Arts & Entertainment
Debut albums
unoriginal,
unpolished
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Stardog Records
By Mark Baldridge
Senior Reporter
Wc have two rather disappointing first re
leases this week: The Veldt “Marigolds” and
The Men, self-titled.
The Veldt showed some promise in its pack
aging; the group looks like it wants to be like
Drive. And its best effort, “Willow Tree,” is a
kind of groovy post-hippy tunc. But the rest of
the album is too derivative of new wave.
It opens with “CCCP,” which sounds a little
like a 1990s version of Modem English with
harder guitar and dumb lyrics. Everything after
that, with the exception of the aforementioned
“Willow” is repetitive and simple-minded.
Lyrics like “Feel the pain again, Kill me
once again,” from “Pleasure Toy” make one
wonder how the group got anything out on LP
at all.
And in the same song there’s a bridge that
consists of the line, “It doesn’t matter,” re
pealed eight times in a row.
“It certainly doesn’t,” one wants to reply.
Matter, that is.
The vocals slipoulof the English new-wave
sound into a cool groove on “Tinsel Town” and
although the bass is pretty funky throughout
there’s not much else to say for this secondhand
Courtesy of Polyaor
The Men recently released their self-titled debut on Polydor Records.
debut. Pick up some old Flock of Seagulls
albums at a garage sale. You’ll enjoy them
more.
The Men debuts with its eponymous album
and there are a few points of light in it.
Those with an interest in the new rockabilly
(as opposed to new country and new folk)
movement may want to pick this one up, if only
for its documentary value. It seems new rock
abilly came into existence and overnight in
spired derivative “pop” versions of itself.
This is The Men. The vocals owe a lot to
Bryan Adams except on one cut, possibly the
best and certainly the most original tunc, “Where
You Found Me,” which sounds (bi/arrcly) like
Billy Joel in his melancholy days.
The Men’s lyrics vacillate between a failed
attempt at gritty southwestern surrealism and
truly original — if a little lumpy — imagery.
From “Church of Logic, Sin & Love:”
“It’s the kind of place where space explorers
could have landcd/around 1963 — when Ken
ncdy — was in Life Magazinc/and everything
was aquamarine.”
And, “She made the lights go down in China
Town/Madc the fat man sing in the middle of
the night,” goes a verse from “The Brother
hood,” The Men’s most lyrically interesting
song.
But the effect is lost. It’s as if the music and
the lyrics were composed by people whodidn’t
know each other well and collaborated mostly
by fax.
So what is it with bands that gel recording
contracts without producing anything new,
anything of their own? You can’t blame the
groups. It’s not their fault they got recorded
when they weren’t ready.
Blame the record companies who try to
package bands to look like there’s something to
them when there’s not.
Remember, corporate rock still sucks.
I Renaissance rhthyms to ring out at recital
By George K. Stephan
Staff Reporter
The Vocal Collegium, a singing groupdedi
catcd to performing music of earlier periods,
will present a free public recital at 8 p.m.
tonight in the Great Hall of the Sheldon Memo
rial Art Gallery.
The group, comprised of University of
Ncbraska-Lincoln faculty and students and
members of the Lincoln community, will per
form a program of songs by the Renaissance
composer, Josquin dcs Prez.
Pamela Starr, assistant professor of music at
UNL and a director of the Vocal Collegium,
said Prez was one of the greatest composers to
live in the Renaissance and was comparable to
William Shakespeare or Michelangelo in terms
of his musical accomplishments in that period
of music history.
The recital will consist of “Motets,” or Latin
sacred works, and “Chansons,” French songs,
and will be performed unaccompanied by the
16 members of the group, Starr said.
Starr said the singing group had devoted a
year to the study of the pieces by Prez. Per
forming the pieces with the acoustics of the
Great Hall at the Sheldon would give an added
richness to the music, she said.
The Vocal Collegium will perform the same
recital at 3 p.m. May 3 in St. Francis Chapel,
1145 South St. This locale was chosen again,
Starr said, because of the acoustics.
IStudents to show off Monet-inspired garments
From Staff Reports
Students in the Department of Textiles,
Clothing and Design in the College of Home
Economics will present someof this semester’s
work in a fashion show at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at
the East Union.
The show features the work of more than 15
upperclassmen and graduate students and will
include the Monel Collection, work by 10
students that was inspired by French impres
sionist painter Claude Monet.
The students watched a videotape of the life
and work of Monel at the beginning of the
semester and studied reproductions of his work.
Each student will be showing four garments
inspired by elements of the Monel study.
Dr. Robert Hillcstad, faculty sponsor of the
event, said the students have experimented a
great deal with dyeing and painting fabrics,
something designers seldom gel an opportu
nity to try.
Hillcstad, who has been promoting student
work for 20 years with similar shows, said the
videotape of the life of Monet from which the
designers drew their inspiration would be shown
at 2 p.m. and 2:15 p.m.
The show will be in the Great Plains Room.
The event is free and open to the public.
Political band
setting sights
high to convey
its messages
By Shannon Uehling
Staff Reporter
Twenty-eight months is a shori lime for a
band to be together — especially one that has
gained recognition so quickly in the Minnea
polis music scene.
E B Da, a mixed-genre band that will per- ..
form at Duffy’s Tavern Sunday night, has won
honors in its home town and has continued to
capture the attention of music critics.
Wesley Mayhem, the band’s lead singer,
guitarist and a songwriter, said E B Da was
setting its sights high.
“Not because we want lame, necessarily,”
he said. “But our music has a message in it.”
Mayhem also said he felt like a telegraph
when he wrote music.
“(It’s as if) it’s coming right through me,”
he said.
This message, he said, was about more than
drinking and chasing women — it was more
political.
“We want to contribute our part to politics,”
Mayhem said. “We want to effect change.”
The band’s first album, “Sursumcorda,”
incorporated taped voices to introduce politi
cal themes.
While May hem said these songs were meant
to be current, he said he believed they could be
classics in the same sense that some Clash
songs arc classics.
Bui, ultimately, E B Da s goal is mass
communication, tie said.
“We’d just like to be an international band
at some point,” Mayhem said.
The band is shopping for record labels and
hopes to sign with a major label or have a
stronger distribution within the next 12 months,
he said.
With its fresh sound, heavy with textures
and emotion, E B Da is “pushing on the bounda
ries of music,” Mayhem said.
These textures, he said, partially were be
cause all the band members gave their input to
writing the songs. Each member contributes
his musical ideas and in turn gets to share one
fifth of the copyright privileges.
“We’re very much in the tradition of a
band,” Mayhem said. “That’s a kind of a con
cept that’s lost a lot of its... it’s just not that
pervasive anymore.
“It’s kind of a romantic thing for us — we
want to be a band.”
In addition to Mayhem, E B Da is: Monte
Schaffer, bass guitar; Dan Johnson, guitar and
keyboards; Jason Gcrling, drums; and Jairo,
percussion.
E B Da is touring to back up its latest
release, “Barely Audible.” Mayhem said the
band had been out of town on tour dales about
half of each month.
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