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February 7,1992 Record Reviews The Kountess suggests... Louisa Spaventa Staff Writer LookMomNo Head by The Cramps and The End of Silence by Rollins Band Self-indulgent blues fan? Do you work up a sweat listening to your car stereo? You may enjoy these babies, some of the first gems of 1992. The Cramps' "Miniskirt Blues," and Rollings Band's "Blues Jam," give new crunch to the true blues. What American music! Of course, either band would prob ably resent this coupling of sonic ear bleed ing: The Cramps would rather be left alone, laughing, in their whipped-cream swimming pool; and Henry Rollins is not one to crack a smile (Rollins' muscles could form a band themselves). If they were dolls, Rollins Band would be Masters of the Universe Action Figures and The Cramps would be mutilated Barbies. But Tropicana Barbie and He-man get along WQFS Top 35 ======: Compiled by WQFS LW TW ARTIST TITLE LABEL 1 Mortal Lusis Intense 2 2 Various I'm Your Fan comp. Atlantic 9 3 The Ancients The Ancients Mission 1 4 Clockhammer Klinefelter First Warning 13 5 The Black Watch Flowering Doctor Dream 6 Lou Reed Magic and Loss Sire 12 7 Scatterbrain Scamboogery Electra 17 8 Saint Etienne Fox Base Alpha Warner Bros. 27 9 Nitzer Ebb Ebbhead Geffen 35 10 Corrosion of Conformity Blind Relativity 6 11 Live Mental Jewelry Radioactive 8 12 Enya Shepherd Moons Reprise 10 13 Nonmeansno 0 + 2=l Alt Tentacles 19 14 Bongwater The Big Sell Out Shimmy Disc 15 Will and the Bushmen Blunderbuss Core 16 16 Monkeyspank Blue Mud Merkin 20 17 The Look People Boogazm A&M 23 18 My Bloody Valentine Loveless Sire 19 Antenna Sway Mammoth 20 Stealin' Horses Mesas and Mandolins Waldoxy 21 Think Tree Like the Idea Caroline 22 Luka Bloom The Acoustic Motorbikeßeprise 23 Lush Spooky Reprise 3 24 Teenage Fanclub Bandwagonesque Geffen 4 25 Sarcastic Mannequins Little Brother Eyecon 5 26 Lords of Acid Lust Caroline 7 27 The Samples Underwater People The Samples 14 28 Died Pretty Doughboy Hollow Beggar's Banquet 15 29 Flaming Lips Wastin Pigs is Still Radical Warner Bros. 24 30 Psychefunkapus Skin Atlantic 28 31 Severed Heads Cuisine Nettwerk 29 32 Uncle Tupelo Still Feel Gone Rockville 34 33 Various Just Play comp. Brooklyn Beat 34 Will Pearl of Great Price Third Mind 35 H.E.A.L. Civilization vs. Technology Elektra well sometimes. Anyway, a lot of people liked Henry Rollins better in Black Flag. He seems a bit too serious. The music is much too grungy and slow to pass for hard core, but I think the band is really tight You might remember "Another Life," from Lollapalooza—it grinds. The songs are long, ranging from four to twelve minutes each, and the lyrics are pretty angst-infested. Recommended for the "Angry Youth" crowd. If you'd rather listen to songs like "Eye ball in My Martini," The Cramps will be your freak show guides. They never fail to entertain (and they're playing N.C. very soon). Recommended for the "Demented/ Aggressive" crowd. What's the difference between angry and demented? It's like Mean Magenta and Screaming Scarlet, you're probably better off liking both. That's the test of a true intellectual. Features Moments in Black History The Black Power Conferences: 1966-1970 When the nonviolent Civil Rights Move ment began to lose momentum, "Black Power" emerged as an organized and pow erful force in the black political comm unity. The First National Conference on Black Power in Washington, D.C. on September 3, 1966, was coordinated by Congressman Adam Clayton Powell. It was attended by 169 delegates from 37 states and 64 organi zations. Most importantly, the delegates agreed to meet the next year in Newark, NJ. from July 20-23. The Second National Conference on Black Power was the largest and most broadly representative gathering of black Ameri cans—over 1000 strong from 36 states and 42 cities. In contrast to any other meeting of national black leaders, the Second National Conference was an all black meeting; the white administration and press were not invited and their opinion's were not solic ited. The four-day affair took place at the conference headquarters of Cathedral House in the heart of Newark's Episcopal Diocese. The closed nature of the meeting allowed the 14 workshops to create a national agenda for Black Power in relative secrecy. This enabled top leaders to keep their disagree ments secret while they created an agenda for their program. This prevented the com mon complications that black leaders have traditionally had with media exaggeration and antagonism. The continuum of black organizations represented at the meeting ranged from the "conservative" groups like the NAACP, the SCLC and the Urban League to the "ortho dox radicals" of CORE and SNCC to the "revolutionary" paramilitary groups like Ron Karenga's US of Los Angeles and Charles 37X Kenyatta's Mau Mau of New York. Because the conference was held during a rise in urban violence, the paramilitary groups gained an unprecedented amount of support for their programs. These programs emphasized the need for supporting black youth organizationsand self-defense courses for all black families, the rejection of the RECPTION FOR RETURNING STUDY ABROAD STUDENTS Friday, February 14th (Valentine's Day) 2:30-4 p.m. Sun Room —Off Campus Education—Worth House II Everyone in the Guilford community is invited! Come and welcome friends back to campus. Share a little of their experience. Mike Sick Staff Writer THE GUILFORDIAN word "Negro" for the word "black," and the denunciation of Christianity as a hollow religion which preached love and altruism and practiced violence and materialism. There were resolutions calling for the formal creation of a Black America within the United States, the refusal of blacks to accept induction into the Armed Forces, the censure of all Congressmen who voted to unseat Adam Clayton Powell, and support of a black boycott of the 1968 Olympics in the event Muhammad Ali's title remained unrestored. This activity was the zenith of Black Power's influence on the national politics. At the Third National Conference on Black Power held in Philadelphia at the end of August of 1968, more than 3000 delegates participated. Not all resolutions of the Con ference were made public, but among the released were: "Immediate withdraw of U.S. forces from Vietnam, boycott of the draft by eligible black youths, denunciation of the term 'ghetto,' and implementation of the goal creating a black urban army in the city's for the protection of black citizens." In 1969, delegates attended a conference in Hamilton, Bermuda, to create an interna tional Black Power organization. However, by this time the Black Power movement was dwindling in number and impact. The 1970 Conference was held in Atlanta and was supported by rhetoric promoting the liberation of black people. The term "Black Power" was removed from the title and the conference was renamed 'The Con gress of African People." The change was made in hopes of broadening support for the movement. The five years of conferences proved that the Black Power movement was a valid force in the black community, rather than a clever slogan thatachieved momentary fash ion. The movement created unity among the black leaders that was not formerly present on a national scale. Black Power continues to be a source of interest to leaders of the black community and it promises to be an essential part of its politics in the years to come. 13
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