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...Nowell who first introduced his bandmates to ska and reggae, when the trio were middle-class, punk-rock-worshipping youngsters growing up in Long Beach, California. They formed a band in 1988, and when clubs refused to book their strange-sounding hybrid act, they founded their own label, Skunk Records, just so they could proudly tell clubs they were "Skunk Records recording artists...
...SKUNK ANANSIE Paranoid & Sunburnt (Epic/One Little Indian). This British quartet, one of the few hard-rock bands fronted by a black woman, boasts a scaldingly bold sound, mixing chunks of punk, bits of R. and B. and even a dash of gospel in its joyously fierce debut album...
...Lick of Fury" also uses a blending of crude animation with real-life footage, this time not of aging potheads but of freakishly costumed neighbors. Skunk Guy (Christian Brown) gives an admittedly virtuoso performance as the local loser--this in a whole neighborhood of them--who can't stop licking himself...
...flash-back memory and a courageous street-crossing help Skunk Guy learn to stop drooling all over the place, but somehow it doesn't really matter. The inventive costumes (especially a certain breast-squeezing machine and a Torah-reading monkey-device) keep the 14 minute short just barely above water...
...punk songs about turning tricks, picking scabs and hating one's parents, which is expected to be one of the biggest-selling CDs of the year. Two other new punk albums,...And Out Come the Wolves by the Berkeley band Rancid, and Paranoid & Sunburnt, from the British group Skunk Anansie, are already in stores. The Seattle punk band Hole--whose leader, Courtney Love, is one of the best lyricists in rock (and the widow of Kurt Cobain of Nirvana)--has just come out with a CD titled Ask for It, featuring live material from the band's early days...