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...Sire) by the Replacements: This is the first major-label outing for the group that holds the world record for playing the most consecutive concerts without stopping to sober up. It sounds like the boys laid off the hard stuff when they made this disc, and their new-found and short-lived temperance allows them to write excellent songs which use Paul Westerberg's off-key voice to its fullest potential. But the Replacements still know how to have fun: as of recent live gigs, guitarist Bob Stinson has been playing encores nude. Help support these guys' habit...
...history is more cryptic than that of Noah Cross (John Huston in Chinatown), ruthless Los Angeles pioneer, father to his own granddaughter and possible sire of Elsa Bannister (Rita Hayworth in The Lady from Shanghai). He is the omnipotent wizard in Thomson's sinister Oz, an America whose center is located in Bedford Falls, Neb. It is a mythical place of lost innocence and the home of George Bailey, who watches SAC bombers over the cornfields of his youth and concludes that "America is just a story of its men and women going from happiness to stoicism...
...PRETENDERS: LEARNING TO CRAWL (Sire). Music for dancing along the jagged edge...
...Ramones: Too Tough to Die (Sire). These four unreconstructed New York City punks have been around so long it would be reasonable to assume they would need a breather. No way. This new record is heady evidence that the band has flourished during a career that began before the Sex Pistols and has survived what seems to be virtually mandatory punk burnout. They are as hot as ever, though, and still laying into those guitar chords like hardhats working rivet guns. They get occasional instrumental help-Jerry Harrison of Talking Heads turns a fine hand to synthesizers...
Talking Heads: Speaking in Tongues (Sire). SoHo soul and uptown rhythm: nobody mixes it up better...