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Carolina Life 4 The Gamecock Friday, March 30, 1990 O'Conno By TRICIA TITUS Staff Writer Sinead O'Connor I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got Chrysalis Records Believe it or not, Sinead O'Connor has apparently melInu/pH if SinpflH O'Connor ran ever be called mellow, that is. When she emerged on the music scene in 1987 with her debut, The Lion and the Cobra, she was a curious combination of punkprincess and Irish philosopher, shaved head and all. Maybe a better word for her metamorphosis is maturation. A littleknown fact is that she was six months pregnant when she recorded The Lion and the Cobra. Since the album was recorded, she has had her baby and married drummer/boyfriend John Reynolds. She also decided to grow her hair out again. On I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got the angry contempt of The Lion and the Cobra has become a self-possessed but biting criticism of the pop-star life, of Margaret Thatcher, of love and lovers and of injustice in all its forms. The raging contempt is gone, but O'Connor has replaced it with thoughtful, serene analysis and still managed to make the album overflow with emotion. O'Connor's voice is the star of the album. For the most part, she stays within her normal range: a low, smooth voice; but in her lower range her voice reaches to growling depths and in her upper range soars to ear-snattering heights in pitch and volume. The area in which this album far exceeds its predecessor is in the song writing. O'Connor wrote or co-wrote all but one of the songs, Prince's "Nothing Compares 2 U." This she covers with far better re Got a news tip? C&C ENTt ^ _ 1 anvin n' cryin' <s?? ^ \\V" A 1 v. Huger I Tickets on sale: Manifest [ For more infc r album c mm g S Music Review 1 ?. t; T suit than Prince himself ever could have hoped for. O'Connor's own songs are some ' of the most insightful and honest ^ commentaries on modem life that anyone has been able to come up ^ with in quite a while. "The Em- ? peror's New Clothes" deals directly with her own rise to fame ^ and what it did to her relationships. She sings "He thinks I just became famous/and that's what messed me up/but he's wrong/how could I possibly know what I want/when I was only twentyone." Two of the love songs on the album, "Three Babies" and "I Am Stretched on Your Grave," are sto- ries of grieving for dead loves. It is the latter which is one of O'Connor's finest achievements musically. She somehow knew that a beat that was fighting between being Celtic and hip-hop would be catchy under a soaring eulogy. The rest of the love songs are more about the bitterness of breakups than about the glory of love itself. "You Cause So Much Sorrow" and "The Last Day of Our Aquaintance" are stories of bruised and bitter hearts. It is here that O'Connor gives proof positive of her change: she may be bitter and cutting, but she is never really angry, not with the raging vengeance that she exhi- | bited on The Lion and the Cobra. About half of the album consists of semi-a cappella vocals over a bare drum-beat and , a flurry of C ^ strings. The others are funky w rhythm experiments lik;e "I Am 4 Call The Gamecock zRTAINMENT i HI 'Hln Hi m LL AGES Saturday IV rickets $10 Advance n performii ONSA Street Cone 903 Huger St. Discs & Taylor St. Pharmacy & H< irmation, call C&C Entertainment < confirms promist tretched on Your Grave" or same orders are given by her." )lksy ballads with a strong O'Connor proved herself to b ;oustic-guitar accompaniment like potential superstar with The L rhree Babies" or "Black Boys on and the Cobra. I Do Not W lopeds." What I Haven't Got will be the It is on this last song that bum that takes the word "pot I'Connor takes her biggest risk: tial" out of that phrase. She is < iking pot-shots at Margaret of the best songwriters out ri hatcher and her police. O'Connor now, with one of the most uni< lys good-bye to her life in Eng- and impressive voices. She i: md, explaining that she cannot force to be reckoned with. With lise her son in "the home of po- without hair. u;ii Kiar-t hnvc r?n Best Cuts: "I Am Stretched i ^ W X1 KJ XV XXX U X u v xv iy v j u v * * lopeds," where families need to Your Grave," "The Last Day eg and a political leader can be Our Acquaintance," "Black Bi shocked by the deaths that took on Mopeds," "The Emperor's N lace in Beijing" even though "the Clothes."* IB HHHnHHHnr aHBHEfflnrnk ? - Sinead O'Connor's new album I Do Not Want What I Haver lot, includes the single "Nothing Compares 2 U," which ws rritten by Prince and has gotten a good deal of airplay on To 0 stations around Columbia. at 777-7726 | |HjT&TW3l I Uilr/ATciffl PRESENTS Thank you for giving larch 31 8 p.m. Again and again. 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And, because of her hard woi she has recently been nominati by the Center for Disease Conti to teach proper health care to tl people in Northern Africa and optimistic about the future health care in Africa. I "I think that progress is occi ring. The more education that mother has, there's a better chan that the child will receive beti health care. The Peace Corps ? trying to help them build scho< for children." Currently, many Africans r< on traditional methods of me cine, such as herbs to cure ma diseases. Glik recalled a very fa ous cure for hepatitis that was v< popular the last time that she v there. "People did come from over the country to take this cur " Storytell IS %J ?J to Koser ma* By LAURA ANDREWS Staff Writer Actor John O'Neil will bring LJ one-man play featuring the chai ter Junebug Jabbo Jones to the ^ ' ger Center at 8 p.m. April 1. 3 A collection of tales told Junebug Jabbo Jones, the shov officially called Don't Start To Talking or I'll Tell Every thi) Know: Sayings from the Life Writings of Junebug Jabbo Jc (Volume I). Michael Taylor, director events at the Koger Center, i there is a special program desig for children, which will begii 6:15 p.m. at the Koger Center, invites parents to mingle in lobby while the children atter lA/^fii?*a f\v\A rlamrvnnffntmn PIW.IU1V aim uuiiuuouaiiun. The show is directed by S Kent and has been presented s NJ 1980 in Canada, France |y throughout the United States *' Scandinavian countries. In the opening tale, "I'm W1 Is Talking to You," Junebug the audience about himself. He plains that his name isn't real name but the title of his job. considers himself a smart fel who listens and spreads unoff news and trains other Junebue uneric&n ledCroM help him. : i v b presents 2's WEDNE IRY WEDI^DAY IS B-5; FEATURING B-52'S MI DRINK SPECIALS NIGHT ^^^^Draf^ver^^igl: r recounts orps days However, many Africans are unaware of the simple vaccination d processes possible for the prevenie tion of diseases. ,g In order to counter this problem, to Glik wants to take a much more ie preventive, educational approach v by working with the Child SurvitQ val Program, which works to stop st diseases that can be stopped during childhood. "U.S. doctors are working with er the doctors that are already there e_ to ship vaccinations against j mumps, tetanus, polio and malaria. a They also work with fighting the ill effects of malnutrition." or Ironically, nutrition has recently been the main topic that has been at centered around Africa. With groups like U.S.A. for Africa, milk lions of dollars were sent to Ethiopia and other drought-ridden countries to combat starvation. he However, the problem of poor js health care is becoming an even of bigger problem. "Right now, AIDS is really bad ir_ in Central and Eastern Africa, and a it's killing a lot of men that could ce be productive." ter Glik believes the problem could u-e be solved if more people would help the Africans to help themselves. "Earlier, (groups like CARE) didn't help in the long run. ,\y It's okay, but (giving food) doesn't jj. solve the problem. It just causes iny dependency." m_ Rather than giving food hand2ry outs, Glik believes people should /as give cement for the people to build ? * 1 -?? L -1: iL.i ajj a scnooi, anu 511c ueueves mai e ? more of that is being done now. er coming Sunday Act II opens with a story about his grandfather getting even with a his no-good politician and continues ; rac_ with "Down in the Boys Gym," an Ko- anecdote about coming of age in the 1950's. One of the play's most j by important points is found in the \ v is story of a displaced disk jockey, Me "Tommie Too Tuff Tucker." ng i O'Neil told the Koger Center and that the character was inspired by mes his involvement with the civil rights movement in the 1960's. of During that time, he worked as a said field secretary for the Student ;ned Non-violent Coordinating l at Committee. He In 1963, O'Neil co-founded the the Free Southern Theatre, which 1 ,d a brought theater to impoverished. people. As he traveled throughout teve the country with his theater, he reince corded sayings he heard in a and notebook. and When the Free Southern Theatre closed in 1980, O'Neil returned to 10 It his notebook for inspiration. There, tells the Junebug character was born < ex- and has flourished for a decade, ly a Taylor recommends this show He for children and adults of all ages. I How Tickets are $6 for adults, $4 for ' icial students and $2 for children 12 * ;s to and under. More information can " be obtained by calling 777-SCAT. I 4f I SDAY | i ) ^ 7 tj VS NIGHT JSIC rLY it ALL ABC REGULATIONS ENFORCED