Page 8 -The Michigan Daily - Thursday, March 15, 1990
Swell Maps
Collision Time Revisited
Mute/Restless
You've been blindfolded for a
decade. Your brethren haven't al-
lowed you to be exposed to the en-
lightened cartography of Swell
Maps. But along comes Collision
Time Revisited, and the blindfold
comes off. You are in a darkened lis-
teing room, a room that is slowly
becoming illuminated as each cere-
motfial candle is lit. You assume the
position, between the speakers. The
phonograph needle assumes its posi-
tion, on the record. Prepare to be ini-
tiated!
Didn't bring anything with which
to, ah, protect yourself? Don't worry
-no sheep are involved in this ini-
tiation. The brethren only want to
expose you to four sides of vinyl by
four guys from Great Britain who
have better things to do now than to
be Swell Maps.
Eighteen years after they first
formed, 13 years after they released
their first record and 10 years after
they self-destructed, the Swell Maps
finally get their first domestic chance
to apply their sonic paddle to Amer-
ica's buttock-like musical tastes.
Collision Time Revisited collects
the a-sides of three of their four sin-
gles, lots of tracks from the two al-
bums they recorded while they were
still together, plus a lot of material
that was released on compilations
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brothers and sisters. Let the cry be
heard: "Thank you, sirs! May we
have another?" Another sweet, do-
mestic taste of the Swell Maps pad-
dle, that is.
-Greg Baise
The Childrenb
The Children
Scale of Miles
The Children's pleasant LP re-
flects the simplicity inherent in their
name but after one side this charm-
ing quality recedes into blandness.
It's not that they are bad but that the
summery, mellow tunes sink into
repititious oblivion after a few lis-
tenings.
Their effort has some noteworthy
aspects. By using four vocalists of
both sexes and a variety of sound
styles, the songs fill the album with
a texture not found on most records
and the band makes the most of this
asset. They cover territory similar to
that of Canada's Grapes of Wrath,
expressed by musical forms from
folky pop to softish rock but always
within safe boundaries. The Camper
Van Beethoven-like violin on a few
cuts adds quality noise but once
again within an inhibited realm.
The many uncomplicated love
songs which describe amore in non-.
heterosexist yet sweet terms ("We
belong together;" "all this time/ we
could've been in love") can be satis-
fying alternatives to cock rock. But
because there are a number of songs
like "Home," which drones "Yes I
know" 17 times, the album drag,.
The band's use of unnecessary filler
breaks any positive continuity. They
sound like choruses of unfinished
songs sung by a large group of peo-
ple, including tots. This obvious
gimmick is not cute; it's irritating.
This album should appeal to
yuppies and other simpletons. Those
of us with brains could enjoy it i
the summer when complicated
thought processes are forbidden. We
are not children and do not need to be
reminded over and over and over and
over and over...
-Annette Petrusso
MUNMA D RECTORT
BOGLE
Continued from page 7
A veteran performer, Eric Bogle
knows to offer something to break
up all the gloom and doom at his
shows. "We've had a lot of trouble
with our audiences committing
mass-suicide after gigs," he's been.
heard to remark. Songs about over-~
sexed Chihuahuas and the Aussie'
barbecue craze will provide the life-
saving balance.
ERIC BOGLE plays tonight at8 p.m.
at the Ark, 6371/2 S. Main. Tickets,
will cost students $9.75, $10.75 for
everyone else.
SISTERS
Continued from page 7
powerful universality of the themes
defy the need for modernization.
Just as Chekhov abandoned the'
typical use of climactic action and.
resolution, Three Sisters also pre-
sents a new approach and challenge
to student-run theater. Eldred, a grad-
uating senior, said it is "the perfect
last opportunity of my college ca-
reer, the cherry (orchard) on the ice,
cream."
THREE SISTERS is being performed ,
in the RC Auditorium in East Quad
tomorrow through Saturday at 8 p.m.,
and Saturday and Sunday at 2 p.m'
Student tickets are $5, others $6.
The Children are such a happy little group. They must be too young to know any better.
that appeared throughout the last
decade.
Swell Maps were this great
noise/punk band from England. They
were perfecting their schizophrenic
style back when Thurston Moore
(the sonic goofball who does the
liner notes here) was just a lowly
Coachman. The Maps could shift
from the pseudo-Buzzcockian blud-
geoning of "Let's Build a Car" to the
pseudo-cacophonous clatter of "Big
Maz in the Country," all on two
sides of a single. As a double album,
Collision Time Revisited extracts a
diverse sample of the Maps' music,
showing how they careened their
homemade, sputtering car into a
punk rock abutment, making noises
like "BLAM!!" (a propulsive
punker), and making noises like the
smashing together of concrete bricks
accompanied by the humming of an
electric typewriter and some insane,
undiscernable vocals, these being the
three key musical elements of the
song "Mining Villages."
Mixing the noise with the punk
was the Maps' forte, with the depth
charge droning of "Midget Sub-
marines" disintegrating into the
mess of tangled guitar strings of
"Bridge Head (pt. 9)."
A good reference point for the
Swell Maps sound would be the
Fall, with Nikki Sudden's vocal de-
livery being reminiscent of that of
the imitable Mark E. Smith. Sud-
den's cut-up-like lyrical approach re-
calls Smith as well, except without
the Burroughsian surveillance para-
noia that permeates the Fall. Besides
the guitar and vocals and "songsmith
awareness" of Sudden, the Maps
boasted the demolitions expertise of
Richard Earl's guitar, Jowe Head's
bass and Epic Soundtracks' drums.
Soundtracks also often contributed
piano, which alternates between the
manic, as on "Border Country," and
the sublime, as on "Raining in my
Room," in which the piano totally
dominates.
Collision Time Revisited pro-
vides a healthy introduction and in-
duction into the sibling community
of Swell Maps fans. What more
could a "Greek" want? Well, with
their first taste of Swell Maps, the
acolytes will be out there, preparing
their nicest ties and beanies for the
rush to find more Maps material.
And with the news that Mute offi-
cials in England have re-released the
original Maps albums, they can only
plead to the pan-Hellenic impulses
of the domestic Mute honchos to
share the kindness of our U.K.
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