The Orher Press

September 29, 1986. Page 5.

 

 

 

| The Sputnik Trilogy

SIGUE SIGUE SPUTNIK
_ “Love Missle F1-11 (12’)”
~ “21st Century Boy (12’)”

: “Flaunt It (LP)”

(EMI Records)

“From the 21st century we present

|. the Sth generation of rock and roll.

_ Starring: Martin, Tony, Neal, Chris,
_ Ray, Yavine Ya Ya ya ya ya...”

The Sputnik Trilogy, ah..what
complete decadence it is, how dan-
cable it is, how mindless it is, how
_ Stupid it is.

Who (or what) is Sigue Sigue
Sputnik? The most commercial,
pretensious (I hate that word, it
comes up far to often when refering
to music), hyped and generaly silly
band - Oh yes, I forgot to say rich.
After all Capitol EMI only paid £4
million for the rights to the songs
“Love Missile FI-11” and “2Ist
Century Boy’, and their associated
flip sides. Not only that but the
space between the tracks on_ the

   

album are filled with commercials!
Real commercials! Commercials for
hair care, magazines and so on. I
couldn’t believe my ears.

The first single “Love Missile FI-
11”, featured in the movey “Ferris
Bueler’s Day Off’, is the textbook
example of dance song - infectious
beat, good at loud volume, mind-
less lyrics and so on. I still like this
song, no matter what anybody says.
I quite enjoy hearing Martin
Degville’s vocals sent spining this
way and that under the control of
effects mistress Yana Ya Ya.

The second release was the single

- “21st Century Boy”. That’s funny, it

sounds the same as the last single!
In fact a lot of this song is practicly
identical with it’s older brother
(should I say twin?). The drum
tracks are the same and some of the
phrases are repeated. This song
however features futuristic ads,
breaks in the song where ads from
the 1990’s are played (“It’s the

The dew clings to’ the roses in the meadow

The eagles fly upward, their wings brushing the sky
The sun paints a pastel picture on the canvas clouds
The melody of a cricket violin floats carefree in the air

The butterflies waltz to the swallow’s Strauss

And the blue Danube swims by, giving harmony to Heaven
A careless sky has dropped it’s rainbow in the garden

A buzz of bees steal a wealth of nectar from a daisy

Atlas has no burden in supporting this world

Where Pegasus soars to the summit of some great mountain
_ And unicorns gently nuzzle a creamy white foal

Their golden manes dancing with the summer breeze

Peter Pan and Tinkerbell chase an elusive shadow
Will E.T. ever call home, he doesn’t want to leave
Heaven here on earth, Xanadu, and Eden to

Just look out your window and you will find

- Just take a look, you’ve got a Heaven in your mind -

By Angela Dunn
Medicine Hat, Alberta

Human League Returns

HUMAN LEAGUE
“Crash”

(Virgin, U.K.)

It’s been nearly two years since
Human League released a single
over here in Canada, with the ex-
ception, of course, of the Human
League vocalist, Philip Oakey, and
' the disco king, producer Giorgio

Moroder, that produced three hit
U.K. singles.

The new album is somewhat of a

dissapointment, what with © the

- band trying very hard to sound
_ ‘American’ (bad choice). The very

best track on the new album is a ten-
der love ballad called, ironically,
“Human”, a song that asks that .asks
a lover to forgive a young man’s
mistakes because he is only human.

“Money” deals with the idea that
we can live better without someone
else’s money and that the best
things in life actually are free,
money only brings lonliness.

The rest of the album is a vain
attempt to recapture the special
magic they had with their smash
debut album, “Dare”, and although
it tries hard to match their best ef-
fort, it fails with some of the tracks

Hamilton Hotel, the first lunar
hotel.”). Neat, but not for long.

When the album, “Flaunt It’ was
released, I rushed downtown to
pick it up. With trembling fingers I
placed the record on the turntable,
lowered the needle, prepared
myself for at least an _ interesting
time. Do you know what anticlimax
means, I do now. As I should have
guessed, it all sounds the same, like
one big song. The one orginal song
on the album is “Atari Baby’, a

CP osty Siom All the World

Heaven’s Where You Find It

Other ENTERTAINMENT

 

slower but

unfortunately it
sounds rather like a Billy Idol song,
the name of which eludes me at the
moment. Sure it’s OK dance music,

song,

but now only the commercials
between the songs bring me back to
this album. We may be seeing more
singles from this band, but I
wouldn’t count on another album. I
wouldn’t buy this album, but
borrow it from a friend and tape it, I
wish I had...

By Jeff House

Lament For a Drowning Bottle

Twice it screams before the water embraces it.

The ripples of your love calls to kindred,

yet none hear, but I, whose ear hears only your voice.

Memories lacerate me with visions like shattered glass
twisting their way into the darkest pools of my brain.

An unasked, unanswered question runs through my blood,
whose reply springs savagely, up from waters,
to play Wagnarian Waltz’s behind the curtain of

my cerebral stage.

Still the question festers unasked and all I can do is

crouch here watching my life,

away,

faraway,

But still quite near.

The blade of your love is cleaving
crimson ravines deep into my skull.

of the bottle,
Rippling,
Rippling,
then gone.

Andrew Lucas
Winfield, B.C.

following the ripples

While my tears echo cries

 

being just stupid.

Although the album isn’t nearly
as interesting and impressionable as
“Dare” and “Fascination” it is far
better than their dismal album,
“Hysteria” of a couple years back,
and “Crash” is a hell of a lot better
than a lot of the albums we’re get-

ting from bands lately. With the ex-
citement comes hysteria and the
waiting will probably make “Crash”
a smash U.K. hit. Will the single
“Human” cause the same reaction
over here that it’s causing over
there? Most likely. :
Reviewed by Tory