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EGGSTeen Beat 96 Exploder CD/2xLP (Teen Beat...
...Depth Five Rate Six was a collection of (similarly) good, (slightly) off-balance, (very) rocking individual songs, Teen Beat 96 Exploder is that rarity of rarities, an album that you'll have to listen to AS an album. There are superb, symphonic pop songs--we'll get to them shortly, don't worry--but they fade, at first, before the brightly ridiculous concept of Exploder as a whole--it's got an intro ("Eggs Teen Beat 96 Exploder Go!"), an outro ("Eggs Teen Beat 96 Exploder Bye Bye"-- the same minute-long set of pounded-out chords as the intro...
...song, another one of Beaujon's studies in extended teenage self-hatred: it's hard to remember how the lyrics go, because they're so deadon that they're painful to hear. I'd say that "Saturday's Cool" was the true "Day in the Life" for the hip teens of the '90s, but it might be truer--and more embarrassing--to say that, with all its self-obsession, its orchestration and its segment-by-segment squeals and whispers, it's a '90s "Bohemian Rhapsody." And if THAT doesn't make you run out and purchase Teen Beat 96 Exploder...
Samaritans 247-0220, 247-8050 (teen hot-line...
Another tool for which lawmakers are reaching to control crime before it happens is teen curfews. Two dozen cities have adopted them, many in the past year. This month Florida's attorney general will push the legislature for a statewide curfew aimed at everyone younger than 18. The city of Tampa got a jump on that last week when it opted for an 11 p.m. curfew for youths 16 or younger, with an extension to midnight on weekends. It is the parents who get punished -- with a warning, the first time their kids are caught. For subsequent offenses, the penalties...