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By ED LEITCH
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' Hard Promises.
The title is just sitting there, baiting some obnoxious
critic to take crayon in hand and scribble down some
thing about how the Hard Promises weren't kept.
It would be a mistake, but an understandable one,
given what so many artists typically release after a
commercial success namely, a commercial album
full of hastily written material and half-hearted play
ing. But this is not, I repeat, not the case with Tom
Petty. ' ' ,
Granted, the album is different in some way from.
Damn the Torpedoes, the exact difference being diffi
cult to grasp from the first listening. The writing isn't
weaker; it is simply a shift of perspective from Petty's
earlier work.
On Damn the Torpedoes, as in the band's name
sake, Petty took the role of the "Heart breaker" and
went at it with a vengence, asking his audience and
his ex-lover, "Why do you want to lay there and revel
in your.abandon?" On Hard Promises, he has placed
himself in the role of the emotional "refugee, deal
ing sensitively with those naughty problems of unre
quited love and disappointment. It would seem that
Petty understands more than he .let on earlier about
what it's like to "revel in abandon."
. Look at the words to "She's a Woman in Love
(But It's Not Me)":
' Time after time, night after night
She would look up at me and say she was lonely
I don't understand the world today
I don 't understand what she needed
I gave her everything, she threw it all away .
On nothin' ;
She's a woman in love.
What made Petty decide to play more of the
wounded rebel this time around? Who knows
maybe his girlfriend has been treating him baaaaaaad
since he started hanging around with Stevie Nicks.
Oh yes, Tom indulges her on two songs on Hard Pro
mises, where she sings her usual mysterious " ghost -woman
-of-t he-night" laments in a tasteful distance
from the Dylanesque slurring of his own lead vocals.
We can only thank the Lord that the Los Angeles ses
sion musicians that the Heartbreakers helped out on
Stevie's Bella Donna weren't invited along with her
to return the favor. Then Tom and his listeners would
have had something to get really down about.
Don't get the idea from this that Tom has given up
hope or any of that cocksure toughness by dealing
with a few less joyful subjects on Hard Promises.
Listen to The Waiting" or take a gander at the
photo on the inner sleeve, where Tom knows where
your wife is but you don't. These two items alone
should dispel any notions about his being any less of
a survivor. v
If there is any justice, the Heartbreakers as a band
will be survivors as well, long after the likes of such
high school puerile doo-has like AC-DC have faded
away. It is encouraging to know that performers as
accessible as Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers exist
to remind them that a little time spent practicing has
its advantages. This material really gets back to bas
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By JESSE FARRELL '" '
DTH Staff Writer
The "new romantic" movement, born in England,
centers around dressing up in interesting arid outlandish
clothes and makeup and dancing in clubs to music that is
rooted in mid-1970s dance music such as disco and jazz
funk. As with any musical fad, there are scores of bands right
now, mainly in England, out to make their fortunes,
whether under the guise of "futurists," "Blitz kids" or
"new romantics." Some of these bands are quite good
Spandau Ballet for instance but many of them are
not worth a second listen. One of the most forgettable is
a five-man band from Birmingham, England, called
Duran Duran, whose first album, which takes the name
of the group as its title, was released this summer.
The problems with most of the bands in this "new ro-
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manticfuturistBlitz" genre are the problems that mar
Duran Duran. This subculture, obviously, is primarily
concerned with style. Duran Duran is overly concerned
with style the beat, the clothes, the image and, most
important, the photos and not with musical substance.
The music on Duran Duran is mostly old-fashioned and
merely functional disco, made acceptable, because the
band is young, white and English. Their music is all gloss
with nothing underneath, partially a result of a sterile
production job.
Simon Le Bon, Duran's lead vocalist, has a good
voice, but it sounds distant and plain at times. The bass
and drums, played by John Taylor and Roger Taylor (no
relation), are funkless and stiff.
Since bass and drums are the backbone of most recent
dance music, Duran Duran is fighting an uphill battle
from the start. It's left to the rest of the rhythmrsection
to take up the slack, but guitarist Andy Taylor (again, no
relation) and keyboarding Nick Rhodes are too unprod-
ding and unadventurous to improve the situation. The
lyrics, written by the group, are juvenileartsy, and they
do sound as though they were written by committee.
Yet Duran Duran has had remarkable success in
England. Their album has been in the top 10, and the
group has had three hit singles all are included on the
album. The first hit, "Planet Earth," is the worst track
on the album, while the Other two, "Girls on Film" and
VCareless Memories," are two of the three good tracks
(i.e. least bad). The rest of the material, with the exception
of "Friends of Mine," is filler. '
For all the good music that they wish to emulate
Bowie, Roxy and Chic Duran has made a very dispo
sable album. The best dance music has almost always
been a marriage of group style and musical and verbal
substance. Duran Duran has embraced style and ignored
substance, making their debut album a well-wrapped of
stale air. -
By JESSE FARRELL
DTH Staff Writer
The B-52's Party Mix is a 28 Vi-minute
extended-play record that features an excel
lent remix of six previously released tunes:
"Lava," "Dance This Mess Around" and
"52 Girls" from their first album and
"Party Out of Bounds," "Private Idaho"
and "Give Me Back My Man" from Wild
Planet.
Party Mix is basically a self-evaluation
of the group's sound on its first two albums.
The new record crams a large amount of
sonic information into the musicmaking
it good for headphones. The basic tracks
have a cleaner, more detailed sound on the
remix and more details have been added
some electronic treatments of the voices
and drums, along with some rather inven
tive synthesized sounds.
Party Mix is different enough from the
originals, to be something other than a re
dundant rerelease. It's a refreshing
change in direction for the B-52's, showing
that they don't intend to forever recycle
the ideas contained in their first two albums.
The Raincoats' Odyshape is rooted in a
different dance music reggae. Odyshape
is their second album and their first to be
released in the United States. The new al
bum is a less crammed, more electric ver
sion of the ideas expressed in Party Mix,
.as it relies on the varied textures of a wide
array of instruments.
The group Vicky Aspinall on violin, .
Gina Birch on bass and Ana da Silva on
guitar shares vocal and compositional
. duties and doubles on other instruments.
The Raincoats' songs are mostly slow
and melodic. It is music that is still very
exciting, partially because of the instru
mental textures, but mainly because it
isn't self-consciously mellow, like most
mainstream ballads. Odyshape sounds lit
tle like any other rock music today; the
arrangments are loose and semi-improvi-sational.
The album's only weakness is the sound;
it's not as well-recorded and shiny
sounding as Party Mix, and the vocals are
often obscured by the poor mix.
The album's highlights are four songs.
"Shouting Out Loud" starts out as a
slow reggae tune, but speeds up,
spearheaded by Aspinall's arco and pizzi
cato violin. "Family Treet" features Birch
on bowed upright bass, which gives the
tune an unusually-shaped groove. "Only
Loved at Night," featuring kalimba, violin
and percussion, is the album's best track,
with its recurring theme that sounds
vaguely Greek or Middle Eastern, and a
tricky beat. .
Carolina Action film series starts
Carolina Action is sponsoring a series
of six classic films that begins today with
Francois Truffaut's Shoot The Piano Player,
a homage to American gangster films that
stars Charles Aznavour.
The film will be shown at 7 and 9 p.mi
today at the Wesley Foundation, 214 Pitts
boro St.
The series will continue with Alain Res
nais' Hiroshima Mon Amour on Sept. 24,
Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes on
Oct. 1, Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew
Too Much (the original version) on Oct.
8, Henri Georges Clouzot's Diabolique on
Oct. 15 and Nicholas Ray's Rebel Without
A Cause on Oct. 22
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