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“Return of the Valley of the Go-Gos” The Go-Gos LR.S. Records Grade: B They’re baaaack. The Go-Gos somehow managed to put their soaring solo careers on pause to re lease “Return to the Valley of the Go-Gos.” The two-CD set includes previously unrereleased songs from the Go-Gos club days, hits like “We Got the Beat” and “Va cation,” and three brand-spanking-new songs. Somehow, the idea of previously unreleased Go-Gos songs just isn’t as ex citing as unearthed Beatles songs or live Pearl Jam recordings. Many of the older songs — including the amusing “Johnny Are You Queer?”—were poorly recorded at Los Angeles clubs. The music sounds far away and the vocals are unintelligible. Most people will probably be more curi ous about the three new songs, “Good Girl,” “Beautiful” and “The Whole World Lost Its Head.” The best of the three is “The Whole World Lost Its Head” — if for no other rea son — because it contains the lyric: “Maiy ate her little lamb/ And punk rock isn’t dead.” But the new Go-Gos sound a lot like the old Go-Gos. A whole lot. The band’s music hasn’t evolved much since 1984. Maybe that isn’t such a bad thing. If nothing else, “Return” is fun and nostal gic. Sometimes the world seems to change too fast. For those of us who grew up in the ’80s, things look a lot harsher with our 1994 eyes. It’s rather comforting to know that at least one thing hasn’t evolved, or moved on, or gone grunge. It’s land of nice to pop in a Go-Gos disc and feel like you’re the main character in a USA “Up All Night” movie, trying to choose between your pink or your sky blue legwarmers. (Kind of nice, kind of weird.) “Return” is a smart buy for people stuck in 1984 and for hard-core Go-Gos fans. Everyone else probably shouldn’t fork out the bucks for a 2-CD set just to hear “Our Lips Our Sealed.” — Rainbow Rowell Santa Continued from Page 9 him the most joy. “Some will ask where the reindeer are and I tell them they’re on the roof,” he said. “Ther they’ll ask how I get up there, and I’ll tell them it’s magic.” Barbie dolls, remote control cars and videc tapes seem to be popular wishes, he said. Bice watches nearby parents’ reactions before he an swers. “If the parents shake their heads ‘yes,’ then I can say Santa will bring them their gilt,” he said. “If they shake their heads ‘no,’ then I tell them Santa will do whatever he can.” Not all requests are for toys or games, though. “One little girl asked me to make her dog well. Her father took him out hunting and the dog got shot,” he said. “A lot of these things really go to heart.” If you don’t stop your fnend from driving drunk, who will? Do whatever it takes. FRIENDS DON’T LET FRIENDS DRIVE DRUNK. Michelle Peulman/DN Ingrid Jordan, loft, and Alyson Qoodall havo decorated tholr resl donco hall room with snowflakes, string* of lights and Christmas pumpkins, which Jordan and Qoodall bought for Halloween but never got around to carving. Decorate Continued from Page 10 wreath and a “Meny Christmas” banner. “We started decorating as soon as we got home from Thanksgiving break,” she said. “We didn’t even unpack.” Goodall and Jordan spent about two hours decorating. “We put on Mannheim Steamroller and inade hot cocoa while we were doing it,” Goodall said. “It was kind of a big project.” Because students won’t be in the residence halls during Christmas, Goodall said she wanted to celebrate the holidays with her friends on her floor while she could. “When we have our door open, people stop in and say, ‘Wow, it’s really green in here,”’ she said. “We still want to go kind of nuts with the paper snowflakes.” Goodall said she still was looking for more ways to decorate. “We’d like a real tree, but if we burnt Abel down, we’d probably get caught,” she joked. “So we’ll probably not do that. And an artifi cial tree is too expensive.” Lindsey Kruger does not have a real tree, but she still has an abundance of Christmas decorations in her room at Sandoz Residence Hall. A stuffed candy cane, a garland and a plas tic Santa adorn her door. Students walking down 17th Street can see Kruger’s Christmas spirit in the shape of a blinking white star on her window. The freshman engineering major said she had always thought Christmas was the most beautiful and happy time of the year. At her home in Fremont, her family deco rated heavily for Christmas, and Kruger wanted to bring that spirit down to Lincoln. “You just don’t understand decorating un til you see my home,” she said. “Christmas at my house starts at Thanksgiving and ends in February.” Her mother has “Christmas everything,” in cluding glasses, china, stockings, mugs, plates, candles, ornaments, towels, music, knick knacks and lights. “She doesn’t have Christmas couches,” she said, “but if she could, she would.” Kruger said her mother gave her several Christmas items to make her residence hall room more like home. She said she even had a Christmas Cabbage Patch Kid. 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