ARTS The Michigan Daily Wednesday, January 8, 1986 Page 7 Records The Clash - Cut The Crap (Epic) Plain and simple, the "new" Clash's new album Cut The Crap (sans Mick Jones - he's now in Big Audio Dynamite)-has got to be the biggest disappointment of the year. Not only haven't The Clash put out an album in three years, but Cut The Crap is seven months overdue, and for more than a year Joe Strummer been touting this album as the single piece of vinyl to revitalize "punk." Cut The Crap doesn't come close to living up to all its ballyhoo, and it doesn't revitalize a damn thing. Side One, the album's "punk" side is particularly lousy. "Dictator," "Dirty Punk," "Cool Under Heat," and "Movers and Shakers" are just dogs. They're not exciting, uplifting. creative or anything. The back-up vocals are really annoying. They're t 4 1 4 produced so that the band sounds like they're a hundred strong, chanting and screaming like they're taking part in the most spiritual moment is the history of mankind. It's bad enough that they have to beat us over the head any say "Look look, isn't this great - aren't you inspired! Don't you want to initiate some radical social change." This style is even worse when shantged in such cruddy songs. Side Two is better, but not by a lot. The album's single, "This Is England" starts it off and is one of the album's better cuts. Strummer's raspy voice is at its best, the roaring chorus is toned down, the guitars have a much greater range and play well off of the keyboards. If nothing else, "This Is England" proves that the band's now guitarists know how to play more than just power chords. "Three Card Trick" is another of the album's standouts. It's Caribbean rhythms are very reminiscent of "Revolution Rock" from their Lon- don Calling LP. Strummer shows us his soft side on "North and South." It seems sort of off that one of the only good cuts on the album is a rather "pleasant" sounding pop tune. Such a song hardly befits a bunch of rads like the Clash. Well .. . this is The Clash in 1986. In "We Are The Clash," the album's one "punk" tune that works, Joe and pals shout "We ain't gonne be treated like trash/We've got one thing/WE ARE THE CLASH!" That's not saying much these days. -Danny Plotnick The Who - Who's Missing (MCA) It may be after the holiday season. ATTENTION STUDENTS SAVE 20% On all Michigan Daily Classified Ads with Student I.-D. " FIND A ROOMMATE " SELL UNWANTED ITEMS " ANNOUNCE PARTIES * BUY OR SELL TICKETS Place your ad Monday-Friday from 9a.m.- 5 p.m. at The Michigan Daily office, 420 Maynard, or Wednesdays at the Fish- bowl. but you can still go out and buy a copy of MCA's latest gift to all Who fans, neatly packaged in the "collector's item" Who's Missing. Digging through the fabulous collections of tapes that MCA and only MCA has the right to release, the giant record company finally realized what a good idea (financially and artistically) it would be to share some of those rarities with the public any pay proper homage to "one of the greatest rock and roll bands of all time." Hen- ce, two "unreleased" and several "unreleased in America" cuts on one piece of vinyl, resulting in the Meaty, Beaty, Big and Bouncy of the '80s. Wise move, fellas. And long over- due. On side one, Missing offers a unique look at The Who of the '60s: unique in that American never really caught onto the Mod Phenomenon, but we can gran- its significance in retrospect. products and creators of the Mod image, the early Who were immersed in the sounds of American R&B. James Brown's ."Shout and Shimmy" opens the disc with Daltrey moaning and groaning in all the right spots. The next two covers continue to show the band making this image their own, but when we hear Town- shend's own '60s compositions, The Who show us what they've learned from their mentors. It's one thing to cop a style and do it well. It's another thing altogether to make that style your own and use it as a springboard from which to lunge into your own groove, which is what happens on Townshend's own (previously unreleased) "Lubie (Come Back Home)." It has a grungey good-times, feel which shows the band on its way- There's also a hilariously reckless version of "Barbara Ann" sung by Keith Moon, which is a little smoother than the "Kids Are Alright" version. Side two is mostly B-sides of the early '70s. Entwistle's musical com- positions, "Heaven and Hell," and "When I Was a Boy" are explosive, but his singing is often weak., Daltrey's own number, "Here For More" is surprisingly solid and takes a country/western stroll which leaves plenty of room for the players', creativity. 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