November 23, 1998 SOUNDSCAPE Over The Edge Page 7

B.B.’s mastery of his
guitar is pleasing and
ingenious to listen to.
His band is incredible
too. It is obvious that
they know each other
down to the last chord.
Says B.B., “When I sing
| play [Lucille] in my
mind; the minute | stop
singing orally, | start to
sing by playing Lucille.”
In case you haven't
guessed yet, Lucille is
the name which B.B.
has lovingly given to
each one of his guitars
after a disaster during a
performance in Twist,
Arkansas in the mid
1950's. Two man got
into a fight and know-
cked over a kerosene
stove, setting fire to the
hall. Everyone made it
to safety outdoors, but
B.B. realized that he
had left his beloved $30
acoustic guitar inside.
He ran back inside to
recover it, narrowly
escaping death in the

The

process. Later on, he
discovered the fight had
been started over a
woman named Lucille.
He decided to give her
name to his guitar. A bit

of B.B. trivia.
In B.B. King’s own
words, “Red, white,

black, brown, yellow,
rich, poor, we all have
the blues” and there is
no better time to have
them than while you are
listening to his master-
piece Blues On The
Bayou.
-Kevin Milos

Beck

Mutations
(Geffen/Universal)

MAX

He’s back again...and
now for something com-
pletely different. After
Mellow Gold = and
Odelay, Beck fans all
over may be expecting
another “channel-surf-
ing” album, varying in
intensity between song
and song. In fact,
Mutations lends itself to
maintaining more of a
consistence between
each song. “...some-
times there’s that one
album which has one
mood through it, and
when you're in_ that
mood you just wanna
hear that.” says the
great master Beck him-
self.

There is even more of
a concentration on
Beck’s voice in this
album. If ever we
though that we would
see the sentimental side

-of him, this is where you

will find it. Partly, Beck
attributes this to the fact
that the songs were

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written before he went
to the recording studio,
unlike previous albums
where the entire album
was hashed out from
scratch in the studio
itself. The significance
of this is that there was
more of a concentration
on making Mutations
more dynamic and per-
formance-like, resulting
in a completely different
sound. Beck recalls
singing the lyrics on
Odelay through a guitar
amp mic, simply
because he wanted to
get out of the studio
after eighteen hours of
recording. Not this
time!

The neat thing is that
although the entire
album is mellow and
decidedly “un-Beck-
like”, based on his pre-
vious albums, the band
manages to incorporate
all of the neat and funky
sounds which they are
so famous for, with song

styles (although consis-
tently mellow) ranging
from folk to country to
bossa-nova.

Says Beck himself,
“This is the headphone
record, the Walkman
record - more for those
mid-afternoon reveries
we all enjoy when we're
tumbling through the
high green grasses or
meadows.” This is hard
to back up if one hasn't
been tumbling through
meadows lately, but if
you're in dire need
some mellow, yet funky
tunes to accompany
you on those long
stretches studying for
midterms, then pre-
scribe yourself this disc.

-Kevin Milos

Pop Goes Dance
Various

(EMI)

Here it is! The newest
remix CD of your
favorite pop tunes has
finally arrived in a top
forty dance remix for-
mat. Finally, you can
bring all the cheese of a
top forty dance club
home, thanks to various
contributing DJ’s who

have taken it upon
themselves to monoto-
nize contemporary
music with techno over-
tones.

Despite the obvious
uncreativeness of these
mixes, Pop Goes Dance
is a fun mix which finds
merit in the selection
and compilation of the
various songs. With
remixes of songs such
as Stop by the Spice
Girls, Meredith Brooks’
Bitch, and Los
Umbrellos’ No Tengo
Dinero, the CD makes
an instant dance party
CD if you are stuck in a
jam trying to get your-
self a DJ. The beats are
well done, never break-
ing a danceable pace.
Although remixing pop
CD’s doesn’t demand
the highest level of cre-
ativity, it nevertheless is
a talent unto itself, and
is becoming more and
more of a cash grab for
record companies. Hey,
if you can release a
song twice, just
changed a bit, then
what's wrong with mak-
ing twice the money

while you're at it?

Nevertheless, if you're
shopping for a produc-
tion line top forty club
type remix album which
allows you to get down
to the beat, then this is a
CD which you will no
doubt thoroughly enjoy.
It’s top forty techno!

-Kevin Milos

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