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The Other Press

November 25, 1982

‘Albums Reviewed!

by Dan Hiiborn . What is it going to take to have the local radio industry

“realize that there is a whole plethora of underground bands in Vancouver produc- ing records and selling-out concerts underneath their stuffy little noses?

The most recent of these undergtfound records, ‘‘Born Free,’ by Los Popularos, is a great little, self-produced effort with more than one tune that could well be the local hit needed to wake up those bleary-eyed old men and women who refuse to lis- ten to anything but establish- ed bands or new ones that sound like the old ones.

For those who don’t know, Los Popularos were formed two years ago when it app- eared that the underground scene in Vancouver was go- ing to stagnate from lack of new blood. Most of the bands at the time either split up or changed personnel sev-

eral times and out of it all was formed Los Radicos Pop- ularos, featuring Bill Shirt from Active Dog; Zippy Pin- head from San Francisco’s The Dils’; Buck Cherry from The Modernettes; and Tony Bardach and Dash Hamm from the most popular new music group in town, The Pointed Sticks. The idea be- hind forming the band was that if they were the best the underground offered, then stardom would soon follow. Six disappointing months lat- er, the band dropped Radi- cos from their name and soon after that, Cherry left to re- start his old band.

“‘Born Free’’ is the second record from the band and their best. The biggest sur- prise is that they left ‘‘The Formula,”’ a hit this summer on the UBC radio station, and one of my favourite songs, off the release. How- ever, two songs have a parti- cular potential for airplay:

““Get Out of Your House,”’ and ‘‘Out on the Frontier.’’ The other two songs, ‘‘Can’t Come Back,’’ and ‘‘Don’t Say It,’’ are also good songs but the band plays other songs in concert that are bet- tern

Shirt and Bergman have progressed a long way from when they wrote ‘‘La Haci- enda’’ for Bud Luxford’s first compilation album and the production is cleaner than their first single ‘‘ Working Girls/Mystery To Myself.”” What this band needs now is more people to hear its record because the music is better than most of the disco stuff the radio stations consi- der ‘“‘new music.”’

Don’t expect to be able to find this record in just any record store beyond Bound- ary Road, either: I, mean, let's be realistic, would you buy a record from a band you hadn't heard of?

Creepshow

by Brian Pharez

A friend told me Creepshow was lousy. That was his opin- ion. I liked it. He doesn’t eare for horror-flicks. I do.

Creepshow is a collection of short steries taken from a comic book. At least, the ani- mation between stories sug- gested that they were. Some of the stories aren’t as scary

as they are gory;others scar- ier than gory. I don’t scare easily, but a couple of scenes made me jump.

I admit it isn’t the best mov- ie around town, but, again, that’t opinion. If your thing is horror-flicks, see Creep- show.

)MMMMM ....poetry

py Ian Hunter

Anyone who has ever read a poem is a poet. Although there are many poets in this world, it can be argued that few of them are of any worth.

We all like to write trite, self-indulgent poetry that means much to us when we write it, but, for people read- ing those poems, the effect may be similar to that of eat- ing a large bowl of frozen porridge - one just can’t stomach it.

Poetry, however, can also be the most effective and important expression of hu- man thought and feeling pos- sible. A four-line poem can make (and has made), more of an impression than a novel or essay on the same subject.

Poetry is also very subject- ive in that one person’s ex- pressive insight might be perverted prose to another.

Although poetry is not often profitable to publish, there are a surprising amount of are a surprising number of poetry anthologies published in Canada, with each aca- demic institution having at least one (Douglas College has two: The Otherthan Re- view, published by the Other Publications Society, and Pearls, a student anthol-

ogy from Creative Writing students at this College.)

Pearls 73 has just come out with its unusual assortment

of poems and prose, ‘oul

{of cliche. Subjects one would

not usually think of being in what is basically a college creative writing publication, are dealt with in some depth, such as abortion, rape, and death. This may not be to everyone's liking.

This is good; a smile is often not the most appro-

priate response to a powerful poem.

John Ong and co-editor, Kathyrn Warner, put the an- thology together with contri- butions from about fifteen DC creative writing stu- dents.

Pat Jones is one of the more notable poets in the book. With Liz, she _ follows the downward fall of a friend

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