8A - The Michigan Daily - Monday, September 16, 1996 God Street Wine's latest release 'Red' makes for a refreshing tastQ God Street Wine Red Mercury Lately it seems that "new" music is nothing but rehashed od '60s and '70s rock groups that frankly, weren't all that great to begin with. Even worse, a lot of that music is a poor imitation of groups who were rehashing that old music five years ago. Either way, it's bad. Now we all know that every band has influences, and every band borrows from a plethora of past styles, genres and what not, but it's the direction they go with those influences and what they bring to those styles that makes the music more than just new cute faces playing old Nirvana songs. So who, you may ask, will save the listening public from buying the same album again and again with just a dif- ferent band on the cover? God Street Wine has raised its collective hand. Sure, you'll recog- nize all the delectable styles that are on God Street Wine's latest menu, but you've never seen them in these combinations, in this exact way. Soul, bluegrass, funk, rock - you name it, they got it - and all wrapped up in catchy little pop tunes. Every time a new song comes on and you think you've got it figured out, they pull a 180 on you and rip into something that's like nothing else on the album. It's hip, it's happenin', it's now, and it's deli- cious. Perhaps the most intriguing fact of all is that God Street Wine manages to bring their own sense of unity to all these styles. Eddie Vedder will tell you that it's hard to experi- ment with a vast amount of new styles and ideas and come out with an album that sounds like a single work and not a compilation. "Red," however, pulls it off with an underlying groove that tells you that they know where they're at and where they're going. God Street Wine is the refreshing new taste that you've been looking for. With so many styles to choose from in just one band, they gotta have some- thing for everyone. Sure everybody loves Taco Bell, but nobody should be forced to eat there every day. -Tvler Brubaker Love 666 Please Kill Yourself So I Can Rock Amphetamine Reptile Take some drums that hit like gun- shots to the stomach, some harsh gui- tar-like things and layer some sweetly melodious vocals over them and you've got some very listenable Love 666 rock. "Please Kill Yourself So I can Rock" is their second album, and it is a worthy continuation of their chorus and rhythm-driven sound. The opening track, "Bummer," is sort of a reinterpre- tation of the traditional summer love ode. The lyrics "Winter time, summer time / Every day is bummer time when you're around" may be more of an inversion than a reinterpretation, but the whole feel of the song leads inexorably towards the conclusion that traditions are somehow or other being dealt with here. "Ball and Chain" has the staccato delivery of INXS's "Mediate" (which was itself derived in some small way from Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues") in the verses, but has a melodic chorus as well that makes the verses stand out to an even greater extent. Singer Dave Unger's vocals actually tend towards being delivered in tight lit- tle packets of modular brilliance. "Big Tower of White Noise" is an especiall brilliant example, with the cho ("White tower, tower of noise") being delivered in a fun scraggy voice, with the verse parts delivered in Unger's nor- mal breathy pocket style. And you can march to it pretty well. "Please Kill Yourself So I Can Rock" is different from almost any album out. Get some of this rhythm and noise for yourself and discover the joy it can bring to your heart. It is, after all, parade music for the unconventional.* - Ted W I Ar,- F=E HeK 'IrA4m-- I- Mass Meeting Wednesday, Sept. 18 -8 p.m. Kuenzel Ro Michigan Union Acid itions Sept. 27 through 29 http://www.umich.edu/ musket/ JOIN THE MOST PROMISING PROFESSION OF THE 21 ST CENTURY fleiCoE3t A~ TE~CNJEIt1 Prospective Teacher Education Meeting Wednesday, October 2, 1996 6:00 p.m. Whitney Auditorium Room 1309 School of Education Building Call 764-7563 for more information. CRNA Scholarships Consider becoming an Air Force CRNA through the Armed Forces Health Professions Scholarship Program. For more information, contact an Air Force health professions recruiter near you. Or call 1-800-423-USAF. AIhroi Health Professions God Street Wine - not just a bunch of pretty faces. Mi igan Mondays Michigan twed eers 9 p -close Bell's Amber T 'rd Coast Old AM Oberon Kin 's Cherry Al ANN t ' ' "King's Porte " Kin 's Pale le * " Motor City Nu rown " lell's Porter It's a fast and furious business world. 4e< IN' !7 Somebody has to "QQ4 LL f%' 7;:::i / ".' , .. %