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Daily Nebraskan
Thursday,, September 19, 1935
New Burton LP technologically prime
but lacks danceability, lyric quality
three times the price of the last Burton Burton proves he still is unmatched
recordirut session, shows up on this in his mastery of metaphors,
record. There's more impact in the The best song by far on "I Heard
Woody Allen once said that only drums, more bite in the guitars, and That is ' Bum licker, an autobiogra
By Mike Grant
Staff Reporter
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Groucho Marx made life worth living.
He should have added "and the latest
Charlie Burton album." Forget the arms
talks, Pete Rose's career-hit record,
and the Madonna-Sean Penn marriage.
Any time Burton has a new release all
other news takes a back seat.
Record Review
When I heard cuts from Charlie Bur
ton and the Hiccups' latest disc, "I
Heard That," on my car radio, I put the
pedal to the metal and risked a speed
ing ticket to get my hands on a copy of
the log-awaited record.
On the way home, I examined the
cover of the album at each stop light.
The colorful album jacket itself is a
treat. Just seeing lead singer Burton,
guitarist Phil Shoemaker, drummer
Dave Robel, and bassist Tom Rierden
dressed up in dapper tuxes might be
worth the price of the album.
The sound on "I Heard That" is top
drawer.
Before, listening to a Burton record
was like reading a good book through a
cheesecloth. Everything from the drums
to Burton's voice sounded "muffled."
But studio mastering, which accord
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Burton's voice has added nuance. One phical tune about Burton's deceased
wonders if the next Burton record will parents. It's both bittersweet and com
be on compact disc. ical and shows Burton's vocals at his
But no record is made for its album best. I would have never expected any-
cover or for it's technical quality. It's thing like poignancy from the man who
the songs that count. gave us "I, 41 Don't Care."
From the opening tune "Not Too Burton and the Hiccups have made it
Much in Common (Anymore)" to the no secret that they expect this album to
closing "Nanook of the North" there is give them the national recognition they
a strong country feel to the record. deserve. If it doesn't, nothing will.
Lead guitarist Shoemaker sounds Although the recording qualitv is
like he has been hanging around with
Johnny Cash for the past year, which
isn't at all bad. Indeed, songs like "All
Time Low" and the cajun-influenced
"The '0' Song" are good enough to play
on radio station WOW.
"I Heard That" is a familiar collec
.tion of no-holds-barred raucous rock 'n'
roll songs like "Dead Giveaway" to
"Hungry for Love," which take balla
deering to the limits of tongue-in-cheek.
All these songs are backed up
by Shoemaker's searing guitar solos.
One standout, "Roadkill," is nothing
less than a gross tune about our
animal friends along highways and
byways who are victims of hit and run.
It belongs, for better or worse, on the
Dr. Demento show.
"Another Vietnam" is another
straight-out rocker with lyrics like
"Was that you or Madame Nhu At our
backyard BBQ It reminds me of your
daytime dramas you there, in you
black pajamas!"
great, and songs like "Bum Ticker" and
"Dead Giveaway" are as good as it gets
in Nebraska, or anywhere else, for that
matter, the album seems harder to
really get into than their other albums.
It's ironic that this, the most techno
logically perfect of Burton's album's
also is the least dancable and with the
least amount of memorable lyrics or
guitar riffs.
Songs like "Creatures of Habit" and
"Nanook of the North" come off as filler
material. Rockers from the group's
repetoire like "Jezebel" and "Sanitary
Landfill" would have served the album
much better.
Don't get me wrong, I would still
recommend this album on Burton's
songs and Dave Roebel's guitar action
alone.
It just seems that the technical
quality of the album got more attention
than the lyrics and the instrumentals,
which usually makes any Burton record
worth the wait.
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to classical music. I guess I got it from
a kind of osmosis from the crib," Bur
ton said. "I like writing song-poems
with a literary bent."
"So far, Burton said response to the
new album is slow.
"It's too early to tell," Burton said.
"We've sent out about 500 copies to
critics and selected distributors around
the country. A record is new for one to
twelve months. In the meantime, we're
spreading the word."
"We sometimes get tired of playing
the same places," Burton said. "And
I'm tired of being a southeastern Nebra
ska phenomenainstitution. But I guess
there are no small parts, only small
actors."
In a Magazine of the Midlands cover
story, rock critic Roger Catlin said that
Bob Dylan had heard Burton's song,
"Breathe For me, Presley" and told an
interviewer the song "really gets me."
"It makes me feel okay he likes the
song," Burton said, "but I don't have
any illusions. I can't eat on it. Right
now I'm the idol of a half dozen and
that's it."
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