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Cibo Matto \
“Viva! La Woman”
Warner Bros.
Grade: A
Cibo Malto may be one of the
best bands around that plays only a
drum machine and a sampler.
The female Japanese duo uses
samples gracefully, mixingthe sto
len riffs smoothly with drivingdisco
beats and alternately breathy and
howling vocals. The samples are
well chosen because they are not so
hackneyed as to be recognizable to
a fairly ignorant ear.
If the current formula of popular
music is to make something origi
nal well within a specified market,
Cibo Matto succeeds brilliantly.
The band is purely joyful, but still
manages to be as sexy as rave music
should be.
Of course the sexiness is some
what subtle, considering all the lyr
ics on the 12-song compact disc are
about food (Cibo Matto means
“crazy food”). Within the food
theme, Cibo Matto brags about their
knowledge of poultry in “Know
Your Chicken” and addresses
American gluttony in “Birthday
Cake.”
The other songs dig into, well,
frankly I have no idea. The lyrics
read like a free-verse cookbook. In
“White Pepper Ice Cream,” singer
Miho Hatori sings “White pepper
ice cream, it’s like a line drawing, it
snipped my heart...”
They also do a genuinely cool
cover of“The Candy Man,” which
may be reason enough to buy the
album even if you’re not the danc
ing type.
_
But the most memorable song is
the rap “Know Your Chicken.”
Hatori uses her thick Japanese ac
cent and silly lyrics to parody the
machismo of popular rap.
Cibo Matto is cryptic, but I sup
pose dance music like this is not for
listening to anyway.
— Kathleen Peistrup
Various Artists
“Punk You Vol. 1 — Music For
The Discerning Slacker Punk”
EMI Records
Grade: B
Memories of snarling anarchy,
safety-pinned faces and all your
other favorite British ’70s punk
nostalgia symbols once again can
be remembered, thanks to EMI
records — and there is no reason
why.
There seems to be an unlimited
supply of these new punk compila
tions, which is good news for any
one hunting down these extremely
hard-to-find punk singles.
aSure, you already may have a
copy of Generation X’s“One Hun
dred Punks,” or the Buzzcocks’
“Orgasm Addict,” but how many
chances are there to pick up a copy
of “The Greatest Cockney Ripoff”
by the Cockney Rejects, or 999’s
“Homicide”?
Strangely, the Sex Pistols are
nowhere to be found on this album.
Perhaps the legendary band’s ab
sence can be easily understood be
cause the band financially abused
EMI Records, and then sang about
it in the song “EMI.”
Besides a generous helping of
mohawk culture, “Punk You” also
includes many bands who crossed
over from punk to new-wave mu
sic, like Blondie, Adam and the
Ants and Bow-Wow-Wow.
But while the punk songs fea
tured are mostly good, nearly every
one of the many new-wave songs
featured suck,especially Blondie’s
“The Attack of the Killer Ants.”
The only decent punk-in-transi
tion song on the album is Siouxie
and the Banshee’s “Hong Kong
Gardens.”
It also must be noted that there
are hardly any New York bands on
this compact disc, and nothing from
the L.A. scene at all. British punk
compilations may be plentiful these
days, but it would be nice to have a
new retrospective on bands like Fear
and the Dead Kennedys from
America’s West coast.
Unless you’re a hard-core col
lector who must have a recording of
every forgotten “Blank Generation”
band in the archives, you’d be a lot
better off buying the albums these
songs are swiped from, like Wire’s
“Pink Flag.”
So, do what the Sex Pistols did,
and tell EMI Records to “punk” off.
— Patrick Hambrecht
Das EFX
“Hold It Down”
EastWest
Grade: B
Third albums in hip-hop are an
anomaly. Usually, rappers either
pay dues on the first and blow up on
the second, or hit big first olT and
then fall short on the follow-up.
For Das EFX* the latter case
applies in the minds of most. But
what do you do on a third album to
regain the lost credibility?
Surprisingly enough, Scooband
Dray return to what made them fa
mous, the diggity style.
Even though they denounced this
style on their last album in lieu of
rapid-fire lyrics, they must have
felt enough time had passed since
the diggity was played out.
To confuse us even more, the
first track is called “No Diggity.” It
basically boils down to an attitude
of “we don’t need gimmicks, but
we can do the diggity whenever wc
feel like it!”
Having said that, these guys lay
back on DJ Premier and Easy Mo
Bee tracks and keep their lyrics
tight. That is, for the first half any
way.
When the second hal f of this too,
too long album comes around, you
arc about ready to pop in some Wu
Tang Clan. If they would have fol
lowed the recent trend of shorted
albums, (i.e. Nas, Kool G Rap),
they could have knocked us out
with 10 dope tracks. Instead, we
end with a “ho-hum.”
And where’s Parrish/PMD you
ask? He shows up with “Bad News”
and sounds as if he is stuck in the
Boon Dox.
—Greg Schick
Banddehes pop-punk principles
By Patrick Hambrecht
Senior Reporter
The funky Texas band Billy Goat
will try its best tounnerve the Mudsl ide
Slim audience tonight with pagan
shock-tactics and a super rhythmn sec
tion.
Be warned and show up.
Hippy grooves and new-age rap
ping are present all of the way through
Billy Goat’s new album “black and
white.” It’s hard to get a handle on
exactly where this band is coming
from with songs like “Jackson 5 alarm
clock” and “idiot boomerang,” and
maybe that’s the point.
A strong beatnik influence is evi
dent in Mike Dillon’s laid-back raps,
which seem to have a lot more in
common with a coffee shop poetry
reading than urban hip-hop. Just like
the ex-local band 311, he talks a lot
about a hazy spirituality that is both
vaguely Rastafarian and ecological,
especially in the song “NO NAME.”
Billy Goat’s instrumentation is both
subtle and exciting, without harsh
crashing guitar fuzz or predictable
drum patterns. They disregard nearly
every pop-punk principle, yet still end
up sounding “alternative” inarefresh
ing new way.
Anyone who enjoys the mesmeriz
ing sounds of trip-hop, or the innova
tivejamrhythmsofthe Grateful Dead,
will be thrilled by Ray Pollard’s drums.
Pollard’s drums are incredibly com
plex without sounding like a leftover
from a ’70s jazz-fusion band.
Unlike Pollard, Kim Pruitt’s pres
ence on the album is harder to find.
Billed only as “visual movement,”
maybe she’s a dancer, or the mysteri
ous goddess to which Dillion often
refers. Maybe she drives their van.
At least half of Billy Goat’s pres
ence is not in its album. The rest lies in
its spirited, frightening stage shenani
gans.
Billy Goat will play with local band
Blaster tonight at Mudslide Slim’s,
14180 St., at 10:30. The cover charge
is $5.
Benoit
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and local Cajun festivals and eventu
ally moving up to rock ‘n’ roll shows.
Benoit, from that point on, has been
busy. After being heard by Randall
Jamail, the president of Justice
Records, he was signed to a multiple
album deal.
He also has been quite busy in
television; he not only appeared in the
premiere season of “Baywatch
Nights,” but also recorded songs for
“Northern Exposure,” “Melrose
Place” and “Party of Five.”
Benoit is now touring in support of
his newest album, “Standing on the
Bank.” The show tonight starts at 9,
and the cover charge is $6.
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