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...MART Albumed out: chain bans new Sheryl Crow release for lyrics implying it sells guns to kids...
...ANGELES: Sheryl Crow won't be able to "have some fun" at a Wal-Mart store anytime soon. The nation's largest retailer decided not to sell Crow's new album because one song implies Wal-Mart sells guns to children. "Selling a record implying behavior that is against all we stand for is something we just could not profit from," said Wal-Mart spokesman Dale Ingram. The lyrics in question, from a song called "Love is a Good Thing," read: "Watch out sister, watch out brother; Watch our children as they kill each other with a gun they bought...
This season offers an unusually full sophomore class, including singer Sheryl Crow, a fresh face three years ago. Her second album, bluntly titled Sheryl Crow and due out Sept. 24, is a sometimes amusing, mostly blah disc that may move units but doesn't move the soul. In better form is Counting Crows, whose first CD was a multiplatinum hit and a consistent delight; the band's Recovering the Satellites (Oct. 15) is a wise, worthy successor. Also, teen singer Aaliyah's second CD, One in a Million (just out), is soulfully soothing, and neo-soul performer Tricky...
Next month the Laserblast episode will take MST3K out in style, with deftly flicked allusions to, among others, Eddie Deezen ("heir to the Arnold Stang fortune"), Ram Dass, Georgia O'Keeffe, Haile Selassie, Sister Mary Elephant, Iron Eyes Cody and Roddy McDowall ("as Dr. Casabamelon"). Crow notes that "this movie was run through a highly technical process called 'tension extraction.'" And in an especially inert section of Laserblast, Servo says what might be said of any MST3K experiment: "There's a point where it stops being a movie...
...MST3K may stop being a TV show. In the last episode, Dr. Forrester announces that his funding has been cut and, before he goes off to live with his mother, he's disconnecting the satellite; Mike, Crow and Tom will drift off in space toward a rendezvous with a mysterious monolith. Back on earth, Comedy Central will air reruns till February '97. Rhino Home Video is issuing 25 MST3K shows, the first three (Cave Dwellers, The Amazing Colossal Man, Mitchell) April...