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Welcome to the modern world!
If MTV and “modern rock”
radio stations have any say in the
matter, this is the type of music
you’re going to be hearing a lot
of - so you’d better get used to it.
Actually it’s not all that bad.
On their first two albums, the
Seagulls have crafted a unique
and innovative hi-tech sound that
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could make them prototypes of
the “80’s sound” in popular
music.
Are these four lads from Liver
pool the Beatles of the ’Bo’s?
Nahhh, not quite, but they are
capable of producing notable vi
sionary pop songs which may
define the music of the future.
As evidenced by the album
cover artwork, the image of the
band (to be exact, Mike Score’s
hairstyle), and the overall sound
of the band, A Flock of Seagulls
have no identity problems, they
are hi-tech music personified.
Their latest album Listen
sounds like a luded down version
of their dynamic debut LP. The
energy is still all there, it’s just
slowed down a bit into mid
tempo tunes that blend melodic
vocals and synthesizers with a
synthetic dance beat.
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By Mike Markle
Side one opens up with the
blockbuster tunes all in a row
Wishing (If I Had a Photograph
of You), Nightmare and Transfer
Affection which are easily the
most humable and danceable
tunes on the album.
Wishing has got to be one of the
most melotic radio tunes heard
during the wild summer of ’B3
with the vocals and lush syn
thesizers of lead singer Mike
Score harmonizing better than the
Beach Boys on a sunny
afternoon.
Nightmares captivates the listener
with a hypnotic chorus and
pulsating beat that borders on
subliminal seduction while
Transfer Affection is equally en-
‘Vacation’ Lampoon’s best
ince ‘An
A movie review
by Don Strausburger
What do you get when you
combine the comedic talents of
Chevy Chase, Beverly D’Angelo,
Imogene Coca, and John Candy
with the directing skills of Harold
Ramis?
In the case of National Lam
poon’s Vacation, you get over
ninety minutes of craziness not
encountered in a theatre since
that group’s hit Animal House.
From the opening scene with
Eugene Levy of Second City TV
fame, as a car salesman selling
the wrong car, to the grand ar
rival at a closed amusement park,
the movie was loaded with
laughs.
Vacation opens in the home of
a typical middle class family,
headed by the film’s bumbling
star, Chevy Chase. After buying a
car he doesn’t really want, he
becomes constantly indecisive ex-
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chanting, sounding like a slowed
_down version of Space-Age Love
Song.
All is not well in techno-land,
however. The space-age whiz kids
sometimes overindulge in various
production gimmickry which
tends to clutter up the tunes and
alienate the listener.
The special-effects tour-de-force
on Electrics gets annoying after
awhile and makes the song barely
listenable. Over the Border is a
real mindbender with esoteric
vocals and spacey synthesizer riffs
that bring to mind the soundtrack
of a Roger Corman sci-fi film
while The Fall drones on with a
repetitious chorus that sounds like
the needle got stuck.
Listen is a flawed album,
sometimes bogged down by space
age excesses, but the innovative
highlights of the album: Wishing,
Nightmares, and Transfer Affec
tions, make it worth your time.
mal House’
cept for reaching his ultimate goal
a family vacation to Wally
World, an amusement park in
California.
The trip gets off to a rocky
start as the luggage on top of the
car is stripped off by the garage
door and the children complain
constantly.
To give the film appeal, the
script calls for Chase to bump in
to super-model Christie Brinkley,
leaving him as much concerned
with finding her as continuing the
family journey.
The film plays on Chase’s com
ic fashion of losing control and
temper as he tries to prevent
anything from standing in the
way of a successful family
vacation.
John Candy also of Second
City TV fame turns his best per
formance to date in this film and
acts as a perfect complement op
posite Chase.
Lampoon’s Vacation is clearly
the best production put forth by
the crew’s regulars since Animal
House. The action is rapidly
paced and the humor equal to the
task.
Harold Ramis, best known for
co-starring in and directing
Stripes with Bill Murray, has
solidified his position as one of
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The cast is impressive in that d
they were funny individually as I
well as in ensemble situations. .
Beverly D’Angelo has finally f
proven that she can act in g
something other than a B-movie.
Vacation is a must for National •§
Lampoon fans and inviting for m
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