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Rip It Up, Issue 166, 1 May 1991, Page 28

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PET SHOP BOYS Where The Streets Have No Name (1 Can’t Take My Eyes Off You) (Parlophone) 12” U2, the godhead of the dumb ass who thinks that ‘corporate rock’ equals ‘real music’. Anyhow, the Pet Shop Boys reinterpret this ‘U2 classic’ and place it in the context of gay disco, hell | bet that Bono dude is real upset. It's a big beat extravaganza with this robotic voice chanting ‘Streets With No Name’ and that great Boystown Gang version of Frankie Valli echoing in the chorus. Reproduction and duplication is one of the great things in modern culture, it's what makes pop music so interesting. It's important to have things like this around, ‘authority’, be it musical or political, should always be questioned.

THE SOURCE (featuring Candi Staton)

You Got The Love

(Festival) 12” Okay, here's the story. Candi (Young Hearts Run Free’) Staton becomes born again, only doing gospel, this vocal started life as a backing to a Christian weight watchers video (I kid you not), as some fat guy jumped up towards God and a slimmer waistline, some English guy got a great idea. Combining Candi Staton’s vocal with a Jamie Principle back beat they created a sparse soul gem, if that sounds too stripped down turn it over for the Morning Time mix, which has a few more beats. A vital modern soul record that made the Top Five in the UK, purely through its stark beauty.

LIMBO MANIACS Butt Funkin’

(CBS) 12~

“From the Red Hot Chili school of funk rock, big on the bass twang and high on the quest for sexual satiation (is that a word?) as the boys go in search of

the perfect butt. Normally | would look in disgust at such antics, but it seems like harmless fun to me. Added bonus is the appearance of the doyenne of funk — Mr Bootsy Collins. Intense to the max.

GARY CLAIL Human Nature (Perfecto Records) Its an On-U sound thing done by Adrian Sherwood with the usual intoning voice that annoys the shit out of me. But there's that massive beat that rides like a hurricane, in this case a funky hurricane, in this remix by Paul QOakenfold. ;

| have a bit of a political problem with this, in that it’s hard to believe in a concept like human nature. I've always called it Capitalism. Apart from that difficulty it's possibly the best thing you'll hear this month.

ELVIS COSTELLO The Other Side of Summer (Warner Bros) Cassingle

This could have come off Armed Forces, it sounds so retro pop, the 60s organ and Beach Boys’ harmony bits. This is Mr C’s first single from his hundredth album — ‘Mighty Like a Rose’, it's quite frightening in its banality.

LOVE CORPORATION Give Me Some Love (Creation) 12” If you're feeling in a bad mood before listening to this little item you're more than likely going to commit an act of violence afterwards. Its sort of indie dance trance with this woman chanting ‘Give me some love’ over and over and over. Big in the ‘rave’ scene, I'm told, must be all that Ribena they drink. MIRANDA SEX GARDEN Gush Forth My Tears (Liberation) 12" ' Well, if Enigma can have a hit record with that gay monk beat, so can these people. Sort of ambient disco in the Danny Rampling mix and more upfront in its classical thrust in the other mixes. You would need a microscope to see any fun in this one.

MONIE LOVE & ADEVA Ring My Bell (Cooltempo) 12”

Smart cover with the fwo nightingales of the groove posed inmock boxing contest, you decide the winner. Ms Love raps bright and Ms Adeva sings stridently in this hip house workout. Three fast mixes that | find quite scintillating.

STEX i Still Feel The Rain (Liberation) 12” Bit of a strange one here. If's almost a northern soul groove, uptempo vocals with stabbing horns carrying the beat, enjoyable except for the guitar line (played by Johnny Marr) which detracts rather.

808 State Ooops (ZTT) 12" Ooops, big mistake. This usually excellent instrumental band drops its guard and lets Sugarcube Bjork warble nonsense over the top of their perfect beat. An oddity for sure, because | don't think fans of either will enjoy this. Flip side has ‘Boßo9l’ (live) and ‘Ski Family’ which are the usual techno dreams. z

DELASOUL Ring Ring (Ha Ha Hey) (Liberation) 12” It seems the boys are sick of that daisy age stuff they helped create, in

recent interviews they spoke about wanting to kick the ass of all those people giving them flowers — just punch them out. The new album is

called De La Soul Is Dead, here's the new style. ‘ Well, not too new, there is still that messy rapping and reliance on too many words, but there is a freshness to the beat. Using the reliable JBs (pass the peas) and a great snippet from the Whatnauts’ ‘Help Is On The Way’ (a track I've just spent two hours trying fo find in my record collection to no avail) they design a catchy pop song with a chorus line that sticks. The flip has a flute instrumental that is cool.

Is it a hite | hope so. KERRY BUCHANAN

SEPULTURA Under Seige 12“ (Roadrunner) This recently arrived twelve inch is a sampler of the material that will be on offer on the new Sepultura record, Arise. Sepultura are perhaps the only death metal group who seem to push the limited boundaries of that narrow field of music and will most certainly live longer because of it. This three song EP also features a cover of the Motorhead classic ‘Organisation’. Sepultura recently opened the proceedings at Rock In Rio in their native Brazil. Hopefully that honour will be repeated iniarger crowd arenas around the world as Sepultura look set to follow in the footsteps of Metallica and Arise to greater world recognition. LUKE CASEY