No Subject

[seismo!sun!ogcvax!reed!soren (Soren Petersen)]

Just a few quick reviews:


Wednesday Week  *What We Had*

	As predicted, everyone's comparing them to the Bangles -- which
is fair enough, since the resemblence to *All Over the Place* and the 
first EP is quite pronounced.  Not whatcha call breath-takingly original
but well done.  Recommended if you like that kind of stuff.


Three O'Clock  *Ever After*

	Much better than *Arrive Without Travelling*.  Production is much
lighter, the melodies are much less forced.  First two songs on side 2 
really stand out.  Nothing as good as "Jetfighter" or "Seeing is Believing"
but a definite return to form from one of the best pop bands of the 
eighties.


U2   *The Joshua Tree*

	Believe what you have heard.  I don't care how many copies it's 
sold, it's a great album.


Husker Du  *Warehouse:  *Songs and Stories*

	So it's cool not to like them anymore.  Ho hum.  

Actually, it's a pretty dull album.  They only write in one tempo, except for
an occasional image from Hart, they can't write lyrics, and the tunes are pretty
ordinary.  Only two songs -- "She Floated Away" and "You Can Live at Home" -- 
stand up to anything on *New Day Rising* or *Zen Arcade*.   Would have made a 
good, but not great, single album.  
		

Siouxsie and the Banshees   *...and Through the Looking Glass*

	The album contains an absolutely brilliant version of Billy Holliday's
"Strange Fruit".  Unfortunately, the rest of the album is decidedly blah.
It's not as blah as *Tinderbox*, but then they picked better songs for this
one.  I'm listening to the next album before I buy it.
__________________________________________

				soren f petersen
				tektronix!reed!soren

"Reality is a Capitalist concept"