The Michigan Daily - Friday, August j,, 1986 - Page 11 Records- (Continued from Page 10) Although Animal Boy lyrically has response, questions , progress, sonething for everyone, musically it building "towers" which battle the is not for the faint of heart. Sure, "She natural confines. We reach for the Belongs to Me" is a soft, mushy love stars, but R.E.M. has another angle song, but the rest of Animal Boy. is on these aspirations: Buy the sky, animalistic to the ears. "Somebody and sell the sky, and lift your arms Put Something In My Drink" features up to the sky, and ask the sky, and the raunchiest singing Joey Ramone ask the sky, don'tfall on me... can muster, and, played often can "Cuyahoga" and "The Flowers of cause permanent ear damage. Dat ist Guatemala" are languid, folksy gut! as are slamdancers "Animal pieces, with beautiful acoustic guitar Boy" and "A peman Hop," two sad playing. The former is the perfect and funny tales of isolationism. example of time meeting place; "Freak of Nature" meanwhile, is an echoes of the Indian past combine assault on your eardrums and your with the voices of the present over a mind, 92 seconds of comedic hatred. river site: This is where we walked, The star of this record, however, is hunted danced and swam but bassist Dee Dee Ramone, whose against the future pioneers, they songwriting is improving by leaps and clearly answer we are not your bounds. His tribute to Sid Vicious and allies... "Flowers..." - while equally girlfriend Nancy Spungen ("Love atmospheric a piece, dazy and hazy - Kills") is a scream, and the anger in is tragically marred, albeit briefly. "Eat That Rat" has to be heard to be The electric guitar solo on the bridge believed: You get the monev reeks of AOR/MTV stylisms, the most And you shoot it up/Those are the benign and yet contemptuous of pop breaks/Its a chance you take/Get music. Far too ordinary for anything it together for your children's by this band. Then again, this is their sake. rock and roll record, right? Well, They do lapse into seriousness with R.E.M. proved that one already on "My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down "Hyena" (previously reserved for (Bonzo Goes to Bitburg)" which por- live performances) and the explosive trays a deep frustration with Reagan "Just a Touch," which flails about the and how helpless one can feel with listening range with crashing cym- 1986 in general. bals, roaring vocals (Stipe's a wild One wonders why the boys didn't do man), and even a piano gliss or two. an entire album with serious, political For a more humorous touch, there intentions, ditching the laughs and are two additional tracks which are guitars. Ramones making a not listed on the ten, out-of-order ones statement for 35 minutes? Yes, they on the back of the album jacket. "Un- could do it. And, yes, it could be good. der the Cabana" steals a typical But, alas, it wouldn't be the Ramones. hispanic guitar ditty and adds some -Mark Borowsky wacky underwater sounding vocals. -Mark_________ And their cover of The Clique's "Superman" is just hilariously goofy. It's alate'6slove song, something entirelyS . atypical for this band, yet it works. Steve Stai-The Brain Feels It's mighty refreshing to hear No Pain (New Alliance R.E.M. experimenting in such an Records) upbeat musical direction. After all, "Life's Rich Pageant" is 'an ex- Stain plays guitar, bass, synth, pression of the great inspector sings and makes noise. He was Clousseau, of Pink Panther fame. brought up on a diet of early Pere Ubu This new album proves that the band and it shows. His vocals are in the can use their best resources - in- David Thomas vein, wildly expressive telligent songwriting and deft and often unintelligible. This is his musicality - to the best advantages, main instrument in this raw and tying it all up in a glorious, crazed rock and roll. Understandable celebratory pageant of their own. And lyrics are about street directions and that'sthe whole idea. poor, misunderstood Lucretia -Beth Fertig Horgia's pets. Everything goes down ________________________the drain in "Vice Grip Heiress:" metal percussion and casio cycles The Ramones-Animal Boy along with breaking glass and sax (Sire) honks, reminiscent of Ubu's "Sen- timental Journey"; it ends with "tub Production on a Ramones album? sucking." Bubbles, tribal drumbeats, Say it ain't so. Yet five cuts into and weird guitars follow and a real Animal Boy, the Ramones' ninth noise hit, "Piece Got Teeth." A drum studio LP, one is eased into "She pulse and treated vocalsdbringstto Belongs To Me," in which Joey mind cata in a meat grinder, or the Ramone wails against a sea of syn- wartime screams of pilots going thesizers, acoustic guitars, and a wall down. Not for the timid. (New Allian- of background harmony that pleads ce Records, P.O. Box 21, San Pedro, "don't tell me how to love my baby." CA 90733) Slick, indeed. But say it ain't good? No, nein, - Chris Dunn nada. Even though the Ramones all will soon hit 30, their sense of humor is arrested at 19. The result is the best- Ramones album since Rocket to Russia, which means this is very No one faces canceralone. good. Da. Animal Boy hits about every Call us. band of the rock and roll spectrum: AMERNC ES T love, violence, politics, death, drugs, mental deprevation, social rej- Here are the Ramones-Richie, Dee Dee, Joey and Johnny back in black action. 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