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Alternative band releases mixed album By Bryan Peterson Staff Reporter Oak Ridge, Tenn., has the dubi ous honor of giving America both the atomic bomb and the band Jesus Chrysler. Jesus Chrysler has released “This Year’s Savior,” a 13-song album which has a strange mixture of humor and seriousness. Some lyrics from “Boy We’re Having Fun” provide an example: “Reagan screws the Latins/ Russians screw themselves/ We just want to rock ‘n’ roll/ They all can go to hell.” Jesus Chrysler is not quite a punk or hardcore band, but it is carried on “hardcore” label Toxic Shock and probably plays in gigs with other, less-known punk bands as opening acts. Jesus Chrysler plays slower than most punk bands, but it uses the same song structures. The album jams at both 33 and 45 rpm. The band embraces many para doxes, so it’s hard to describe the album. Jesus Chrysler just doesn’t quite fit into any category. The music lingers somewhere in be tween punk and radio rock. Radio stations in other states might play Jesus Chrysler. But the group probably doesn’t get aired on Nebraska stations because it doesn’tsound like any of the bands heard on special “alternative hours.” The band is alternative but not alternative enough for special time slots, it seems. Jesus Chrysler seems frustrated with itself. In “I Want to Be,” vo calist Brett Hammond sings: “I want to make a fun place to live/1 want to form the perfect gov ernment/ I want to make peace be tween races/1 want something that can’t be done.” The frustration is never really resolved - it is laughed at instead. Jesus Chrysler is as serious on “Some Kind of Booger” as it is weird on “Shabada Habada.” The album cover is filled with clipart in a Winston Smith style, so it looks like many releases from Al ternative Tentacles Records. The only thing approaching a theme is a series of jabs at the hy pocrisy and money-making of cer tain TV preachers whom we all know and love. The way the world has been going, we just might need a new savior every year. “I’ll say what I want only be cause I say it from within.” he th tin album review Bronson’s latest movie called a piece of trash William: I thought I was in a ‘70’s nightmare. — Michael: You were. I think Golan Globus Productions dug this out of some dark, cobwebby, vault and said, “Wow, we forgot all about this Bron son movie! Cool!” W: In case it’s not obvious, we hated “Messenger of Death,” the “new” Charles Bronson movie. M: Don’t be fooled by the title. This is not a Halloween movie. This is not a funny movie. This is not a “feel good” movie. This is a dumb movie. W: Two shadowed hicks in cow boy boots brutally massacre a family. Why? It has something to do with blood atonement, Mormon splinter Spend Halloween at the Zoo With Rounder Recording Artists THE INCREDIBLE CASUALS From New England, this trio’s guitar pop has been described as a cross between the Beatles, the Beach Boys and Elvis Costello. Their album is re viewed in the current issue of Rolling Stone. A guaranteed good time! Halloween Night, 9-1, $3 at the door C$2 if in costume) Free Zoo Bar T Shlrts for the Six Best Costumes. j THE ZOO BAR, 136 N. 14th St. | $.50 OFF • Any pizza 475-6363! NAME__ I ADDRESS_J DATE_j EXPIRES 12-2S-M "s'T.oooffI Any Pizza Ordarad 11 a.m.-4 p.m. 475-6363! Name_ | ADDRESS_| DATE_ a groups, corporate greed and, of course, superman Charles Bronson, who solves it all. “Messenger of Death” has “littlc-guy-against-the evil-big-world-in-the-late-TO’s” written all over it. M: The best part is who Charles Bronson portrays in this piece of worthless trash. He is Garrett Smith, hardnosc reporter for the Denver Tribune who carries a gun and will do anything for a story, by gawd. Look out, Clark Kent. W: Look out, all you stereotypical Charles Bronson movie types. But sorry, ladies, there’s nothing there for you. Charles is a man with a mission, and that doesn’t include romance. M; No doubt. No matter how many beautiful babes surround the man, he just steps away with a grunt. Clint Eastwood would have gone nuts in the bedroom in this movie. W: Clint Eastwood would never have starred in this movie. He would never have even considered it. Clint Eastwood has belter things to do. I had Jorn Bruce Daily Nebraskan better things to do, too, like checking my watch every five minutes to see when the torture would be over. M: It’s hard to believe something like this would be released to the public. I’ll bet all the other three people in the theater were mad, too. When a movie takes a Beverly Hill billy war, turns it into a feud between members of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and then throws little Charles in with his blazing pea-shooter, there’s a problem. W: No kidding. I knew who the ; real villain was before the movie was even half over, and I was right. You j know I was. ivi. i Know', l Know, ueatn wisn movies were academy aw'ard winners compared to this. I could never be lieve Charles Bronson could write a grammatically correct sentence, let alone a news story as a reporter. W: Movies like “Death Wish” and “Messenger of Death” were fine in the 70’s. But they just don’t fit in today, un less it’s late n ight on H BO or at your grandma’s when you’re bored. M: I’d make my grandma change the channel to “Geraldo Rivera’s World of Satanism” before I’d watch this junk with her. W: Arc you kidding? I’d rather be locked in a cage with Geraldo Rivera than watch “Death” again. Do your self a favor and demand your money back! M: Or spend it on pickle cards instead. Michael Deeds is a junior news-editorial major; William Rudolph Is a sophomore English major INTRODUCINGI Nonfat Frozen Yogurt! with No Cholesterol! (\ Can’t Believe It sN \ YOGURT! 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