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February 17, 1993

 

Hansons Happy Hewing Hockey Hardcore
The Ramones get Don Cherry’s brain

THE HANSON BROTHERS

GROSS MISCONDUCT
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Sticks and stones may break your

bones but Alice in Chains will excite you

Alice In Chains (from Seattle)
have released their second album,
Dirt. The band has an odd sound.
They have typical metal elements in
theirsongs yetthey demonstrate their
creativity and originality
by altering those elements
significantly to make them unique to
the band (On ‘Sick Man’ they play in
3/4time-whichiscommonly referred
to as waltz time).

 

Alice In Chains

Dirt

Columbia\ Sony

reveiwed by Vernon KeidLayne

 

Staley has a good, adaptable vocal
style that really enhances the dark
mood for much of the material on
Dirt. The band is very tight, and
original; Jerry Cantrell’s playing is
song oriented rather than solo

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Beer, hockey, & punk — the
stuff of magic. It doesn’t take a Don
Cherry to know that good hits make
for good music. CanCon
programmers rejoice (or beware) —
the slapshot is back in Canadian
music!

 

The Hanson Brothers

Gross Misconduct

Alternative Tentacles Records
reviewed by Tim Crumley

 

Did you ever watch a ’76 movie by
the name of Slapshot? It involved a
bad bunch of hockey players on a
bad team whohavea winningseason
when the GM starts getting goons to
play for the team. Among the

oriented as so many guitarists out
there are, in fact most of his solos
compliment the songs they are laid
over top of (check out ‘Rooster’).

Dirt lyrically, notjust musically,
is a heavy album with songs about
death, disease, desperation, hate,and
addiction. Try ‘Hate to Feel’: “Stare
at me with empty eyes and point
your words at me/ Mirror on the
wall will show you what your afraid
to see”.

Then there’s ‘Sick Man’: “Ah,

what's the difference, I’ll die in this §

sick world of mine/ What the hellam
I/ leper from inside/ Inside wall of
peace/ dirty and diseased.”

My personal favorites off of the
album are ‘Rooster’, ‘Angry Chair’,
‘Sick Man’, ‘Would” (also heard on
thesingles soundtrack), ‘God Smack’,
and ‘Downina Hole’ (note-theactual
track 9 is not named, thus ‘Hate to
Feel’ is actually track 10).

Dirt is a great album and if you
are into either grunge, or metal. This
album is a definite must- have.

gooniest of the goons were the
Hanson Brothers, three 6 year-olds
trapped in 19 year-old bodies, who
speared, slashed, cross-checked, and
fought their way to the height of the
league when they weren't playing
with their dump trucks. Now they’re
ina band.

Actually, the band is made up of
members of NoMeansNo, DOA, and
Showbiz Giants— they just pretend
to be the Hanson Brothers. But it’s a
good impersonation. And the style
of music, you ask? Well, let’s just call
it ‘Ramonesesque.’ Actually,
considering the Ramones’ lastrecord,
they “out-Ramone” the Ramones.

Thedifference? Mostofthesongs
concentrate on Canadians’ favourite
pastimes: beer and hockey. With

in the Dirt with Alice and her Chains

 

It's Those Medeling
Kids in their Mystery Machine!!!

Local alternative band Mystery Machine

They were the winners of CITR’s
December 1991 Shindig competition.
They playedat Lollapalooza. They've
opened for Pearl Jam, Buffalo Tom
and Fishbone. They’re Canadians,

 

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they’re from Chilliwack- they’re...
Mystery Machine.

Mystery Machine has just
released its first full length album on
Nettwerk. Glazed is a great start for

 

lyrics like I met her up on the zamboni/
I asked her out for some spumoni] And
just when things were going swell/ They
traded me to the AHL, how can you go
wrong?

The only thing that would
concern me would be if the record
weren’ta parody (butitis). Consider
ita38-minute odeto hockey violence,
Saskatchewan, beer, and
masturbation. Definitely a pick o’ the
month. It’s hilarious.

 

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avery promising band. It has a lower
budget feel which only serves to
enhance the band’s sound. If the
production was too slick it wouldn’t
stand out as much.

 

Mystery Machine

Glazed

Nettwerk

reviewed by Byrun Stedman

 

The band sounds like Sonic
Youth at times on songs like
“Everyone's Alright” ard “Ride”. The
album’s opening song, “Shaky
Ground”, can currently be heard on
COAST 1040, and isa great example
of Mystery Machine’s sonic
craftsmanship; they use dissonance
tastefully and creatively, and are not
afraid to use vocal harmonies.

Thebands weakest pointis their
lyrics, but in light of the music style-
it doesn’t really matter.

Glazed is a good first album
from a band that deserves to have
received thecontract to make it. Next
time you are ina music store and are
faced with the dilemma of buying a
good “alternative ” album, pick up
Mystery Machine.

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