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
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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
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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.
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