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Page 8 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, February 20, 1987
Records
Big Black
The Hammer Party
Homestead
The press kit that accompanies
Big Black's The Hammer Party
reads like The Rock Critic's Guide
to Evil Adjectives. It includes catch
all phrases like "blarin'
aggression," "majestic ugliness,"
"urban nausea," "manic brain
death," "maelstrom of booming
dread," "flipper chewing on
razorblades," "singes like a hot
soldering iron," "Theda Bara with a
cudgel," "mutant crunch,"
"unremitting grimness," and
"repugnant power" to describe Big
Black and their sound. This about
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sums it up - there just doesn't
seem to be any adjectives left for
me to use.
Anyway, for those of you who
don't know, The Hammer Party is
a reissue of the first two Big Black
EPs Lungs and Bulldozer which
are well out of print. All those
silly adjectives aside, a friend of
mine summed upLungs best when
he said that he could really like Big
Black except that everytime he
hears them he's just gotta get up
and start pacing around the room.
He's right for the most part -
Lungs is irritating and it puts you
on edge, but that's its charm. The
standouts are "Steelworker" and the
ever-loving "Dead Billy."
Bulldozer packs a bigger wallop
and even features a real live
drummer. The bad-ass redneck
hoedown "Texas," "Pigeon Kill,"
and "Seth," - which starts off with
a racist tirade (not the band's) - are
all hair raising, and, if nothing else,
will convince you that Big Black is
a great band. Still - you wouldn't
want them dating your sister.
-Danny Plotnick
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By Kurt Serbus
Round Midnight, Bertrand
Tavernier's film about-an expatriate
jazz musician living in France, will
no doubt be a difficult movie for
some audiences to sit through, for
the same reasons that jazz lovers are
a relatively small and exclusive
club. That's because Tavernier takes
his stylistic cues from the music
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efinition, and composition would seem to ears'
z, the film is weaned on MTV. That alone might:.
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ll. It moves Midnight, but the fact is that this
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es lazily back Like Dexter Gordon, for instance, a w
gin. Nothing jazz legend who all but plays
nd Midnight - himself as the seminal tenor
dies -- and the saxaphonist Dale Turner. Turner,
t concept will whose paticular genius is so
audiences overlooked here in the States that
mainstream he's forced to blow in a small
Parisian nightclub to pay the rent,
is a man who knows he's dying and
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Because of his numerous addictions
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s. constantly getting skunked. Gordon
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because he's a great actor (he isn't),
but through sheer charisma. His
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seem to harken back to a time when
there were giants in the earth, and I
res to the fact that he is the last of a dying
E ~breed makes his slow-motiont
suicide all the more dramatically,
engaging.
Though Gordon provides the soul
of Round Midnight, it's Francois
Clozet who provides accessability"4
As a struggling commercial artist'
CHARTER and drooling Turner-worshipper
who suddenly finds himself
se your becoming the friend and caretaker of
eantage his life-long idol, Clozet adds a,,
are, lively spark to Turner's slowly"
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T U.S.A.,, the characters, but in terms of the
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in Europe fascinating performance elevate the,
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evening. Bring a slight sense of
wonder and suspended>1.
preconceptions, bring a quietly'
poignant gin buzz, bring a couple
cartons of cigarettes and smoke, .
them continuously despite theater
ATE fire regulations. But go see it. It's.
04 not for everyone, but it's well
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