~ September 29, 1986. Page 6. The Other Press ALPHAVILLE “Afternoons in Utopia” I must say, I am impressed! This is a wonderful album which recalls their first work, “Forever Young”. Throughout this latest offering, Alphaville skillfully mixes melodic vocal harmonies with (what sounds like) excellent instrumental backup. Listening to the optimistic brass section on “Jerusalem”, it seem- irrelevant that there is a 99.9% chance that they are entirely digital. Highlights are the punchy night- club hit, “Dance With Me”, which is reminiscent of “Jo Germany with Love” from their first album, which _ appears as an outpouring of hope for a world devoid of such things, -and the title track, “Afternoons in Utopia”. This is equally optimistic, but in a slower more relaxed vein, not quite a ‘steamy’ slow song, but it sounds great! Other notables are “Sensations”, “The Voyager’, and the soul influenced “Lady Bright’. Suprisingly, until the release of “Dance With Me”, very few people had any idea that the band even ex- isted, and I had found only three or four diehard fans (I count myself in this group). Their first album was released in Canada two years ago, with very fittle fanfare, although they were quite popular in their homeland of West Germany. The video for “Big in Japan” did recieve some. ex- posure through MuchMusic and ‘A Book and a Record this was the catch for the now avid Canadian followers of the group. Buy one of their albums, or buy both, but make some attempt to ex- pose yourself to a __ brilliantly talented band such as this. “Rebel” - Pepe Moreno He might as well have called this ‘Rock-a-Billies and Punks vs. Cops and Skinheads in New York gang wars in the year 2002’. It seems that after the big civil war of the 1990’s, repressive rule became the norm, and gangs inhabit and rule New York City, while fighting the Skin- heads, an organized army of obnoxious, cannibalistic and obvi- ously bald evil-doers whose leader is the effeminate and sadistic Doll. He himself is a minion of the Sanitation Police who _ gather young, healthy specimens to parti- cipate in The Games, which are not dwelt upon, but one can _ only wonder...anyway, Doll’s Skin- heads play Wehrmacht SS to the Sanitation Police’s Gestapo, so you can guess at the tone of the book. It bears close ties to the Mad Max/ Road Warrior genre and would be of vital interest to anyone involved in playing “Car Wars” or “Sunday Driver”. Generally, this book has second rate art, unlikely premises, a composition of utter trash. I loved every page of it. By Dean MacPherson OOKS TAPF TAPES REC D’S POSTE We Will Special Order... 646 Columbia Street, New Westminster, B.C. 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