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Well, in these days of Hying V's and Strats, wood sounds good. "Hammering Heart," the best song on the disk, starts with Harvie riff, and builds with a viscous background strum, drummer Paul Tyagi's fast snare, bassist Justin Currie's hoarse but melodie shout and leaves you at the end with what is both powerful and complex. Similarly, "I Was Here" has a tremendous acoustic guitar solo and "Deceive Yourself" some treacherously lovely harmonies...
Note: Though probably not intentionally, the Adventures have two links to the Akron, Ohio band Devo: the drummer's name is Spud, and the hats worn on the cover look remarkably like those on the cover of Freedom of Choice...
...record itself is permeated with gross misuse and abuse of synthesizers. The fervent pounding of ex-drummer Topper Headon has been replaced on many tracks by ineptly programmed drum machines. The rhythm tracks as a whole are little more than another inept rehash of mainstream British synth-pop. Even Strummer's sharp-edged guitar which figured so prominently on the band's early works, has lost its character, now grinding like a Husker Du album played into a feather pillow. It is generally accepted that Strummer has no vocal talent, and this record provides precious little evidence to the contrary...
...both domestic (Daryl Hall) and imported (Pete Townshend, Ringo Starr). Van Zandt's original concept for a single and a dance remix has become a mini-LP of material. Among the tracks: a coruscating jazz version of Sun City by Davis, Keyboardist Herbie Hancock, Bass Player Ron Carter and Drummer Tony Williams; a free-flowing political, rhythmic stream of consciousness by Ray Barretto, Peter Wolf, Rapper Grandmaster Melle Mel and Soweto's Malopoets; and a meditation by Progressive Rock Wizard Peter Gabriel...
Heir presumptive to Jean--Jacques Beneix's Diva and Susan Seidelman's Desperately Seeking Susan, After Hours meanders along to the beat of a surrealistic cinematographic drummer by photography director Michael Ballhaus, who captures that side of New York that Mayor Koch hopes we don't see. Not that Soho after hours doesn't look like an interesting spot, offering the prospective tourist an endless range of entertainment possibilities, ranging from punk rock clubs decorated in a nouveau underground garage to slimy bars frequented by leather and spike clad homosexual bikers. But this is not the kind of thing...