Page 12-The Michigan Daily - Friday,1December 6,1991 CHANNEL Z Get into that joyful Christmas spirit with the beginning of the an- imation fest. Tonight, witness fat cat Garfield (guffaw, guffaw) cele- brate Christmas in the country. Watch A Garfield Christmas Special (8 p.m., CBS). Garfield's deadbeat cynicism is the kind that we'll never get sick of. Not! After that, it's the Claymation Christmas Celebration (8:30 p.m., CBS). Thousands of hours of work went into this detailed, realistic pgrtrait of the birth of Jesus (maybe, the TV Guide didn't elabo- rate.) RECORDS Continued from page 11 tener to ask, "Didn't I just hear this song?" Every song probably uses the same drum machine, altering the rhythm ever-so-slightly from one song to the next, and nearly every song contains the exact same key- board arrangement. Not only is the album not original as a whole, but each of the album's songs has little individuality in relation to others on the record. This is not to say that A bra- cadabra is a bad album; there is nothing bad about it. The musician- ship of the band's two members, Martin Fry and Mark White, is sound, and the overall production of the record is crisp. However, there is nothing great on this album - lit- tle that would make you say, "I re- ally feel like listening to that new ABC album right now." The album is not without its bright spots, however. The Black Box remix of "Say It" turns a so-so disco tune into an energetic, '90s- style dance tune. "What's Good About Goodbye," probably the al-, bum's most exciting tune and cer- tainly its most interesting, deviates from the disco form somewhat. The rhythm is much more complex and the instrumentation varies greatly from the rest of the album. The band even experiments with a brass sec- tion and real bass guitar on this tune, which is reminiscent of earlier ABC recordings. ABC fans may be disappointed with the band's latest effort. But the release of this album, if nothing else, is at least a reminder to fans that they can still pull out their dusty old copies of the band's first album, Lexicon of Love, and enjoy the ABC's best work - music that remains fresh even today, nearly a decade after its release. -Tom Nixon PRINCE Continued from page 10 Even more overlooked than the concert flick double album Sign Of The Times or Around The World In A Day and Lovesexy, the two movie-less albums, was the Under The Cherry Moon soundtrack Parade. With instrumental pieces like "Venus de Milo" and the an- drogynous-sounding love song "Sometimes It Snows In April," ambivalently addressed to Tracy, Parade is the most subtle example of Prince's lasciviousness to date. The bottom line is that the in- dustry demands that musicians satu- rate the market before the industry will recognize an individual's worth. All the while, heaps of tal- ent are being ignored. For most, it was as if Prince didn't exist prior to '82 with the release of 1999. As he slipped back into relative obscurity, volumes of cutting-edge music have been overlooked. That is why, as a dedicated fan, it is difficult for me to bask in the glory of the success of Diamonds and Pearls. The album does not ful- fill my expectations of Prince. In the progression of his music, Dia- monds and Pearls falls somewhere around Dirty Mind and Con- troversy. Perhaps the LP was meant to be released in '83, the only year since his debut in '78 that Prince did not release an album. No praise for Prince is unwar- ranted. What he does, he does well - he's Prince. But who wants to see Prince doing what everyone else is doing? The whole magnetism to the enigma that is Prince and the Purple Reign is his ability to willfully shock and tease with his coy de, ception. Prince is about innovation, risks and ambiguity - g-strings ands trenchcoats, nudity and questioning: "Have U ever wanted 2 play with someone so much U'd take any one, boy or girl?" "Anna Stesia," -Lovesexy 4 "Am I black or white? Am I straight or gay?" "Controversy," -Controversy and the answers: "U know there ain't no othei that can do the duty in your bed." X "Anotherloverholenyohead," - Parade ^ . I A CLUB RESORT U of M Students 2For1LiftTicket 11-28-91 through 12-22-91 & 1-5-92 through 1-10-92 1-800-678-4111 - - Present this coupon at lift ticket window-- m THE G REAT WALL_ RETA URANT The members of ABC (Martin Fry and Mark White) make music almost as pretty as they are. ROACH Continued from page 8 productions and holding a faculty position at the University of Massachusetts. Having played together for more than a decade, the Max Roach Quartet is the longest-lived jazz en- semble currently playing. Roach said the group has remained together for so long because the members of the quartet also work on other pro- jects. So, when the quartet recon- venes after a break, the members look forward to playing with each other. "It keeps us all very fresh,' he said. Roach said he doesn't see his cre ativity split between the variou music formats when it comes to sites ting down and composing or arrang-* ing, because, in the end, "I'm still: dealing with music - it's all th 4 same thing." THE MAX ROACH QUARTET plays two shows Sunday, at 8 p.m. and 10 p.m., at the Magic Bag Theatre Cafe in Ferndale. Tickets - are $12.50 and $15. Call 554-30301 or 547-SAMS for tickets/info. Specializing in Szechuan, Hunan, and Cantonese 747-7006 1220 S. University at S. Forest Ann Arbor " Dinners and Lunches - Carry-outs Best New Restaurant--1988 --The Michigan Daily Best Oriental Restaurant--1989 -- The Michigan Daily Best-Take-Out-- 1990 --The Ann Arbor News KULT Continued from page 8 too seriously is what confounds the Kult's biggest critics. "When we're together, we're a family," says McCoy, choosing his words carefully, "and we all do this one thing called My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult. We don't know why we do it, but we do it." MY LIFE WITH THE THRILL KILL KULT AND THE BOMB GANG GIRLZ will open for B1 UXIE AND THE BANSHEES tonight at Club- land. Tickets are $18.50 in advance at Ticketmaster (p.e.s.c.), and doors open at 6:30 p.m. The bill also appears in Kalamazoo next Thurs- day at 8 p.m. at the State Theater. 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