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Rip It Up, Issue 213, 1 May 1995, Page 6

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■ “I don’t give a fuck about OJ. Simpson. He ain’t been black since he was at high ' ; ■ 7 school.” ■ ICE T • ■ < ' '•*• v ' “It would be the second immaculate conception.” TRENT REZNOR ON COURTNEY BEARING HIS CHILD “From an artistic standpoint the MTV .„• Unplugged concept, is a total joke. You take bands that are fundamentally elec-tric-rock bands and put acoustic guitars in their hands and make them do a pantomine of a front-porch performance/ It’s not an authentic reading of that music at all. It’s like watching a water ballet crossed with an NFL football game.” FORMER NIRVANA PRODUCER STEVE ALBINI “A combination of Slimfast and younger men. It works pretty well — the younger < - brothers!” ARETHA FRANKLIN’S DIET TIPS “I need to sell twice as much as 1 have so far to recoup. You know, I haven’t seen a royalty cheque in over 20 years, which is kind of a shame, because you’d think there would be at least a million people out there who would appreciate my work.” JONI MITCHELL “The Smile tapes aren’t enough in themselves to stand alone as an album. The’re just short strips and pieces of stuff I recorded when I was using drugs. I was sort of out of it. I couldn’t think past 20 or 30 seconds of music because I was so screwed up. If I had a ••■y V say,‘Junk it, don’t do it’.” - BRIAN WILSON ON PLANS TO RELEASE THE LOST BEACH BOYS’ ALBUM. “I don’t like it but it's the record compa- . ny who’s doing this, so what can you ./ . do?” DEBORAH CURTIS ON THE ARTHUR BAKER REMIX OF ‘LOVE WILL TEAR US APART’. “I would go out on the beach and sing the vocal track. I felt most comfortable singing that way because that’s how I . started, singing in front of the ocean in Iceland. Outside the studio, we set up the backing tracks and a long microphone lead. I wandered around under the stars, climbing and hiding in the bushes while I sang.” . ’’ ■’ BJORK “The tightrope between music promotion and image promotion is tricky footing. I turn down soap opera cameos and

supermarket openings every day.” BELLY’S TANYA DONELLY