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Horace Silver Jazz Has a Sense of Humor (Verve/Universal) The grandfather of hard bop delivers nine new compositions. Foot tappin'! 9 (LD) Various Ragga Ragga Ragga 14 (Greensleeves) Dis here compilation is one dat you mus check deeply. Track 'pon track of serious dancehall riddims. 8 (SC) Billy Bragg Reaching to the Converted (Universal) Boss B-sides to ol' British singles and other tasty sundries. "But then 'e grew 'is 'air and I stopped lovin' 'im." 8 (CY) Richard O'Brien Absolute O'Brien (Oglio/Koch) Rocky Horror's Riff Raff reconstructed into a silky-smooth lounge lizard with a creepy-crawly Crowley thing going on. 7.5 (RB) Breathless Blue Moon (Tenor Vossa) Not that rare a thing: drug/space trance rock in the vein of Spacemen 3 and offshoots. Pretty good regardless. 7 (RB) Various Ill Mentals EP (Wanbli) Chance 1 on some super-scientifical-madness, Manchilde and Len on Dave 1 and not enough Dee! Watch out for she! 6.5 (SC) Tori Amos To Venus and Back (Atlantic/Warner) So Tori is from Venus. That must be why men are from Mars. 6 (CY) Andromeda See Into the Stars (Saraja/Oasis) We are not responsible for nausea experienced while riding the time machine back to the days of hirsute, acid-soaked blues rock. 6 (RB) Marc Anthony Self-titled (Columbia/Sony) No, not the Montreal house DJ. Yes, the American house and salsa star who forsakes la vida loca for el primo schlocka. 5 (CY) Nancy Griffith With the London Symphony Orchestra The Dust Bowl Symphony (Elektra/Warner) A dust bowl symphony? Is that like a Holocaust comedy? 2 (CY) Jimmie's Chicken Shack Bring Your Own Stereo (Rocket/Universal) Certified grade F farm-frosh whitebread dread-cred beer tent "party" rock. Cluck, cluck, cluck--these guys suck. 1 (RB)
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