RECORDINGS

Rip It Up, Issue 226, 1 June 1996, Page 6

RECORDINGS

Patti Smith, Gone Again (Arista / BMG) with Lenny Kaye, Tom Verlaine and Jeff Buckley. Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Echo (Reprise) — includes Jimmy Reed’s ‘Baby What You Want Me to Do’. Mike Flowers Pops, A Groovy Place (Polygram) — includes covers of Prince’s ‘1999’, Bjork’s ‘Venus As A Boy’ and a Velvet Underground medley. Vernon Reid, Mistaken Identity (550 Music / Sony). Super Furry Animals, Super Furry Animals (Creation / Sony). Screaming Trees, Dust (Epic). Nada Surf, High / Low (Elektra) — produced by Ric Ocasek. Grant Lee Buffalo, Copperopolis (Slash / Polygram). Beck, O-de-lay (Geffen). Dead Can Dance, Spiritchaser (4AD). Linda Perry, In Flight (Interscope / MCA) — ex 4 Noh Blondes singer. Marilyn Manson, Anti-Christ Superstar (Interscope) — produced by Trent Reznor and Dave Ogilvie (Skinny Puppy). Peter Droge & the Sinners, Find A Door (American/BMG). The Blue Nile, Peace At Last (Warners). Jawbox, Jawbox (Atlantic). Failure, Fantastic Planet (Slash/Polygram). The Lounge Lizards, Queen of All Ears (Luaka Bop/Warners). Tom Verlaine, Millars Tale (Virgin). Frente, Shape (White / Festival). Tim Booth (James), Bernard Butler, Angelo Badalamenti; Booth & the Bad Angel. Randy Bachman, Merge — ex Bachman Turner Overdrive. Neil Young guests on track ‘Made In Canada’. Biohazard, Mata Leao (Warners). Roger Taylor, Fun In Space (EMI). Spring Heel Jack, 68 Million Shades (Trade 2 / Island). Bodycount, Violent Demise (Virgin). Slayer, Undisputed Attitude (American / BMG) — hardcore covers.

AOTEAROA Second Child, Slinky (Wildside) — June. Superette, Tiger (Flying Nun). OMC, Time Is Money (Huh! / Polygram) — July Annie Crummer, Seventh Wave (Warners) — July.

3Ds, Strange News from the Angels (Flying Nun) . Solid Gold Hell, The Blood & the Pity (Flying Nun). Alec Bathgate, Gold Lame (Flying Nun). The Clean, Unknown Country (Flying Nun). FUNKY Fishbone, Chim Chim’s Badass Revenge (Rowdy). MeShell Ndegeocello, Peace Beyond Passion (Maverick / Warners). Wreckx-N-Effects, Rap’s New Generation (MCA). Whodini, Six (So So Def / Sony). Chuck D, The Autobiography of Mista-Chuck. Nas, It Was Written (Sony). Horace Brown, Horace Brown (Motown). L.V., I Am L.V. (Tommy Boy / Festival) — ‘Gangsta’s Paradise' singer. Keith Sweat, Keith Sweat (Elektra). Tevin Campbell, Back to the World (Warners). George Clinton, The Awesome Power of a Fully Operational Mothership (550 Music / Sony) — reunites Bootsy, Bernie Worrell and Junie Morrison. Lost Boyz, Legal Drug Money (MCA). Kool & the Gang, State of Affairs (Curb). ROOTS Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Braver Newer World (Elektra) — produced by T-Bone Burnett. Roy Rogers, Rhythm & Groove (Pointblank / Virgin). Lyle Lovett, The Road to Ensenada (Curb). Keb’ Mo’, Just Like You (Okeh / Sony). Mickey Hart, Mystery Box (Ryko) — vocals by UK a capella group Min Juleps. Squirrel Nut Zippers, Hot (Mammoth / Festival). Charlie Watts, Long Ago & Far Away (Pointblank / Virgin) Bo Diddley, A Man Amongst Men (Code Blue). Neville Brothers, Mitakuve Oyasin (A&M).

REISSUES Jethro Tull, Aqualung (Chrysalis) — plus unreleased version of ‘Wind Up’ & live ‘Song For Jeffrey’, ‘Fat Man’, ‘Bouree’. Mel Torme, Collection (Rhino) — 4 CD box set. Beach Boys, The Pet Sounds Sessions (Capitol) — 4 CD documentary box set. George Benson, In Flight (Warners).