8 Arts & Entertainment

The Cadre «+ 2February 1999

CIMN Chart of Top 20 Jan 21 to Jan 27 1C Punchbuggy My Norwegian Cousin 2C The Smugglers Growing Up Smuggler 3 Suicide Machines Battle Hymns 4 Monster Magnet Power Trip 5C Sick Boys Put Your Weight on It 6C Melanie Doane Adam’s Rib 7C Barenaked Ladies Stunt 2 Hard Rock Miners Rock & Roll Welfare 9 Various Artists Strangeland OST 10 Cyprus Hill IV 11 Sugar Ray 14:59 12 The Delgados Pelton 13C Pluto Shake Hands With the Future 14C Whatever Whatever 15 Pearl Jam On Two Legs 16C Various They came From Indiebasement 17 Mighty Mighty Bosstones Live from the Middle East 18 Mitsar Sirius Bowl 19 Bizzy Bone Heaven’s Movie 20 Xzibit 40 Dayz & 40 Nightz | o ao AisA “A is A” happens to be debut. the name of an up and coming A nice thing about this Thinking Chair Canadian band. Featuringthe album is that Holley and powerful vocals of Karen Delahanty have written all of (Loggerhead Records) Holley as well as the guitar of the songs featured on the al-

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Fear of Drinking

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Furious George Gets A Record! (Recess records)

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Mark Delahanty, the band runs through an impressive collec- tion of 13 songs on this album — which happens to be their

Fear of Drinking is a Vancouver based band that revolves around two guitar- ists, Tim Readman and Gerard Kerr. This being said, the band is at its best when other musicians join in, suchas Tom Neville (fiddle, mandolin, bass), Victor Smith (fiddle, flute, whistles), Brendan Rideout

This is the first full length release from Furious George, an American punk band. There are 16 tracks on this album, and all but one suck. The highlight (surrounded by lowlights) of this album is “Gilligan”, which features the unmistakable vocals of Joey

bum. Toptracks on this album include: “Make Up Your Mind”, a rocker that show-

(bass, whistles), and Revellie Nixon(drumsand percussion).

I’ve come to the conclu- sion that the problem with this cd is that the vocals come across aS unemotional and anemic—definitely not some- thing that works on this album. That being said, the album does havea few highlights: “Mining

Ramone. Unfortunately, that’s the only good song, the rest don’t even warrant mention- ing.

What else is there to like about the album? Well, the cover is pretty neat, it has two pictures of a monkey (so

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cases the groups skills; as well as “Angel Of Mine”, a tune that shows an entirely differ- ent side of the band.

Having recently com- pleted a cross country tour, Holley and Delahanty have also made a recent appear-

Rant” is a powerful song about the devastation a town felt af- terthe local mineclosed (which is a scenario that has unfortu- nately been repeated just re- cently in Cape Breton); and the “Recruiting Sergeant”, a traditional song that tells the story of a British recruiting sergeant that attempts to enlist

similar looking to Curious George that there’s apparently a lawsuit going on) having his mugshot taken. Also, if one looks inside the liner notes, there’s a pretty neat cartoon of Joey Ramone at a concert. That’s about all that’s neat

ance on “Much East”. There’s nothing much to complain about on this album, beyond the fact that it occasionally sounds like the guitars are too into powerchords. That being said, this is an enjoyable al- bum.

a man against his will (which was a popular way for the army to keep its numbers up in years gone by).

I’m sure that Fear of Drinking would be more en- joyable live — unfortunately whatever energy they may have live doesn’ ttranslate onto this cd.

about this album.

I definitely wouldn’t recommend anyone to buy this cd. Save your money — or if you want a decent punk album go buy something bythe Smug- glers or the Ramones (just avoid their 80s material).

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