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by S. Livingstone mincing words here and be very candid about The discard list the true quality of this album. It sucks! It-has Kirby Ferguson, the music editor of the X- been a long time site I pave listened to ‘an Press, usually allows me to review some ofthe @/bum so very excruciating. Itisa really bad rap material that floods our Charlottetown bureau @/bum that has, by Te fluke of nature and on a regular basis. You might think this is ‘hanks to tacky music lovers ae here, pr = because of his remarkable character as an editor seed beyond tt realm of the discount bin or his ability to organize the work load and Where it will be ina month and reached the top assign it to staff writers. I too believed this until ofthe charts. I cannot bring myself o talk about I discovered (that’s what reporters do) that the this album for much longer, but upon re material he gives me is simply the leftovers of 2 Sampling of the song titles s beaeae deside si his column ‘‘High Fidelity’’ that he deemstoo Yourselves. The rather suggestive titles aeclade painful to review. ‘‘Rump Shaker’’, ‘‘Knock-n-Boots’ See At first I thought my journalistic integ- Comey: Bz.Go (What Goes Up “Mast Conte

rity would be lost because of my reporting this Down)”’, ““Hard’’, and ‘‘Smooth’’. : scandal, but I have since cometo the conclusion | The other two albums I was een ae that we should all be very grateful that I am nothing short of excellent and why, they, were permitted to review Kirby’s discards, for what S°¢mingly worthless ie the music editor is be- The Jeff Healey Band he tosses aside as garbage I quickly pick upas Ynd my under. sanding. [Ed. Actually they (BMG) excellent listening and review it forthe masses, | W&ren’t. I just couldn’t mG bothered.] Both If is wasn’t for Kirby’s dedication to putting albums oe from England’s The Stone Roses. Feel This, the Jeff Healy Band’s third album forthamusic section devotedto diversity, many {his band might be compared to the Charlatans blends yearning ballads, rock-blues and all out ofthe albums Iam left with would gounnoticed. | UKIsuppose, but the Roses are more danceable tock in an album with something for almost Now that I have taken up a good portion of the with some of their songs. The 1992 release, comune: But, if you're looking for the same article reviewing Kirby’s editorial qualities | TUMs to Stone (8), Sentains Just Oneeat tie sound as on See The Light or Hell to Pay, you’re rather than the albums, it is probably best I get 8088S of the 1989 self-titledrelease 1) which in in for a shock. Feel This gives the listeners a on with it. The first album from Kirby’s Dis- | ™Y Mind givesanew band added credibility. If “lished rock sound including screaming gui- cards is Hard or Smooth by Wreckx-n-Effect _ Y°uhave come to appreciate that English sound ars and a strong bass line, even on the ballads. (0). This album should never have left the _ that others all too often try to duplicate, you are The first single is ‘Cruel Little Number”, sty dio let alone the discard bin, and althou gh I sure to like The Stone Roses. The lyrics are well sn Partial song writing eredit going to ZZ am aware ofits Billboard top forty standing, it Wtitten, or at least mle che con hese ane te °p’s Bill Gibbons, has a definite ZZ Topring doesn’t even deserve a review of any great _ Pleasant din of the instrumental arrangements,

° it. Baby’s Lookin’ Hot picks up right where length. Now, I do like rap, but let’s avoid 224 the band is just plain cool.

Tuel little Number leaves off. These are rock ongs in every sense of the words with raucous

Sound like no other. These songs are not for edicated fans of the JHB’s blues-rock style, tare quite pleasurable as a change of pace. For the fans of the blues sound so familiar °m JHB, this album includes cuts like It Could | Get Blown Away and The House That Love ilt. These incorporate the JHB’’s rock-blues le with their new found production edge to °vide a new variation on their old sound. The Jeff Healy Band’s strength lies in their ‘ming slow songs. Feel This takes the popu- The Jeff Healy Band Style and gives it a harsher sound. Cuts like In Your Eyes, penned by Tom Petty, and u're Coming Home”? are love songs with a hd quite unexpected from the JHB. This album as a whole was unexpectedly ‘. The sound is nothing like anything else by Jeff Healy Band. The writing was fairly “sive and the guitar was fantastic as to be “ted from Healy.