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Features 4 THE GAMECOCK Monday, December 7, 1987 By Bill Se Well, it dawned on me that this is the last "Picking Your Notes" for 1987, so I'm going to play Santa's helper and hint as to what records Saint Nick should drop under this year's tree. The Cure have finally done it. Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me is easily the best record Robert Smith and company have ever made. The entire tworecord set deals with a love affair, leading off with the aching "The Kiss" and closing 18 songs later with "Flight." If you can handle Smith's somewhat irritating vocals, you'll find an album equally blessed with super guitar work and danceable rhythms. Game Theory also released a great double-album set in 1987 entitled Lolita Nation. Honestly, this record ir-rt ' f/\r tUn V%ia+ i f tf/M ' rA V* a idii i iui mi* iiiiuu, uui 11 y\ju iv iiiv kind of guy who likes a masterpiece, get this one today. OK, last double-record set. Sting released his second solo album a few months ago, entitled . . . Nothing Like The Sun. He should have called it ... Nothing Like The Police. Contained on this record are the best examples of his songwriting skill. Highlights include the moody "They HI nHMBi JOIN PAIGE BY PL) FRIDAYS mn/fmrnm ICoirje to tlj Holi Thursday, n / 1 107o sto, '& including our n extensive selec j| items. If Text W Electr Drawi (Enter Ah( fn^Your Notes ngstacken Dance Alone" and the elegant "Englishman In New York." The Dukes Of Stratosphear take a bit of explaining. They are really XTC in psychadelic disguise. Rather than change the sound of XTC, they let their alter egos have all the aciddrenched fun. The second Dukes record is called Psonic Psunspot, and they sound more like Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band than the Beatles did. Check out the Yellow Submarine knock off "You're A Good Man Albert Brown" and the musical identity crisis "Have You Seen Jackic?" (Is she a boy, or is he a girl?) L. L. Cool J. proved there was more to the rap alphabet than the letters D.M.C. with 1985's super debut Radio. He followed that up this summer with Bigger And Deffer. On his second record, L. L. continues on his favorite theme ? talking about how great he is. It is not quite as good as Radio, mostly because of Rick Rubin's absence behind the production board. U2 put out The Joshua Tree this ! ?? U..? J ?* 1 ytai. 11 a gicai, uui yuu uuii i uccu me to tell you that. Winner of 1987's over hype award. TiTW3 AS SHE "VIOLATES THE VII WING THE BEST IN THIS V\ NFW Ml IQIr. RPI FACFQ ? ^ i? ww IVIW wiw i II L_ i / * / i w > FROM 6 TC fS^s ^{FL q University ? day Opeij Hoi Dec. lOtfy froni pewide discount on nagnificent sale bool :tion of Gamecock c Nothing held back books Mag onics Snad ealth and Beauty ^ ng for Grand Prize *ad But You Must Be Pres< Light Refreshment University Bookstore 'our Partner in Educat Moving on to records that should be melted and turned into trash bags: The Red Hot Chili Peppers once were great. With their 1984 self-titled debut, they made the connection between punk and funk seem obvious. With the release of The Uplift Mofo rariy nan, mey seem oaaiy in neea of inspiration. After repeated listens, the only thing that stuck in my mind was that 1 blew $7.98 on this record. Lisa Lisa And The Cult Jam should be shot. Spanish Fly is the name of their new record, and it would seem that all the creative juices of the band went to the naming of the record. When they run out of music, they insist on showing how "funny" they are by placing insipid dialogue between the tracks. "Lost In Emotion" is the stand-out track, but that's not saying much. Three years ago Stan Ridgway left Wall Of Voodoo, and three years ago the band should have closed up shop. They got lucky with 1985's passable Spvpn Dov\ In Snmmvstnwn hut thp luck dries up in 1987. With the release of Happy Planet, the band seems to trade in the western flavor of past records in exchange for a second-rate Devo sound. Bad idea, guys. Just one small step for being called "Wall Of Doodoo." Whitney Houston released her debut solo album in 1985. She apparently released it again in 1987. Who does she think she's kidding? Quite a few of the songs on Whitney sound very much like songs off Whitney Houston. Must have been a real strain on her brain coming up with those titles. "Didn't We Almost Have It All" could be "The Greatest Love Of All Part Two." She's just lucky she has a good voice. Suffice it to say, if you have the first one, you certainly don't need the second. RGIN VINYL" IJ (EEK"S pj ) 9 PM 1 bookstore's | use!! I > 5pnj - 6pnj | vour Durchases 9 vS, calendars, and if :lothing and gift & except: % azines ? : Foods ? Jds m al 5:45 g. "nt To Win) v 7- C,Wf:: 3S| wflflfc WBBF yj^Jun^' Hitting the books Journalism sophomore Jeff Nichols tries to get ahead Hypnotist to pe By STEPHEN GUILFOYLE Copy desk chief Hypnotist James Mapcs, a former college performer of the year, will bring his special, "Journey Into the Imagination," to the Russell House Ballroom tonight at 7:30. Mapes was last at USC in 1985, and on that occasion he filled the ballroom. His act promises total audience par ticipation, and in '85 he hypnotized about 30 students. Once Mapes got the group on stage under his control, he described a trip on a spaceship, and the hypnotized participants felt everything he decribed. At one point, he said a little alien creature was sitting under their chairs. The participants looked, and then Mapes said the alien pulled out a gun. One girl was so frightened she fell off the stage, a sign of how much she [ Jljj- : Ft f? HI S _A3B M- H A t ^ SPECIAL || GRAND HOUSES OFT (includes 22 full-co l ELIOT PORTER'S AM) I WHO'S WHO IN THE I COUNTRY INNS OF A I ANTIQUES DIRECT01 I ATLAS OF WORLD W I ORIGINAL WHITE HC | HOME TO JERICHO-S BRUCE CATTON'S CI J !! AtmADAMiC PT pnin II /Yum/nun o tjijrji ii/ LA MKTIIODE, PEPN JUST A SAMPLE I JSC HM yNivi j 1WJ ?UUI\ ( BBnMMWMMBnnvnnaKMHMMHMnamoMHti * A ' JEFF THOMPSON /The Gamecock before exams. T Ten ;iiuiiii ai believed Mapes. She was uninjured. Mapes also sent some of his hypnotized participants back into the audience with post-hypnotic commands to get up and yell at him when he clapped his hands, then forget they were hypnotized. Mapes clapped his hands a number of times, and the participant had no idea why the audience was laughing at him. ^ ^ Mapes also does age regression in his act. At the 1985 show, he said he used to take participants into past life experiences, until he did a show at a religious university. The university administration was outraged, Mapes said, and he cut that from his act. No pun intended, but Mapes has a hypnotic stage presence even when he is not trying to tell you to relax. He has a witty, lively show and is quick on his feet to answer challenges and questions. >ay Merry Christmas vith a book from the University Bookstore s Christmas Sale! )R GIFTING! All sale nriced HE SOUTH special $19.95 f) ^ lor photographs of South Carolina) 2RICAN PLACES special 19.95 | HBLE orig. 37.70 17.95 MERICA COOKBOOK orig.24.95 9.98 I nr rnirrmT ir^n r* r s\/\ nn ak u tu-r U KIN ITU KB ong. OD.UU ZZ.yD \ ILDLIFEorig. 35.00 17.95 )USE COOKBOOK orig. 19.98 8.98 HUPTRINE orig. 50.00 40.00 VIL WAR orig. 40.85 7.98. iNT FOLIO orig. 185.00 79.95 ^ 4 orig. 25.00 14.98 COME SEE THE REST! "14 SUSITY F'? | STOREj IbmmmI I