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SOUTHERN VOICE • DECEMBER 29/1994
SOUND ADVICE
MUSIC NOTES & REVIEWS
by LEE HUGHEY
1994's greatest hits
Soon 1994 will be just another
ring in the tree trunks, and except
for a few untimely deaths and the
release of that Mariah Carey
Christmas album, it's been a great
year for music.
Therapy?, "Troublegum"
(A&M)—The year's best, hands
down. Fast, pissed-off, surpris
ingly catchy songs with loads of
guitar crunch flow relentlessly into
one another. Scary and gorgeous at
the same time.
The London Suede, "Dog
Man Star" (Columbia/Nude)—
They've made androgyny (Bowie-
style, not Boy George-style) cool
again in the U.K., but Americans
are foolishly still ignoring them.
"Dog Man Star" is about love dur
ing apocalypse, and hope during
meltdown. Seedy, glamorous, arro
gant and fragile, London Suede
deserve your immediate attention.
Hole, "Live Through This"
(DGC)—Courtney Love rages one
moment, makes you feel her heart
break the next. Love can't decide
whether she's a hurt little girl or a
dragon lady, and hopefully she
never will.
Julian Cope, "Auto-
geddon" (American Record
ings)—Cope has been everything
from a Liverpool punk to Britain's
reigning musical mystic, and the
trip's still not over. This album
about spiritual road trips tells me
that Julian has driven down that
road to nowhere many times.
Beastie Boys, "Ill Commu
nication" (Capitol/Grand
Royal)—The snot-nosed brats' best
album yet. The Beasties make
home-brew out of every musical
element they've ever touched—
rap, funk, jazz, hardcore punk—
then flavor it with guitar noises
ripped off from bad pomo flicks to
produce an annoyingly great al
bum.
Smoke, "Heaven on a
Popsicle Stick" (Long Play)—
Atlanta's own Smoke create music
as ethereal as their name, and as
gritty. Benjamin, the skinny gay
dude with the voice like a car
crusher, sings melancholy hymns
to loves known and never known.
Man...or Astroman?,
"Destroy All Astromen!!" (Es-
trus)—What's not to love about
this album? Almost two dozen
spacy, psychedelia-tinged surf
instrumentals by a band from Au
burn. There's even a surf-styled
remake of the theme from "Mys
tery Science Theater 3000."
"Natural Born Killers"
soundtrack (Nothing/Inter
scope)—Produced by Nine Inch
Nails angst-meister Trent Reznor,
this album flattens late 20th-cen
tury culture into a roar of white
noise: Patsy Cline bumps up
against the world music of Peter
Gabriel; a gloomy Leonard Cohen
dissolves into a furious L7; Bob
Dylan's whine fades into a Duane
Eddy strut. Add NIN's hellish new
track "Bum," and the album blows
your head off as surely as Mickey
and Mallory would.
Honorable mentions go to
Combustible Edison, "I, Swinger";
The Indigo Girls, "Swamp
Ophelia"; The Pet Shop Boys,
"Disco 2"; and Aphex Twin; "Se
lected Ambient Works, Vol. 2."
Lee Hughey is a former DJ, and
claims to have seen every episode of
"Absolutely Fabulous."
Very Special Entertainment by the Legendary
Miss Rachel Wells
Miss Gay Atlanta 1972, Miss Gay GA1976, Miss Gay America 1978, appeared in Sharky's Machine
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