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By Paul Bradley 5&3“ ' . For Those Who Think Young — Rough Trade v .- YOu may have seen Rough Trade performing g on the 1980 Juno Awards where the band's head mistress, Carol Pope - with an anatomical gesture generally unbecoming a lady -.- managed to embarrass the

CBC, the studio audience, . ,.

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last album, Avoid Freud, has given Carol Po . the reputation of being a frustrated binbo obsessed with the seedier side of the world's oldest pastime.

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"nobodys bimbo". Though the atmosphere of sex, booze, and other goodies is still a visible ' element in Rough Trade's work, Pope seens to have backed off from the tough and aggressive posture that she went out of- her way to establish on Avoid ‘Freud. The change is definitely for the better. As good as their last l.p. was, Pbugh Trade's latest offering (is a more polished and cohesive effort. MOst of the , Carol Pope/Kevan Staples compositions arecl‘ean and danceable, especially: "All Touch", "Faking It", and "Blood Lust".

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market than the average person can stomach,‘ I can't think of any reason why you would want to add this dud to your record collection.

There is one good song on the album — namely "Dial Red", a clever piece about a song on the Chinese Top 40. The rest of the l.p. finds the Bopcats mired in bad rockabilly, bad blues, and in pursuit of a fifties sound that they can't seem to nail dam.

Maybe there is a time and place for this sort of thing but for ne the Bopcats are a band I can do without. Love that name, though.

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In fact, I question whether the band knows just what ‘it is doing. At tines they want to sound like Yes, though I can't imagine why. Other tines they want to sound like Gary Newman. Again, I can't imagine why.

I suspect that Rage In Eden is supposed to— have a concept; but just what it is gets lost in over-production. Some of it might sound o.k; on the soundtrack of Star

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