has started Point Blank Records, a new blues-oriented label and their first releases are impressive. ALBERT COLLINS leads the pack with Iceman, a funky display of his distinctive guitar playing and gritty soul. He's joined by the Uptown Horns who real-ly fill out the sound, while "The Iceman" picks and riffs his way to blues heaven... Collins is one of those who've obviously influenced LARRY McCRAY as demon-strated on his Point Blank debut, Ambi-tion. McCray covers a lot of stylistic ground, from the straight-ahead rock of "Keep On Walking" to the steaming down-home flavored take on Otis Spann's "Coun-try Girl." But his vocals always have a soulful edge that keeps the material in the blues vein.

Horizons is a bi-weekly column focusing on music with roots in the traditional sounds of the American South and Southwest. Send music for review to Jim Caligiuri, do CMJ, 245 Great Neck Road, 3rd Floor, Great Neck, NY 11021.

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Capitol Def American Atlantic EMI Epic Columbia Big Chief-Metal Blade Megaforce-Atlantic Megaforce-Island Earache-Combat Earache-Combat Atco Columbia Third Stone-Atlantic Mercury Epic Earache-Combat Capitol Combat Noise-Epic Def American Geffen Warner Bros. Combat Megaforce-Atlantic Warner Bros. Epic Noise-RCA Roadracer Earache-Combat Earache-Combat Red Decibel Warner Bros. Roadracer Metal Blade-Caroline Century Media Polymer-PLO Mercury Torrid Sub Pop RC-Roadrunner Metal Blade DGC Elektra Atco Metal Blade-WB Hollywood RC-Roadracer Epic Hollywood Columbia Boner Maze MCA SBK Reprise Epic Noise-RCA Roadracer Death-Metal Blade Alternative Tentacles Touch And Go Chrysalis Warner Bros. In-Effect Metal Blade-WB Atlantic Epic RC-Roadracer Epic Earache (UK) Noise-RCA Mechanic-MCA Warner Bros. Enigma RC-Roadracer Fringe (Canada) Tung! Century Media MCA Sire-WB Charisma Slash-Reprise Epitaph Atco Grand Slamm A8M Polydor-PLG Caroline Sub Pop RC-Roadracer Touch And Go Alternative Tentacles Rough Trade Roadracer Noise-RCA RC-Roadracer Caroline Silent Scream Rock Hard

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COLLEGE

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AUDIENCE RESPONSE I

1. MEGADETH 2. SLAYER 3. TESTAMENT 4. QUEENSRYCHE 5. WRATHCHILD AMERICA 6. ANTHRAX 7. MOTORHEAD 8. SUICIDAL TENDENCIES 9. JUDAS PRIEST 10. AGONY COLUMN

RETAIL

1. OUEENSRYCHE 2. BLACK CROWES 3. MOTORHEAD 4. GREAT WHITE 5. SLAYER 6. MEGADETH 7. TESLA 8. JANE'S ADDICTION 9. AC/DC 10. DAVID LEE ROTH

ADVENTURE PICKS

1. MOTORHEAD 2. DARK ANGEL 3. CYCLONE TEMPLE 4. IGNORANCE 5. MIND FUNK 6. SAIGON KICK 7. MORDRED 8. WRATHCHILD AMERICA 9. HEATHEN 10. FEAR OF GOD

ON THE CHARTS

...And we hear a mighty CRASH as the ice begins to break! Megadeth retakes the Loud 100, College and Audience charts away from Slayer (who slips to #2), but