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‘*Two Princes.”” Pocket Fullof Kryptonite has that artificial, rather vulgar flavour of being reprocessed and played by bombastic punks who think power and volume are the same thing. And it’s dumber than you ’lleverbe. Butit’s fun, and for a band that may very well have been weaned on Foghat, that’s gotta bea triumph, right? Continuing the fogey pa- rade, Keith Richards has released his second solo effort after the enjoyably disposable Talk Is Cheap. Main Offender (3) isabout as imaginative as it’s cover, filled with the same old same old, like lotsa abruptriffage and stop-and- g0, sparsecompositions. Whereas Pocket Full of Kryptonite con- tained three songs or so, Main Offender has zero. Old fuckin’ hat. The last couple of weeks has also seen the release of yet another batch of neo-Exile, this

one’s from former Guns n’ Roses guitarist, Izzy Stradlin. JuJu Hounds (5) essentially sounds like another Keith Richard’s solo album, but played with a little more verve than Keefcouldmuster on his last one. This one has some heart, a fairly honest approximation of classic rock, but whoneeds third hand Exile on Main Street. Go for thereal thing (by the way, it’s a Stones album.)

And lastly I have received the Northern Pikes latest, Neptune (2), which is simply moremedio- cre Can-Con. There shouldbe a law.

Next week T’libe summing up the year in music. And if you’ ve never heard Exile, check it out. I just listened to it and it’s woo-hoo-hoo! ii

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