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MUSIC REVIEWS “Get Out of Me” They Came in Droves Fuse Records They Came in Droves matures in its second album, “Get Out of Me,” and success fully shakes off its U2-ish image with some superior alternative music. The Springfield, 111., band starts ofTthe album strong with “Puny,” a great song with some “grungy” sound and “Gerbiling,” a short, intense tune demonstrating some great musicianship. Some of the music on the album — for example, “Indian Sun (The Horse Song)”— is weird, but the lyrics are closer to crazy: “The leading horse is white/ the second horse is red/ the third is green/ and the last is dead.” The next song, “Devil Son,” is much softer, but has some foreboding sounds. It interestingly precedes “Trust,” a great song with a lot of theological questioning. The next song is another production from the Droves’ weird factory. “Liquid Bird” has some tripped-out sounds and even crazier lyrics than “Indian Sun.” “Egypt Calling” is another demonstra tion of the band’s fluidity. The Eastern twang adds a lot to the intense instrumentation. “Get Out of Me” concludes with “Anistasia,” an original tune that walks a fine line between being a down-to-earth love ballad and being a way-out-there alternative rocker. Catch They Came in Droves when they come to Lincoln Saturday. They will per :Pn!lat Knickerbockers with a Lincoln band, the Tom Ficke Group, opening. —Joel Strauch UNITOR BOH “Love Your Mind” Janitor Bob and the Armchair Cowboys Hooka Fish Music m. The music of Janitor Bob and the Arm chair Cowboys is energetically custodial. The debut album of this Sioux Falls, S.D., band, “Love Y our Mind” is a mixture of soft and hard alternative rock with a few ballads and a funky tune thrown in for additional diversity. The album starts out pretty laid back with “Brother Michael” and “Telephone,” two of the softer songs on the compact disc. Then the pace picks up with the title track, “Love Your Mind,” a heavier song with some interesting lyrics: “In the end it doesn’t matter/ not a single word I say will be/ enough to make you stand and/ be alive and be aware.” Then the Cowboys dip back down into the softer spectrum with a giddy little tune called “Happy Song.” It’s got some crazy sounds and some even crazier lyrics. The next song is one of the better ones on the album. “Warm Mayonnaise” represents the diversity of the album with all the chang es in its music and lyrics. There are some other great songs that need some mention. The funky sound of the song “Monday” changes the pace of the album and adds to the style. “Let Me Go” is a great tune with some heavy guitar licks that rock the level back up. The ArmchairCowboys really saved their best for last with “Heretic Hoping,” a power ful song with some great instrumentation. One of the heaviest songs, it provides a good conclusion for an excellent album. Martin Dill, the lead singer, sounds a lot like Bruce Springsteen, and this comes out in the ballads on the album. If you ever wanted to hear what the Boss would sound like singing alternative rock, check this out. Janitor Bob and the Armchair Cowboys will be playing in Lincoln at Knickerbockers tonight. The Lincoln band Straw Dog will be opening. — Joel Strauch This band won’t put you to Sleep By Marissa Jorgenson Staff Reporter This band has some serious goals in mind. “It’s our goal to be the loudest band on earth,” bassist and vocalist Al Cisneros of Sleep said. The sound of Sleep can be heard with Hawkwind at the Royal Grove in Lincoln to night. L____ Sleep, the three-man band that emerged from the South Bay, is on its way. Sleep has a pleasingly heavy sound complete with abyssal vocals and surreal lyrics that could take listen ers on a mind trip. Cisneros said, “We are a stoner band. We believe in marijuana and music; we see the two as religion.” Give heed to the spacey, tripped-out lyrics, and you’ll know what they’re talking about. The boys have been on tour for about a month gaining exposure and getting louder, Cisneros said, but they’re not about to get big-headed. “We play for ourselves, and our music has substance, he said. Guitarist Matt Pike and drummer Chris Hakius agree. Sleep’s demo recently attracted the men upstairs at Earache Records, the British compa ny whose reputation holds as the world’s heavi est label, but the band has been together since the eighth grade and in all likelihood, they’ll be around for a while longer. The band is out of time, though. “Where the band is right now, it should be 1967,” Hakius said. “If you read the lyrics to our stuff and have any clue in life at all,” Cisneros said, “you’ll be able to work it out and understand where we are coming from.” So if you’re into that mildly satanic, psyche delic thing. Sleep is right up your alley. (Women in film challenge oppression By Bobbie Gifford Staff Reporter _ CheickOumarSissoko’5“Flnzan*’ opens with a goat’s birth. As the baby struggles to escape its mother’s body, the mother is forced down. The baby suckles from its mother. As it jumps up and tugs at her nipple, she patiently endures without com plaint. The film opens wider to include people and reveals the dependence of both children and men upon women. “Finzan” demonstrates well the dou ble oppression of women in one or two I" African villages. The women are op pressed simply because of their roles as women — wife and mother. They are twice oppressed for lacking social mobility within the village. The focus of the film is on two women of separate villages who are somehow tied through the networks of marriage. The two are also allied for resisting the traditions of their gen der. One woman, Nan yum a, feels free dom for the first time when her abu sive husband dies. She flees and hides to escape the negotiations of her father and the village chief, who both wish to constrict her life once more via mar riage to her brother-in-law. The younger woman, Fili, objects to the position of the Women around her and the lack of an acceptable role model. “Are women human beings or slaves?” she shouts angrily at her mother. Fili’s Fight is against the rit ual of female circumcision. The film reveals not only the im balance of power and position be tween men and women, but also be tween men and state. Sissoko’s “Finzan” runs 107 min utes and plays Sunday at the Mary Riepma Ross Film Theater. 1 major Blowout? Your computer down ? Ours are up & running. Long lines and short fuses everywhere else? 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