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Julian Cope has nobody to blame but himself. With his psychedelic horn-driven post-punk group The Teardrop Explodes, and on his seven subsequent solo releases, Cope has proven his ability to combine high intellectual weirdness with a razor-sharp pop sensibility. So how come the best singer/songwriter to come out of Liverpool since, say, 1962 has nothing but a half-handful of U.K. hits to show for his 13-year career? Simple: Cope seems to have no idea when he's being a genius and when he's recording pretentious dreck. Well, thank God for anthologists. Floored Genius...
UNMARRIED AND FIVE MONTHS PREGNANT, SPORTING a punk look of dyed red hair, metal bracelets and black fingernails, April Schuldt did not fit the conventional image of a high school homecoming queen. Nonetheless, she won the ) student election at Memorial High School in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, and thus seemed to have every right to the title. But school officials didn't see it that way; they denied the 17-year-old her crown and named the runner-up, pert and clean-cut Elizabeth Weld, as winner. Last week Eau Claire District superintendent Lee Hansen exposed a plot by principal Charles...
Izzy and his Ju Ju Hounds take a short detour from their retro-rock trip and generate a high-energy Social Distortion-esque vibe with the second track, "Pressure Drop," a two-and-a-half minute burst of raspy punk rock winding down to a reggae beat...
...remember having an aversion to 10,000 Maniacs when my brother first told me their name. With my sixth grader's imagination, I envisioned a screaming punk rock band whose songs my brother's booming stereo would force me to endure...
...remember having an aversion to 10,000 Maniacs when my brother first told me their name. With my sixth grader's imagination, I envisioned a screaming punk rock band whose songs my brother's booming stereo would force me to endure...