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Reviews Moonlight Records Local label sports three new albums By TIM MOONEY Be Somebody, Roily Gray and Sunfire Secret Service, Secret Service Lively, Arrogance Chapel Hill, beer-drinking capital of the world, is also the distinguished home of a, lesser-known institution: Moonlight Records. The Moonlight label is sported by three re cently produced discs of Chapel Hill-area bands, Roily Gray and Sunfire, Secret Ser vice and Arrogance. Trinidadian Roily Gray malces an extremely impressive showing on his four-song Be Some body EP. Each of the four songs could actu ally be classified into four different musical categories, as Roily and Sunfire display their adeptness with calypso, reggae, and soul. The title cut is a funky, get-down-and-party number, with skipping, hopping melodies backboning a great dance beat Rolly's stel lar vocal range climaxes the album's high point in "Loving You One More Time," a song which could only come across with a native West Indian affecting the love-crazed cry. The dabbling keyboards and shuffling percussion section give an ecstatic calypso rhythm to "Soca Jam." As diverse as Be Somebody is, it's strongly reinforced by the sheer ease and comforta bility with which Roily Gray and Sunfire' adapt each of the four musical styles. Diver sity means nothing if competence is lacking, which isnt the case here at all. This is a pro fessional outfit possessing an engaging, unique sound. As much as Roily has traveled, let's hope he'll settle down in Chapel Hill for awhile. Secret Service is a band whose four-song EP you could pick up, examine the group photos, song titles, design, and for some re a- -son know exactly what the album will sound like Well, this record fell below even my meager expectations, and can only be rated as mainstream rock at its very worst The en tire output, production as well as the band's ' performance is downright pallid. Secret Service labors, drags, and stumbles through four songs loaded with all the flair and verve of a dead mule. The result is four uninteresting, half-hearted love songs that don't even merit the vinyl they're produced upon. ' The vocals on three of the four songs sound as if the singer's standing behind a brick wall. In the fourth, "As the World Turns" you wish the vocals were behind a wall: As the world goes down the drain no one ever learns that you and I won't feel the pain as the world turns. If a best cut had to be awarded on Secret Service, it would go to "She's Dangerous" simply because it's the shortest Arrogance's Lively is a sixteen-song live compilation on three album sides, recorded on two consecutive nights. A couple of high points exist but as far as live albums go Lively falls flat The refreshingly varying keyboards excel throughout particularly on the Springsteen ish "Backseat Rider." Surprisingly, the reg- The Best Restaurant in Chapel Hill isn't in Chapel Hill . . . We Feature: l Fresh Seafood Dinners Gourmet Beef & Chicken Dishes Variety of Sandwiches Informal Relaxed Atmosphere RED BARON J RfITAUUIT Uuigi Giant Screen TV Separate Lounge Ample Parking Homemade Desserts MIXED BEVERAGES HOURS 4-1 MON.-S AT. Jones Ferry Rd., Across from Old Well Apts., Carrboro, N.C. 49 MIKE LEARY 929-8404 fLii ' " -u j mi mi m i in rT i ii x.'r"t DEBBIE WEIR It's Always A TOUCHDOWN For You With Flowers Parent's Love Flowers Too LYWT'S FL 310 VV. Franklin St. OIRIST S57-9394 gae number "Me No Know" is extremely well conceived, and dwarfs everything else on the album. Considering the small venues at which the disc was cut and the limited post production work, the overall sound is crisp and polished. , However, there are a lot more drawbacks than high points on Lively. Opening with a sludged-out cover of Barrett Strong's , "Money" is a mistake, and sets a slow, plod ding tempo for the entire first side. In fact, the obvious problem with Lively is that it never even gets off the ground at all. The arrangement of songs is choppy and disjointed, and severely cramps any flow or continuity that Arrogance may have devel oped. A semi-climax comes with the final two songs on the third side, but you probably will have discarded the album by this time. It's not a whole lot of fun slamming local bands like this, but there's no point in giving credit where none is due. - jj Tim Mooney is a staff writer for The Daily iTar Heel. 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