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The Battalion
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olo Plant enters ‘Manic Nirvana’
with departure from familiar style
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ROBERT PLANT
Manic Nirvana
Atlantic Records
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I would be highly surprised if
Robert Plant came out with anything
less than a really good album.
His latest release, Manic Nirvana,
picks up where Now and Zen left
off, ana takes musical trips hereto
fore unexplored by Plant in his solo
apacity.
first track, “Hurting Kind,”
sounds similar to “Tall Cool One”
from Now and Zen, but the similar
ity doesn’t continue through the rest
of the album. The remaining tracks
encompass pure, hard-driving selec
tions as well as more relaxed, eso
teric cuts.
Plant makes good use of his re
sources. The band is the same one
which recorded Now and Zen. They
are: Chris Blackwell (drums), Doug
Boyle (guitars), Phil Johnstone (key
boards), Charlie Jones (bass) and
Plant (vocals).
Manic Nirvana proves the versatil
ity of these guys. It’s clear that when
they went into the studio they
weren’t trying to “be different.”
Many banas, when entering the stu
dio, suffer from trying to build a bet
ter mousetrap in musical terms.
They say, “Let’s do something
really cool and different — a real
ear-catcher,” instead of trying to
strive for musical excellence. Plant
and company avoided that syn
drome.
They took their talents, set some
high musical goals and achieved
them, disregarding the norms which
permeate some areas of rock music.
I’m not saying these guys aren’t
concerned with selling records, it’s
just not their first priority. They’re
trying to make good music first, and
they’re succeeding.
But then again, all of Plant’s solo
albums have shined brightly. He
first came out with Pictures At
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Doug Boyle, drummer Chris Blackwell, bassist
Charlie Jones and keyboardist Phil Johnstone.
Eleven in 1982 and followed it up
with his best solo effort in 1983, The
Principle of Moments. Nineteen
eighty-five saw the release of Shaken
TV Stirred, a fantastic album, and
then of course, Now and Zen hit the
stands in 1988.
Plant breaks new ground on
Manic Nirvana with an acoustic gui
tar piece, “Liars Dance.” The guitar
is accompanied only by Plant’s
smooth voice.
He also pays tribute to the Woods
tock festival. At the beginning of
“Tie Dye On The Highway,” crowd
noise fades in and the words uttered
during the early morning hours at
Woodstock follow: “What we have in
mind is breakfast in bed for
400,000.”
On Now and Zen, Plant incorpo
rated samples from selected Led
Zeppelin songs. He used pieces of
“Black Dog”, “T he Ocean” and “W-
hole Lotta Love” on “Tall Cool
One,” and he pulls the same trick
(sort of) on “Your Ma Said You
Cried In Your Sleep Last Night”
from Manic Nirvana. That song con
tains words from “Black Dog.”
Now and Zen was the hrst time
Plant did anything with his solo
material remotely related to Led
Zeppelin, and it wasn’t until that
tour that he played any Zep songs in
concert.
One has to have sympathy for
him, as he is constantly bombarded
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said Bryan City Councilman Bob Reese. The
two governments will be looking at solutions
including recycling, he said.
“We don’t want to just bury it,” Reese said.
Although reasons to recycle abound, it doesn’t
pay much. The going rate for glass is about 2
cents per pound, and paper pays anywhere from
$5 per ton for newsprint to $40 per ton for white
paper.
? ‘(But) the more people recycle, the more recy
cling operations there will be and lessen the need
to rape our own resources,” Albert said.
Some local recycling operations include:
• Brazos Animal Shelter. Provides 24-hour
drop-off for bagged, bundled or tied newspapers
or computer paper. Call 775-5755 for address
and assistance.
• Brazos Beautiful Inc., and Bryan Iron and
Metal. These businesses operate four 24-hour
drop-off sites for glass and aluminum. The drop
off sites are at Academy and Skaggs Alpha-Beta
in College Station, and at John’s Katfish Kitchen
(near Wal-Mart in Bryan) and §ue Haswell Park
in Bryan. Call 696-5391 or 775-7171 for more in
formation.
Bryan Iron and Metal also buys almost all
kinds of scrap metal except tin cans. Their num
ber is 775-7171.
• Brazos Beverages Inc. Buys aluminum cans
only. 775-6322.
• Bruegging Paper Stock. Buys clean, rigid
plastic, all grades of paper, aluminum cans and
glass. 822-2473.
• City of Bryan Solid Waste Department. The
city does not pick up recyclables but provides in
formation and assistance for people who need to
dispose of used items. 361 -3631.
• City of College Station Solid Waste Depart
ment. Accepts used motor oil and car batteries.
764-3690.
• The Deluxe and Cafe Eccell. Provides 24-
hour drop-off site for glass, aluminum, newspa
pers and cardboard. 846-7466.
• Twin City Mission. Recycles all grades of pa
per, glass, rags, appliances, furniture and any
thing else that possibly can be reused. 822-7511.
• Valley Recyclers. Buys aluminum cans and
glass. 775-9800.
A more complete list is available from the
Texas Environmental Action Coalition. For more
information, call Mike Worsham at 846-8748 or
Mary Albert at 846-6767.
The Association of
Former Students
Spring Senior
Induction Banquet
Tuesday St Wednesday, April 10 & 11, 1990
6:30 p.m.
MSC-rooms 212-226
All Play & August '90 graduates are invited.
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TICKETS GIVEN ON FIRST COME ■ FIRST SERVED BASIS
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with questions about a Led Zeppelin
reunion tour.
He, along with Jimmy Page and
Phil Collins on drums played Live
Aid. Then he and Page and John
Paul Jones, with Jason Bonham on
drums, played in May 1988 at the
Atlantic Records 40tn anniversary
concert in New York’s Madison
Square Garden.
Still, he has insisted repeatedly
that a Zep reunion tour will never
happen. The sad thing is that he is
continually hounded about it.
In the meantime, however, he
continues to churn out good music
— something he does very well —
and Manic Nirvana is testament to
that.
Does your major field or future career involve parts
of the globe beyond the boundaries of Texas? If so,
study about those areas by enrolling in one of the
regional geography courses offered next fall.
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political, and physical aspects of the region.
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graphic personality of the United States.
THE DIVIDED WORLD—GEOG 202—Resources,
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