7W w w w w R E L E A S E S midnight-hour appeal. Prefab this band R,__ C _ K the delightfully vocal-gimmicky "Give E ENCE isnot._._It To Me Baby." James has a fine if rather theatrical voice, and his ran- The dB's-Like This (Bearsville) diness seems looser and less calculated Andreas Vollenweider-Pace Verde Great fun. With Chris Stamey gone than Prince and his pals. There's a lot A I L JB U4 S (CBS) and Pete Holsapple as the sole fron- of fun here ("You and I," "Dance Wit' This 12" maxi-single sampler is as tman, the dB's emerge on their first Me," etc.)-but, given his '80's shock- sufficient an introduction to Swiss com- domestic release (after two fine impor- value venneer, James has progressed poser/space cadet Vollenweider's aural ts) with their most consistently rewar- very little beyond the medium-high wallpaper as one needs. There's a cer- ding album. No doubt a few older fans average of mid/late '70's soul/funk. Prefab Sprout - "Swoon" (Kitchen- tain initial novelty to hearing an elec- might miss Stamey's weirdness, and D.H. ware/Epic/CBS) tric harp played as a percussion/bass find the newer emphasis on harder instrument, but the gimmick wears thin rocking, more distinctly Southern MTA L Fleet-footed, charming, and blithely quickly enough. After that all you have flavored material too spicy for their Metallica-Ride The Lightning uncool, the Prefab Sprout's U.S. debut to listen to is some innocously pretty taste, but that's their loss. On Like (Megaforce) Swoon doesn't fit easily nto any trendy new age musak. Tolerable to study or This, Holsapple (who describes this as One of the best of the new heavy category, and that's part of its sly, read to if the volume is turned down, the band's "third first album") metal bands, Metallica slips a little bit uneven appeal. Coupling the most and you're already adequately oc- emerges fully as a truly gifted on this album compared to the last one. unashamedly pretentious stream-of- cupied. B.L.B. songwriter with an intuitive knack for Kill 'em All (a must album for all confession lyrics since The Smiths with eloquently simple lyricism, and a metalheads). On Ride The Lightning a musical restlessness that owes more Midas touch for turning a few well Mtliaocsnlymkeniei- than a bit to light jazz, Swoon juggles The Waterboys-A Pagan Place phrased notes into beautiful little tallica occasionally makes noise in- synth-wave and simplepp to an effect (Island) phrasdcnote okbeTh tiflli.l stead of music but not often. The album snhwvansipepoptoaefct Isnd melodic hooks. The only problem is also contains one mellow song which is that's fey but ingratiating. The Mike Scott, the leader of the Water- that the dB's pop aesthetics just might hardly their style. On the plus side this playfulness in writing and arrangemen- boys, makes painfully obvious his be too pure for mnass acceptance, when al ise basctlicathkicksshe doosr ts lends this a sense of confident in- desire to be the next big British thing. the curet tred nofavo p roduc album is basic Metallica kick the door dulgence that few first LPs have. If He is the only performer pictured on the tien texttren dn w avos fashiouc- down, tear 'em up rock-n-roll. Once comparisons must be made, try this on: album cover, and the other Waterboys ions euring anctu msandc Afaion again they feature Lars Ulrich's poun- Joni Mitchell's jazz noodling in a wave- seem to be, for all intents and purposes, rsense er tieir actuamstopico ar ny ding drums, Kirk Hammett's fast, solid 's pop context? Oh well, just listen to the sidemen-pawns to be used in Mike's Holsale to otheite(Difford head etarandJal is record. This Scot band would probably quest for pop-messiahdom. This is apple took, owred (Dgrfo) havy metal singing This album i a soun beterand Tillbrook, Lowe, and Rundgren) must for all headbngers. Not for the sound better if Paddy McAloon's really overbearing music. Mike uses because he's surpassed them all. If the squeamish. R.L. flexible Astec Camera-type vocales those trendy acoustic guitars for that dB's can't make it now, all hope is lost. weren't augmented by Wendy Smith's earthy, gritty sound, but adds the most B.L.B. 'C L A SS IC A L unnecessary high-girlish backups. But incredibly cliched horn section in Hoodoo Gurus-Stoneage Romeos this album has a lot of the refreshing recent memory, and tosses in self- (Bigtime/A & M) Saint-Saens: Carnival of the Animals, emotinal directness of Aztec's 1st, plus indulgent instrumental solos and eerie Unlikely torch-carriers for the necro- with Katia and Marielle Labeque duo- a delicate instrumental touch (with choir work to try and convince us that A billy flame of the Cramps, Australia's pianists; Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf very nice extras, like the harmonica on Pagan Place is a monumental work. Hoodoo Gurus deliver agreeably slick Op. 67. Violinist, Itzhak Perlman as "Don't Sing") and that aforementioned Boy, only artists don't capitalize "I" in cave-rock on this U.S. debut LP. Lyrics narrator on both, with the Israeli cocktail-jazz sweetness. It may sound their lyrics. A Pagan Place is like "It was a Phil Spector nightmare" Philharmonic conducted by Zubin cloying but it isn't usually. At it's least, monumental only in its emptiness and dig up telltale roots perhaps too ob- Mehta. Swoon doesn't sound like anything else its calculatedness. The lyrics are prin- viously, but this is highly credible Itzhak Perlman plays the role of happening right now (no small com- ted on the back cover, so there is no ex- psycho-psyche-pop, with colorful wor- narrator this time in these two tales pliment), and at its best it has a real cuse for buying this record. J.L. dage and solid tunes. Cuts range from with orchestra. I must say he fulfills medium-dark balladry ("Zanzibar") to the role with an exuberant amount of nifty trad pop ("My Girl") and from charm and titillation, which is as fun fade-to-black rockers ("Let's All equally pleasing to ears as the sum- Turn Loose") to near-Monkees ptous tones he usually nets out ofhis melodicism ("I Want You Back"). The fiddle. His fine articulation of the vivid Cramps-type yuck stuff doesn't ac- rhymes and verses in the two works tually emerge all that often, but when it combined with a very polished Israel does')Dig It;Up," "DeathShip'"A- Phiharmonic, led by Zubin Mehta Sr? nwg +Uvid thur"), it feels like the Gurus' maethicorbuonotealm dominating urge. Disciplined but con- very laudatory. French sisters, and vincingly grungy, the Gurus do trashy duo-pianists Katia and Marielle retro rock without conscious nostalgia Labeque play their parts in the Saint- or apologizing. Big fuzzy gee-tars, good Saens very crisply and rhythmically ragged-edged vocals, and excellent with great spirit, but at times their tone genre-shuttling production by Alan color is just not varied enough and a lit- ne. ! T D.H. tle too brittle. Overall, the record should make a keen addition to ones F__' _._UN _K record collection. N. G. - tRachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2 in e " Rick James-Reflections (Gordy/M- minor Op. 27-Los Angeles Philhar- iCA) monic, Simon Rattle conductor. Rick James seemed for a while like a (Angel) serious threat to the sex-glitter-outrage The Liverpool-born Simon Rattle ~ funk throne of Prince, but he hasn't conducts the Los Angeles Philharmonic managed to go anywhere beyond that in a very technically powerful perfor- point (not that crossover status need be mance of the Rachmaninoff Second any measure of worth), and he still Symphony in its Original Version. This. hasn't put out a whole album of ace version restores about 15 minutes of material. This greatest-of collection music which is often omitted due to demonstrates in equal parts his sense of sanctioned cuts that Rachmaninoff ap- Shumor, his ability to knock off a fine proved himself. The orchestra is never (% L groove and riff, and his limitations. really terribly emotional especially in The selection ranges from conventional the beautiful and serene Adagio but good '70s-type big-production disco movement, where that sentimentality [ fund ("You Turn Me On") to is a true necessity. One plus though, is Parliaque stuff ("Bustin, that the brass section is extremely Out") to up-to-date sex-dance coolness powerful and many of the more ("17"). The real blowouts are the sould energetic sections of the piece are very ballads ("Oh What A Night 4 Luv" and mentally stimulating. N.GG. "Fear and Desire"), which are just boring filler and could easily have been Recent Albums was written by Qr RALpiIf * ***" A creleased ten years ago. The album's Daily staffers Byron L. Bull, Neil RFA L ?RO L IA N SOME CO 4NjTItwo arguable classics are the an- Galanter, Dennis Harvey, Rob noyingly addictive "Super Freak" and LaDuke, and John Logie. 10 ------L---ke,-;nd-J-- --Lg98. I C 0 V E Getting b~ down to gP By Jeff Bergida it s a refreshing change of pace to talk to the administrators and faculty at the School of Business Ad- ministration. There is nary a mention of budget cuts, declining enrollment, or worries about the future. Unlike some other sections of the University, the Business School is ____ thriving, on both the undergraduate 10, and graduate level. Last Friday's dedication of the latest addition to the School, a building which contains extensive library and com- puter facilities and additional Kresge building: Anne Mathews (left) and Sherry Sandoval in front of the recently co classroom space, was the third expan- Dr. Donald Skadden, Senior Associate very important part of the university. on? Be a p sion to the original building on the cor- Dean. "There was a big development But as far as them becoming a First-ye ner of Tappan and Monroe. Previously, drive." dominant force or any stronger relative course loa the Paton Accounting Center and Hale The ability of the school to attract to the rest of the university, I'm not marketin Auditorium had been added on. donors is evidenced by a display outside sure I see that happening." behavior, In every corner of the "B-School", the new library which features a plaque The B.B.A. program begins in the Unless it there are statistics to back up claims of thanking the organizations and in- junior year of an undergraduate. The pleted, sei success: dividuals who contributed to the drive. Business School accepts approximately required. e 1983-84 was the best recruiting The display stretches out over the 240 B.B.A.s a year; 50-60 percent of the and thus placement year ever at the Business length of a wall. applicants are admitted and, while the with a 2.7 School. 291 firms conducted 12,292 on- Although the Business school is not number of applicants for the 1984-85 year whe campus interviews, a 10 percent in- diverting funds from the financially school was slightly down from the voted to r crease over the previous year. Thirtye strapped Schools of Natural Resources previous years, the admissions process "When' nine of those 291 companies were and Education, it does create a is a rigorous one. get into ti reruiting at the Business School for the situation from which tension could "What makes it quite competitive is date a 3.0 first time. arise, that, by and large, people are becoming den, "it's Michigan B.B.A.s (Bachelor of "I assume there must be (some ten- more aware of what we want," Goodman many of Business Administration) reported an sion)," said Dr. Skadden, "but I think says. "Therefore, the competition, that averages ve r ag e o f f 15 o n c a m p uys in te r v ie w sh a d t h e fi r and 3 job offers each. They are earning to have p an average of $20,100, as compared with and sudde College Placement Council's average of . . te. than they $18,400 for undergraduates in business 'This is definitely one of the best programs What it administration. '5 onedprogram aDepending on which survey you in the country. Its probably one of the top studentse subscribe to, Michigan's B.B.A. tWo.' directly program is rated either first in the PeCarrolProfessor nation or second, behind The Wharton - PeggyJanuary,) School of the University of Pen- director of placement School for nsylvania. instructor " Mean grade point average of en- cial Man tering undergrads has increased to 3.5. pert on th "The quality of the students is "The p exremely high," says Judith Goodman, it's been well-handled on this campus. is, the pool, is very strong. Some students, director of admissions. We haven't really been subjected to a students may decide to consider other here are But success and expansion means lot of pressure. options." soon as I that small problems can become big "I think people recognize that it's a Upon entrance, it doesn't take long they com issues and there are a number of phenomenon of supply and demand. for the business student to realize that saying I questions that should be addressed. Students are not willing to enroll in one the next two years won't be a barrel of them this How does the wealth of the Business school and there's an oversupply wan- laughs. The admissions office organizes an entry s School affect the rest of the University? ting to enroll in a different school. One an orientation program for the in- "The B What happens to a group of students is going to decline and one is going to coming students which introduces them compete who enter with a 3.5 G.P.A. and are grow." to the people and policies of the school. Because c then assigned to a 2.7 median (recently Professor George Cameron has been While the various services that the B.B.A. p changed to 3.0) for all required cour- teaching business law at the school sin- school offers are presented, the student kids are r ses? Considering the importance of job ce 1971. His political science may be too overwhelmed by the getting j placement, is there a danger of the background gives Cameron a strong academic regulations to hear them. could wa school becoming less of an academic perspective of how those on the liberal There are 13 required business cour- quality of center and more of a job factory? arts side feel. ses which must be completed to earn a hours." "This University is obviously very B.B.A. Required courses may not be "It do strong in those (liberal arts) areas and taken pass-fail. Schedules must be ap- has inc LL financing for the new building should continue to be," he said. "Cer- proved by School counselors and the Cameron A.was generated outside the univer- tainly I'd have to say that the number of requirements does not leave sity. "It was done with gifts from alum- professional programs at this univer- much room for electives, especially in ni, friends, and supporters," explained sity clearly are and will continue to be a the first year. Want a shoulder to cry S'