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TT F It may be just both the Beach disco, but it seei of the Babys, the Don't take thu slur. In any cas ugnimng-snarp, what the point c but we've been h years ? clean-c and roll, withoi philosophy in it t Well, we can < change, to par propriety, and i reflect that whic that reflects NO' HEAD FIRST in that it demar eating dinner, s little album to si hear some musi< There is a stn Every song has lines and crysta they scream, "1 pression says, "] The Babys h< music world, a i Boston and He< anything which buying their al meaning. Sure, it never escape safe, middle-cla Martin's, this al sacred halls of K Of course, soi that. And indeed meaningless mu B H 1 ...? I k 0 : I If le Babys c 'artridge F By Lehman Stiles Blatant Entertainment Editor : the hallucinogenic effect caused I Boys and Paul McCartney goii us as if, lurking under the cute fac< ; Partridge Family has been reborn s as a slur ? well, okay, take it as e, the fact is that the Babys produi ear-pleasing music, but one wonde >f it all is. Sure, it's nice to listen t learing music like this for the past t< rut, all-American modern-times ro< it all that nasty and uncomfortab hat marked 1960s music. accept that. The times, they have aphrase Dylan with grammatic t's clear that popular music cann h no longer exists. But popular mus rHING is another matter. , the Bahys' third LP, is well-craft< ids nothing of the listener. If you'i tudying, or getting drunk, it's a fii ip on the turntable. But if you want you might try something else, mge paradox involved in this musi good strong hooks, catchy rhythm 1-clear performance. On the surfac listen to me!" But their overall ir Listen, but don't expect too much." ave definitely found a niche in tl liche they share with such groups ? *rt. The idea seems to be to avo might possibly prevent people froi bums: controversy, ugly emotio u s siaie-ot-ine-art rock and roll, bi s its self-imposed categorization ss mainstream music. Unlike Ste> Ibum will never be banned from tl -Mart. me people see nothing wrong wit , for Lawrence Welk and Muzak fan sic is fine. But rock and roll was bor The 2< i : the weather Th >n 'Head amily reh as a voice for rebellion, : rock is anything but reb >y feverish beat, the strained >g lines and the long-haired pei as rebellion has been applied t ana images, u ssorioi a snj a The album opens with ze Right," a song which sets 01 rs and rollers these boys ar o, conscious in the attempt I in almost like a parody of rc ik "Every Time I Think of Y< le at conjuring up images o Partridge, but an admirabh to it one of the album's best-soi al "I Was One" and "Run t ot songs if they didn't sound so ic every other hard rocker < interesting cut is "White Li lyrics about a boy in a den id own tooth, is a classic case < re don't mean band instrumenl le Side two is essentially a ci to mnrp tmicrh-Onv Hrnmminn ? ---WW VWV^.f C)UJ X4?Ui.ltl.lllb, playing, more plaintively 1 c. like letters to Dear Abb} ic SOUNDS wonderful, but te e, trifle boring after a while n- candy in place of musical no The kind of music that I ie challenge in the form of N is while admittedly hard to id balanced in form and conte m caught in the middle of a r n, make it as a "supergroup" lit choked. of In trying to play it safe, I /e an album that isn't as horn ie provides a specific purpose to. Head First has no purpo: h hit. It has succeeded, so let i s, substantial. n The Partridge Family, foi Ctkmi 919 St is b DO Pairs R< DP***# %?9 BF ^SSIf gpSr doesn't coof is is a sale lj rirst : >orn? and modern mainstream ellious. So we have the I vocals, the silky guitar rformers, but the sound of o the same old tired ideas ame. "Love Don't Prove I'm it to prove what good rock e. It's so blatantly selfthat it ends up sounding L/>lf rr?ncir? Tho npvt put 'V?% ??IMU?V. A IIV **VrtV V'MV) >u," is particularly adept f that cute little Danny e production effort makes undingcuts. -4jjH d Mexico" would be good much like each other and 1 >n the album. The most ? ightning," which, with its "qj| ilist's chair who pulls his )f clashing symbols, and I ts. reative echo of side one ? , more train-wreck guitar 1 ovelorn lyrics that sound | /. Mind you all of this ? chnical perfection gets a B t. This album offers ear 1 lurishment. | he Babys do is facing a j ew Wave, a style which, approach, is admirably I nt. The Babys seem to be I nusical change, trying to when the field is already the Babys have produced | ist as even disco ? disco . , creating a beat to dance J se other than to become a I is turn to something more | * instance. , mmmmwmmbhmmmmi MIC I * imter Stree laving a i Ladies' 1 educed i Derate, we'll I" iou won't wan 111E B A / JV'm |v' * *\V<v W "dT Clip & Sc SUB C El ' t, . OFFER! FREE DEL FROM 10 AM 765-p )bhlc t Shoes iave the sale t to miss. BYS / V < f ?i- ' 'Mil we"' ? 1 NITFP ! 1 I Hi I IVERY | - 12 PM | 813 j I I ? i ^??1 i inside! ,