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...amusement item: the burning guitarwork and unstoppable rhythms that mark classicssuch as the Cantay's "Pipeline" and the Surfaris'"Wipeout" (check out those killer bongos!) serveas the backbone for this disc. The two tunes bysurf-guitar master Dick Dale are predictablystrong, as Dale deftly powers his way through histrademark, riff-based style...
...debasement that it signifies." Rebutting the argument that the ditty's commercial intent moots its artistic value, Souter playfully enlists Samuel Johnson: " 'No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.' " Finally, the court's Latin scholar scores head-banger points for using the phrase "opening bass riff" without quotation marks...
...Prude, arranged into two groups of three (on the vinyl version, that means side one and side two): song one is a long, gradually building, apprehensive work; song two is short, light, vocal-oriented, and witty; song three is the emotional punchline, with a memorable chorus and a slow riff to match. The first song on side two, called "ooo," includes both the sounds of hesitant fingers on a guitar neck and a periodic irruption of jazzy trumpet-playing, as if to dramatize some kind of contest between cool, sleek exterior (trumpets) and internal fear or hesitancy (guitar neck sound...
...will go). And, more than anything, these songs are well-and attentively built: there's no raw punk attack. Instead the emotional depth comes from the care that each sound, each note, has obviously received. The long, long melodies on some songs (as opposed to a three-note punk riff) are further evidence of how much attention has been paid to every bit of this record, and of how much attention you will likely find yourself paying to it. The last song, "Love $ $ $"--my favorite in their current live set, where it's called "Babyface"--has retained all the staticky...
...last band Christina Billotte played in was the slightly slower, more complicated Autoclave, whose other guitarist, Mary Timony, is now headed for deserved superstardom in her Boston-based band Helium. The various parts of Autoclave's sound--the instrumental overlaps, the soulfulness, the rapid riff-changing--are now split up among the bands its ex-members have formed: Helium songs are slow and cathartic Slant 6 song are speedy and compact, and Autoclave bassist Nikki Chapman's Rastro! is noisier than either other band. It's fair to say (and it's not a diss on Helium) that Christina Billotte...