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     Martha and the‘Muffins 
     
     I Since their debut 
     
    
     / album, Metro Music, and 
     
     the inmhit, = 
     
     "Echo Beach", Canada's 
     
     Martha and. the Muffins 
     
     have undergone quite a 
     
     fan changes. One of the 
     
     Martha's is gone- Martha 
     
     Ladly left for England to 
     
     start her own group. 
     
     Bassist Carl Finkle is 
     
     gone and has been replaced 
     
     by Jocelyne Lanoi's, while 
     
     guitarist Mark Gane has 
     
     filled the-gap created by 
     
     Ladly's departure.  
     
    
     The personnel is not 
     
     the only feature of the 
     
     band that has changed. 
     
     This Is The Ice Age is an 
     
     almost complete departure . 
     
     from the bubblegum—laden 
     
     Metro Music. In one 
     
     respect this is good. I V 
     
     However, at the same 
     
     time, gone is the' freshness 
     
     and vigor which character— 
     
     ized cuts like "Echor 
     
     Beach" and "Paint By 
     
     Number Heart". It has 
     
     largely been replaced with 
     
    
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     eerie, haunting, more 
     
     sophisticated melodies. 
     
    
     V In effect, they have taken 
     
    
     _a good deal of the fun out 
     
     Of their music and injected 
     
     a conquerable portion of“ 
     
     gloom. 
     
    
     There are a couple of 
     
    
     .. exceptions to the above 
     
    
     observation , notable the 
     
    
     l_ Single "Women Around the 
     
     World at Work" and the up 
     
    
     tempo "You Sold the Cottage." 
     
     .Cmis is the Ice Age 
     
     brings to the fore. the 
     
     lyrical intelligence and 
     
     vocal’ability of Mark 
     
     Gane (he has been compared 
     
     This is 
     
     clearest in "Swimming" 
     
     and "Bay Without Filters". 
     
     Martha and the Muffins 
     
     could have been excused 
     
     for selling out. After 
     
     all, the band was only 
     
     months old when a British 
     
     record label (Virgin) 
     
     signed them to a recording 
     
     contract - before they. 
     
     even had a Canadian ‘ 
     
     contract. HOwever, $15 
     
     is the Ice Age gives me 
     
    
     Ell—e impreSSion that this - 
     
    
     » Jumpin' Jive. 
     
    
     ~ ' " , The UPEI SUN, October 29,1981, page 5 
     
    
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     band is growing and taking 
     
     itself seriously and, at 
     
     the same time, helping 
     
     the Canadian recording 
     
    
     1 industry do the same. 
     
     Jumpin' Jive - Joe Jackson 
     
    
     I'm still having 
     
     difficulty believing that 
     
     this is the same Joe " 
     
     Jackson that gave us 1111 
     
     the Man.‘ Well, Joe, you 
     
     may -E' the man but you're 
     
     going to have a hell of a 
     
     time winning back the 
     
     rock/punk fans that you 
     
     are going to lose with 
     
     Don't get 
     
     me wrong - in its own 
     
     right Jumpin Jive is a 
     
     good album. ‘It's just 
     
     that I don't think that 
     
     fans of look Sharp and 
     
     I‘m the Man are quite 
     
     ready for this. 
     
    
     To hear Jackson . 
     
     revive 40's swing (on 
     
     every cut) is a surprise 
     
     along the lines of Jeff 
     
     Beck jamming with Slim 
     
     Whitman. So, you don't 
     
     pay that much attention on 
     
     the first listen - you keep 
     
     checking "the l . p . jacket 
     
    
     to make sure that this 
     
     whOle thing is for real. 
     
    
     Now, for the Music. 
     
     Is it any good? Yes, if 
     
     pop/jazz is your thing. 
     
     it is very good. The 
     
     balance of the l.p. is 
     
     material made popular by 
     
     the likes of Glenn Miller, 
     
     Cab Calla/may, and Louis 
     
     Jordon. 'IWo Jordon ' 
     
     compositions are featured: 
     
     "You're My Meat" and 
     
     "What's the Use of Getting 
     
     Sober (when you're Gonna 
     
     Get Drunk Again)". 
     
    
     ~ Anyone but Jackson 
     
    
     probably wouldn't be able 
     
     to pull this project off 
     
     and get away with it. It 
     
     is Jackson't very evident 
     
     commitment to (and confidence 
     
     with) the material that 
     
     makes Jumpin Jive work. 
     
    
     Joe Jackson produced 
     
     and arranged Jumpin Jive 
     
     and the l.p. willwprobably 
     
     stand as his least success— 
     
     ful effort. In a way this 
     
     is unfortunate - he had 
     
     revived an often forgotten 
     
     era in the evolution of 
     
     pop music. 
     
    
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