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...Patriots (who couldn't beat a local Pop Warner team) were suddenly the favorites. There's no way the Oilers could protect their quarterback against New England's swarming pass rush with an offensive lineman missing...
GUIDED BY VOICES Vampire on Titus CD/LP (Scat) It's tempting to write that GBV has had "eight years to perfect their craft," but the truth is that they've been great from the start. The basic GBV sound is 1967 British pop filtered through basement-tape-recorder grime, and within its confines they're the best, and the most versatile, there is. Each of their seven albums includes vocal harmonies from Revolverera Beatles, scattered outbreaks of pure punk, flat despair, soaring hopes, noises like ovens exploding (immediately followed by familiar hooks), wisps of pot smoke over seaswell chords...
...correctly take their tunefulness for granted--the effort goes into making the songs messy: writing clever-odd lyrics, playing with AM radio-quality sound, or with cheap, half-broken microphones--anything that will throw their "pop" talents into sharper relief. "Marchers in Orange," on this new record, lasts about a minute and has no guitars, just an accordion and a bass: the vocal melody does all the work. "Gleaner (The Deeds of Fertile Jim)" uses a deadpan strum not unlike the one perfected by college-radio heroes Sebadoh (whose "Brand New Love" the knowing lyrics quote). "Exit Flagger" rides...
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...
TOMMY KEENE The Real Underground CD (Alias) If, on the other hand, the sound you love is the chiming, clean-lined American guitar-pop of the early eighties--pop without pretension, dissonance, extraneous noises, growls or screams; pop like REM's third record, Big Star's first, Let's Active's first three, or the few good Posies songs--Tommy Keene is where to start looking. People who do that sort of thing for a living have been scratching their heads for years about why this man has never had a hit (too pure? no sex appeal? no weird hats...