S r. v- ar a r V 0 a 'IV 0 14 U. THE NATIONAL COLLEGE NEWSPAPER Life And Art OCTOBER 1988 OCTOBER 1988 Life And Art U- THE NATIONAL COLLEGE NEWSPA Metallica slams the hammer down with 'And Justice For All' By Michael Sturm The Daily Athenaeum West Virginia U. With this album and the right stereo equipment, you could easily demolish a small cinderblock building. . . . And Justice For All is a double-album set containing 65 minutes of music that makes Black Sabbath sound like Madonna. Yes, boys and girls, Justice is a heavy, heavy record. This album, as with all of Metalli- ca's material, sounds (for lack of a better word) slick. If you do like Metallica's music, though, you'll prob- ably like Justice, as it is well done. The set starts with a bang and con- tinues to bang. The album's title track is probably the best of the nine. The underlying theme here is justice, though concepts like freedom, madness and death are tossed in for good measure. "Eye of the Beholder" is lyrically the best track, speaking (or rather shouting) about freedom of speech and freedom of choice. "To Live Is To Die" is a primarily instrumental piece featuring lyrics by the band's late bassist, Cliff Burton. All in all, this is probably the best speed-metal album I've heard. The band is talented, the writing intelligent and the total package is perfection. Wheelchair jack-of-all-trades beats the odds FL"" Sweet strains from the Sugarcubes By Brenda McCarthy Daily Illini U. of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana It isn't uncommon for a university graduate to have a successful career as a ,CPA, to own a home in the Chicago suburbs or even to fly planes as a hobby. But it is unusual to have all these while confined to a wheelchair. Jim Gallo, a 26-year-old who gradu- ated in 1983, was permanently injured in a driving accident when he was an 18-year-old freshman at Northern Illi- nois U. A few years later he decided to attend the U. of Illinois because of its great accessibility for wheelchair- bound individuals. As an accounting major also enrolled in the department of aviation, Gallo didn't think he would have time for wheelchair sports. He did agree, howev- er, to watch a practice at the invitation of the university wheelchair basketball team. "As soon as I went to the practice, I caught that fever again. I was back in sports to stay," Gallo said. From the Illinois team, Gallo went on to join the Chicago Sidewinders wheel- chair basketball team, and later was instrumental in the creation of the Chi- cago Wheelchair Bulls, which is affili- ated with the Chicago Bulls profession- al basketball team. Gallo also works a minimum of 50 hours a week as a management consul- tant for an accounting firm in Chicago, and still finds the time to fly his own airplane on the weekends. Gallo said he plans on sticking with basketball as long as it stays fun and other possible commitments, like re- turning to school for an MBA, don't get in the way. Return to the glory days . Robert Conrad and crew have descended on the Pacific campus to begin filming of Glor CBS Movie of the Week about a 53- businessman who retires and returns to c fulfill a lifelong dream of playing football. W~ has been used as a location for the films cape, The Sure Thing, Friendly Fire and / the Lost Ark, this is the first time the UnivE be identified as the institution where the fi place. UOP students will be used as extra, NCAA regulations prohibit UOP's footbal from being filmed. Terri McGra Paciftcan, U. of the Pacific, CA U.. It's curtains for you, Mugsy U. of South Carolina (USC) students helpe The Golden Age of the Gangster this past s film that will air nationally in the fall. The film will focus on the years when notoriou ters like Baby Face Nelson and Al Capone the imagination of the American public. Al fourth of the movie footage is fron Movietonews collection. Editorial The Gamecock, U. of South Car Jim Gallo pauses from his activities by the plane he flew as an undergraduate. Howto run 4 -I own1 Sl yon B.A.D. starting to lose its grip on fine-tuned groove By Richard Sater The Purdue Exponent Purdue U., IN According to modern slang, "bad" im- plies some sort of hip excellence. Unfor- tunately for Big Audio Dynamite (with that great acronym built right in), their new album Tighten Up Vol. '88 is mostly just bad in the conventional sense. The first two B.A.D. albums are rather remarkable, audacious and energetic post-punk rock. Tighten Up finds Mick Jones and company running short of ideas. Unlike their earlier stuff, there's nothing here that makes you want to dance. Perhaps in search of a wider audi- ence, the band has homogenized their sound and smoothed out their produc- tion. It's a so-so rock/reggae approach, with sturdy ensemble playing. But effects man Don Letts's "found" effects, a hallmark of earlier B.A.D. material, are mostly absent. And while former Clash-man Jones is a good singer, the lyrics on Tighten Up are often ridicu- lously simplistic. There are, however, a couple of re- deeming tracks. "Apple Cart" is urgent rhythm and synth violin under a gentle vocal and "Other 99" is well-handled.' On the best song, "Just Play Music," everything meshes: vocal, riff, beat, even lyrics. AND ON THAT NOTE ._ Unlike the first two records, Tighten Up finally gets the band's obsessions with reggae, metal, clever lyrics, rock history and hip-hop down in the grooves, where it counts. 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