Thursday, November 11,1993
The Battalion
Page 5
_ Jk
LS
Kate Bush s ‘The Bed Shoes... ’
1 1 • •
By Jacqueline Ayotte
The Battalion
"The Red Shoes"
Kate Bush
Soft Pop Rock
Columbia Records
Kate Bush's mu
sic has always fall
en in a category
all its own.
Not poppy,
not bluesy, but
more like slow
rock with a
jazzy overtone.
Her voice
has always
been distinctive
ly high, yet
smooth to the
sound.
Sort of like a calm,
classy version of Cyndi
La u per.
But it seems Bush's new
album, "The Red Shoes," carries a
mixture of her musical traits to such an
extent that trying to define it becomes
impossible.
Maybe it's because she hasn't released
an album in over three years, or maybe
it's because "The Red Shoes" is based as
the soundtrack to her soon to be released
film, "The Line, The Cross, The Curve."
Whatever the reason may be, "The
Red Shoes" falls somewhere between
fascinating and disappointing.
Every slow song on the album sounds
beautifully tender and deeply real.
But the fast songs are nothing more
than dry and irritating.
For instance, the song "Rub-
berband Girl," though full
of lively music, drowns
out the beauty of her
voice. She starts to
sound like a cheap
version of Lauper,
and this isn't
pleasant.
The title
song, "The Red
Shoes" has the
same effect.
Luckily, the
true flavor of
her sound
comes through
in soft songs like
Moments of Plea
sure."
Her voice dances
along to the instruments,
like a ballerina gracefully
flowing through a routine.
Every word is real and unadorned, yet
magical at the same time.
But again, the fast songs get lost in a
plethora of poppy noise.
Maybe there will be answers to this
drastic transformation in her musical
style once her new film is released.
As for now, my advice would be to
buy the album, fall in love with the soft
tunes, and fast forward through the an
noying ones.
: ■
TOM CRUISE
THE
FIRM
I !'iin ih iri i
.CCPVRiGiin 1993 8V PARAMOUNT
Thursday @ 7:00 & 9:45, Saturday @ Midnight
Please note: Due to the rescheduling of the
football game this Saturday, there will be only
one showing of The Firm on Saturday night.
All shows presented in Rudder Auditorium -
The largest screen in the Brazos Valley!
Persons with disabilities please call us 3 working days prior to the film
to enable us to assist you to the best of our ability.
MSC
FILM
SOCIETY
OF TEXAS A&M
Questions? Call...
MSC Box Office 845-1234
MSC Student Programs Office
845-1515
.JJL. A Memorial Student Center
Student Programs Committee
ADMISSION: $2.50
Advance tickets available for
all shows at MSC Box Office
Sinatra pairs up and falls flat
J
111
■
By Anas Ben-Musa
The Battalion
"Duets"
Frank Sinatra
Classic Pop
Capitol Records
I gotta new album for you, mister. It's
wild, kooky fun. . . babe.
With that unique delivery and talent
ed voice, Frank "Of Blue Eyes" Sinatra is
back with "Duets."
But "The Chairman of the Board" is
not calling the shots by himself this time.
He has some of today's most talented vo
calists to sing some of his most popular
tunes. Singers like Luther Vandross,
Aretha Franklin, Barbra Streisand, Natal
ie Cole, Anita Baker and Sinatra's good
friend Tony Bennett; but Sinatra still
does it his way with that legendary style.
Frank can't be Frank without that big
orchestra playing hard and furious while
he delivers such well known songs like
"New York, New York," "The Lady is a
Tramp," "They Can't Take That Away
From Me," "Witchcraft" and many others.
Yet, in the monumentous effort to
blend such diverse singing and musical
styles, "Duets" at times sounds awkward.
See Frank/Page 6
=1
i
d
_
Catch the
Kings!
Just back
from their
West Coast Tour!
inD
rCOR
P»DANCING SKELETONS®
LIFE AND DEATH IN WEST AFRICA
T his personal account by a biocultural anthropologist illuminates important, not-
soon-forgotten messages involving the more sobering aspects of conducting
fieldwork among malnourished children in West Africa, With nutritional anthropology
at its core. Dancing Skeletons presents informal, engaging, and oftentimes dramatic
stories from the field which relate the author's experiences conducting research on
infant feeding and child health in Mali. Through fascinating vignettes and honest, vivid
descriptions, Dettwyler explores such diverse topics as ethnocentrism. culture shock,
population control, breastfeeding, child care, the meaning of disability and child death
in different cultures, female circumcision, women's roles in patrilineal societies, the
dangers of fieldwork, and the realities
involved in researching emotionally draining
topics. Readers will alternately laugh and cry
as they meet the author's friends and
informants, follow her through a series of
encounters with both peri-urban and rural
Bambara culture, and struggle with her as
she attempts to reconcile her very different
roles as objective ethnographer, subjective
friend, and mother in the field.
14=113
1 Return to the Field
2 Of Mosquitoes and Men
3 Female Circumcision: Not Just Another
Bit of Exotic Ethnographic Trivia
4 Of Worms and Other Parasites
5 The Grande Marche
6 Rural Africa at Last
7 Children, Snakes, and Death
8 Bad Breath. Gangrene, and God's Angels
9 Poulet Bicyclette
10 I Give You Rural Africa
11 Turtles All the Way Down
12 Dancing Skeletons
13 Mother Love and Child Death
14 Postscript, 1993
KATHERINE A. DETTWYLER
iiiiaji
MEET THE AUTHOR
KATHERINE A. DETTWYLER
who will be autographing her book
Saturday, Nov. 13th, 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
at your Texas ASM Bookstore in the Memorial Student Center
3rd Floor Cantina
201 W. 26th St. • Downtown Bryan • 823-2368
THURSDAY NIGHT • NOVEMBER 11th
Happy Hour 5-8
$5. Tickets go on sale at 8 pm
MSC TOWN HALL AND ALPHA PHI ALPHA PRESENT
■owl
In Advance $10
At the Door $12
HI
PHI
ALPHA
IYPE
JL/Eii
IPSYNC
JAM
Box dice oftiy pine al 845'1234 lllt#l!!