The Battalion ctoberl RPOLE- riday • October 24, 1997 Death gives new life to Pixies , rock at we at: respons- iterpok: 1 if Sdl I dor. be seer: Death to the Pixies The Pixies Elektra Records ★★★★ (out of five) Y es, children,” parents c Riri/tc- w wiU sa Y 111 the future, sslviuisn JL “there was a time NTERPOL: wht n Frank Black, the artist formerly known as Black Fran- ds, the artist formerly known as :i thegroi Charles Thompson iy walked among us on die earth.” aid thee#! Frank Black, singer, song- ed from; writer and real American ge- is. H.is behind the Pixies current- sitytoolclylives in outer space. From 6 becais his star-lit vantage point, Black agmatei. can look down upon the mor- d. tals spooking their way e cone?:: through the macabre Hal id centep loween season. Black has a the bad; special treat for the kids this year, and it happens to be a the eve ghost story... poleareifL: It was a dark and stormy worker ; Monday night. Death to the Bx/'es, a 2-CD eulogy of the Pix- •anenv ies’ sacred canon from 1987- i centerpof 1991, had quietly crept onto knowalie the shelves of the local record the main; stores. scenten).!? Black Francis left the Pixies sometfet| explore a solo career as really raBank Black, where he penned !” B n 8 s such as “Czar,” his bitter- &eet tribute to John Denver. K Less than one week after n busing ^ 1(: release of Death to the Pix- jletedhbfe- a plane in California crash- uindlatf ii es down from a Rocky Moun- jin high. Death to the Pixies has angasaaj plenty more ghosts in its graveyard. Sure, the Pixies tore rock ‘n’ roll a new blow hole, drew the blueprints for grunge and launched a thousand bands, but they also stole from the best of them. Death to the Pixies, with 17 tracks of “greatest hits” and 21 tracks of live performances, lays all the cards on the table. The album opens with “Ce cilia Ann,” an innocent ‘60s surf tune so rocket powered it makes the Surftones original rendition look like a fizzy bot tle rocket. Frank Black created buzz- saw tone poems, yin and yang pop songs of the sacred and profane, the soft and hard, drawing inspiration from Sal vador Dali films, his student ex change days in Puerto Rico and his Pentecostal upbringing. His friend and lead guitarist Joey Santiago made even wank guitar seem sparse. Black’s screaming vocals were angeli cally harmonized by Kim Deal on bass. David Lovering held it all together with precision drumming firing off like can nons on the 1812 Overture. When the first piano was in troduced, it blew the minds of the baroque harpsichord crowd because it could go from whis per to scream in half a heart beat, like the human voice. The Pixies share these same dy namics. They made sforzando their calling card, laying the foundation for soft-verse, loud- chorus bands like Nirvana. “Smells Like Teen Spirit” may owe more to the chorus of Boston’s “More Than a Feel ing,” but without the Pixies, to day’s AlternaTeens© would have their bedroom walls cov ered with posters of Geddy Lee and Carl Palmer. Please see Pixies on Page 4. erved a#::> in the 1;^; o CollefrP^ as servei ident M ,993. said h inform; :ollege. s total s on this ) help,' iringthis: and built; lOFANOn The national organization ‘Jews for Jesus’ believes in Jesus as the Messiah, but still keeps Jewish traditions, holidays and customs By Rhonda Reinhart Staff writer I esus was a Jew, and the New Tes tament is based on the premise that Jesus is the promised Messi- which is the basic belief of Chris tianity. The Jewish faith does not rec ognize this belief, so when an organization emerges calling itself Jews for Jesus, confusion and con troversy are inevitable responses. Jews for Jesus began in September 1973 in the San Francisco Bay area. The organization has a staff of 140 people dispersed throughout nine countries with branches in 16 cities worldwide. Susan Perlman, assistant to the executive director of Jews for Jesus, said the organization is not a church, but a group of Jews who believe Jesus is the promised Messiah. “We believe Jesus died for our sins, rose from the dead and that by believing in him, we have eternal life,” she said. “There are probably 50,000 Jews in the United States who believe in Jesus.” The word “Judaism” has two equally legitimate mean ings: the Jewish civilization and Jewish religion. Members of Jews for Jesus consider them selves Jews, even though they be lieve in Jesus, because they were born Jews and because they con tinue in the Jewish traditions. Many celebrate Jewish holidays and prac tice Jewish customs. But the theology behind Jews for Jesus represent mainstream Christian thought. Every person on the staff is a member of an evangelical congrega tion, and together they represent many denominations. Jews for Jesus missionaries are required to have the same Bible training that would qual ify them for service in most churches or foreign missionaries. However, in the Concise Guide to Judaism, Roy A. Rosenberg writes that from the standpoint of Ju daism, it is a great sin for a Jew to become an adherent of another religion. “When a Jew does ed by Abraham.” Rabbi Peter Tarlow of the Hillel Foundation, an organization for Jew ish students at Texas A&M, said any time a Jew worships a human being, he ceases to be Jewish. “Jews for Jesus is a contradiction of terms,” he said. “It’s the equivalent of Christians so,” he writes, “he abrogates the covenant that links him to his God and his people, the obliga tion that he and his descendants have to preserve the heritage initiat- for Buddhism or scholars for ig norance.” Tarlow said Jews for Jesus is a group of Christians who are trying to convert Jews. FROM Learning TO five i real s ,: )n Edit® iitor Editor litor >r anager 3rd Calls*; fines,]®' ton, DoW :kson,A«iH' lall Kell! erek DeW'i Earning College was your training ground. This is your proving ground. 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