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Rational Youth

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Grapes of Wrath

The Clash

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11. The Dream Academy 12. Echo & the Bunnymen 13. Depeche Mode

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25. Pseudo Echo

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The state of Rock

“Rescue You”:

Glen Boswell In Review: Rescue You Artist: Joe Lynn Turner

Joe who? may seem like the appropriate question. Joe Lynn Turner is not a name you hear on your local radio station everyday. Only you chronic Rainbow fans out there are likely to recognize Joe as the ex-vocalist of that band.

Relax, I’m not going to give you a review of some obscure new record. Chances are that Rescue you should be gracing the local airwaves any day now if it isn’t already.

If you pick up the ‘Rescue You’ Ip you will probably recognize the Foreigner-like sound of the keyboards which form the back- bone.of the band’s sound. Well my little sharpies, the reason for that is that Foreigner’s key- boardist no longer plays for Foreigner but rather for ... you guessed it, Joe Lynn Turner.

It seems that both Joe and key- boardist Alan Greenwood became

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P.O.’d with their respective bands at about the same time. With 'e

addition of respected stu ad stage musicians Chuck Br gi (drums), and Bobby Messa.io

(Guitar), the band settled down to produce this album which is cur- rently invading my ears if not the charts at this particular moment.

What about the album? you say. Well with all this brilliant musicianship I am sorry to say that the key word is ho-hum.

The album is well produced and the talent is there but it just doesn’t catch fire. Unfortunately that probably means it will be a smash on AM radio. The after- noon airplay will only get duller with the introduction of any but a few of these rather uninteresting cuts. But hey there is an upside to the situation if you shelled out ten of your hard earned bucks for this record, it can be put to many uses; It’s great for those romantic evenings On the living room sofa when you need some music to dis- tract her attention but you don’t

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want her all that distracted. You van use it to rid your domicile of common household pests. Mice,

‘es, cockroaches, live-in relatives and other annoyances will be ouickly put to sleep for easy killing and isposal. If you get im, “native you can use the record itse’ for a Madonna sized earing, thel , °a very large hat or for home plate at a neighbourhood b all game.

‘Ac sally, I am being too hard on':. 'p, There are some pretty tasi .0rsels on this bone of a reco ‘. Eyes of Love is about as good as you can get for a nice slow ballad (before any of you English majors jump down my throat I will tell you that I am aware that it is not a ballad in the technical sense of the word). ‘‘The Race is On” is a good raunch tune for all yo budding guitarists and escapis’s to pretend you’re freak- ing out to in front of the mirror. In the interests of accuracy in this article, I myself pretended to freak out to this tune in front of

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my stereo and so I am convinced that it is useful for this purpose.

Overall, I am disappointed with the album. j just does not have the drive <ny of the predecessor groups from vhich it was spawned. That Foreigaer sound has been done to death, it doesn’t even work for Foreigner anymore. After you listen to this record for awhile, even Joe Lynn Turner begins to sound like Lou Gramm.

Joe Lynn Turner High Points “Byes of Love” “The Race is On” “Rescue You’”” Good credentials Low Points Everything else

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