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Rip It Up, Issue 144, 1 July 1989, Page 31

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ANTHRAX Oidivnikufesin (Festival) Nota German documentary on cattle disease buta 75-minute completely live performance from New York heavy metal band Anthrax captured on the Among The Living tour at Hammersmith Odeon. The .show s very heavy but funny with most laughs provided by main maniac Scottlan who races around on stage wearing shorts and playing his guitar looking like some kind of hairy-legged road runner. He also shows usthe HM nose-blowing method and the sign of NOT! (Watch the vid and you'llsoon understand.) The band pump out those chunky riffs and some of the best songs featured are the pounding war beat of ‘lndians’, the frantic ‘| Am The Law’ and ‘NL.F.L." plus of course theirlive rap thrash-out ‘l'm The Man'. Thisis an opportunity to see Anthrax live without any possibility of getting caughtinamosh! GEOFFDUNN : THEWORLD’S GREATEST GOALS : (Virgin Video Meaty! 141 goals from the five World Cupssince 1966. A sumptuous : footballing feast packed into 58 juicy minutes. Hmm, yummy! : Thisismade in England and the English still think the same of soccer. The only blightis a niggling parochialism which extends from the overly long spotlight on England’s 1966 World Cup, to an unnecessary dig at Diego

Maradonathat constitutes a sour final line. Butthatin itself highlights how football, more than any other sport, mirrors a national character. England deludesitselfit's still a colonial force, somehow cheated out of power. You have French flair, ltalian temperament, the cold yet ever effective methodicism of the Germans, the Latin mix of wit and ruthlessnessthat is Argentina, and the

joyous exuberance of Brazil. (New . Zealand remains earnest, workmanlike, and totally out of the picture.)

The brilliance of Brazil runs like a thread of purest gold amongst the riches here. Laden with artists from Pele through to Zico, they've been gifted with dead-ball specialists who did for that little leather bladder what Hendrix did forthe Fender Strat, rock n’ rolling the sucker ‘il it sang. There's dramal The Argentinian captain ruefully fingering the Union Jackon a corner flag after being banished from the field in a match against hosts England in 1966. The ref said it was “because of the look in his eye”.Orthe “foul of the century” in 1982 by West German keeper, Harold Schumaker (an arsehole — capital A) on Patrick Battiston, that left the Frenchman with several cracked vertebrae yet went unpunished.

Butthe sweetness runs all over the sour. The best goals? For my money it's atoss up between the pearl by Brazilian captain (and later, coach) Carlos Albertos in the 1970 final against ltaly; not one, buttwo unbelievable 40-yard howlers by Dutchman Ari Hans inthe 1978 finals in Argenting, and, of course, Diego Maradona’s miracle goal against England three years ago, where he picked the ball up in his own half and waltzed through half the England team before plonking the ball past aseriously pissed off Peter Shilton. Yeah. ;

Fans of the insipid can amuse themselves by spotting the dead ringers for Shane McGowan and Jimmy Somerville in archival crowd footage. And us football bores can just wallow. BUFFYO'REILLY

FROMPAGE 4 The De La Soul LP Three Feet High & Rising,on New York's Tommy Boy label, will get Australasian release via Liberation Records. The soundirack for Ghostbusters 2 includes‘On Our Own’ and ‘We're Back’ by Bobby Brown, ‘Ghostbusters’ by Run DMC, ‘Supernatural’ by Bobby’s old mates New Edition, ‘Higher and Higher' by Howard Huntsberry (who

played Wilson in La Bamba) and ‘Spirit’ by Doug E.Fresh and the Get Fresh Crew. Soul divas Gladys Knight and Patti Labelle get down on the James Bond Licence to Killsoundtrack with the title song and ‘if You Asked Me’, respectively. Since Ice-T toured NZ, his cool debut tape Rhyme Pays has been released locally.

Expectanew LPfrom Sly & Robbie later this year, titled Silent Assasin with KRS-One of Boogie Down Productions producing. The previously unreleased Def Jam Run DMC movie Tougher Than Leatheris now showing in London and Sydney. Fruit-Kwan has left Stetasonic and the rappers are finishing workon a new LP without him.

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