BRIEFS

Rip It Up, Issue 44, 1 March 1981, Page 16

BRIEFS

D. McL

Monty Python, Contractual Obligation Album (Charisma)

Stop it, it's filthy. Anyway, you’re not even a proper woman. And put that albatross down when I’m talking to you. Look, I’m the senior officer here, and I haven’t had one decent laugh yet. And I don't care if Mrs Doris Dirt of Taihape thinks it’s “quite nice." I don't. Well, the blank track they censored is rather amusing, I suppose. But the rest of it is just an affront to ordinary, decent men who dress up as ladies. Like me. And by the way, this was definitely not written by Duncan Campbell. DC Night, Long Distance (Planet) Our own Chris Thompson has been associated with some pretty good radio rock since charting first with Manfred Mann, and ‘Love On The Airwaves’ continues the trend on this second Night album. Nice lyric, fine hook. The support is beefy muscley rock, strongly sung always by Thompson and Stevie Lange. The songs however are little more than competent, skilled direct performance notwithstan-

ding. RC Moon Martin, Street Fever (Capitol) Martin’s credibility as someone who had songs accepted by everyone’s favourite underrated genius Willy De Ville takes a bit of a dive on this nevertheless utterly accessible Los Angeles rock exercise. Martin says album three owes more to England and less to Memphis than the two before it. Maybe. Radio rock, the band pumping and feisty, the hooks easy to find. File beside Bob Welch better than that perhaps, but not better enough. RC Billy Burnette (Epic) Both Rocky and Billy Burnette are offspring of the Burnette brothers, rockabilly greats of the fifties, but, unlike cousin Rocky, Billy Burnette's debut is less of an attempt at parental necrophilia more a man with roots, recognising and coming to terms with them. This debut is impressive enough to warrant a second release inspite of (because of?) the man’s background. At least he knows what a haircut is.