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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
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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
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It is on this last song that bum that takes the word "pot
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When Deborah Glik graduate
from college, she encountered tf
3"e same dilemma that many your
^ people experience. In order I
^ue solve her problem, she joined tl
s a Peace Corps. Little did she kno\
Glick wasn't onlv on a mission
find herself, but was on the fn
leg of a mission that she would e
perience in her later life.
"I was in the Peace Corps aft
ew graduating from college and I b
came a health educator. Later,
came back to the U.S. and got
Ph.D. in public health. But, I st
I remained active in working f
Africa."
Glick is currently a professor
the College of Health at USC.
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."
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on traditional methods of me
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there. "People did come from
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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
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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
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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
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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 '
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