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...strum not unlike the one perfected by college-radio heroes Sebadoh (whose "Brand New Love" the knowing lyrics quote). "Exit Flagger" rides a pushmepullyou-like hook to the chorus, where it suddenly gains a kick more powerful than your average well-trained racehorse (About those titles: main guy Robert Pollard has said that before recording sessions, the band makes up a long list of weird titles, then tires to write a song to match each one. I'll believe that...
...Pushmepullyou," if you didn't know, is a two-headed animal from the Dr. Doolittle stories; the Doctor is less a weird joke than a serious point of reference for GBV's achievements. Like the miraculous veterinarian, GBV main guy Robert Pollard has a respect for the diverse beasts of the rock and roll jungle that lets him get them to do his bidding. Like Dr. Doolittle, Pollard can convince animals that would normally be at each other's throats--a two-chord, thumping stomp, say, and its natural enemy, a spiraling, self-involved vocal line--to team...
Until this year, Pollard & Co. hadn't played a live show since 1987 (they've now played three); all of their previous records have been on labels that are to the big, well-known independents (Matador, Sub Pop) about as GBV's hometown, Dayton, Ohio is to New York City. With Vampire they've moved up to the level of Cleveland. (Literally: Scat Records is based there.) This is the first GBV release there's a good chance of finding in a non-exceptional record store: the CD version includes twice as much music, since the last half...
...witted artist and Holocaust survivor (who doesn't): George Ziad, an old graduate school friend who is now a militant Palistinian living on the West bank; Jinx Possesski, Pipik's Polish nurse and girlfriend (who is a recovering anti-Semite enrolled in Pipik's Anti-Semites Anonymous) and Jonathan Pollard, the American convicted of spying for Israel...
Once in office, Clinton, as a gesture of goodwill to the Jewish community in which he enjoys such wide support, should issue a pardon on behalf of Jonathan Pollard. Bush intervened to assist Weinberger--a man who called for undue harshness against Pollard. Clinton should turn around and pardon Pollard--a target of unfair treatment at the hands of a "patriot" who wasn't so clean himself...