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4-The Daily Collegian Review November 9,19&1 Ramones: just 'too tough to die 1977. In the rock world, all eyes are on London — which is in the middle of a musical and stylistic revolt called "Punk Rock." Great bands like the Sex Pistols, The Clash, and The Jam are springing into life virtually overnight. Meanwhile, in New York, a different scene is happen¬ ing - a scene that goes back two or three years and is based around a club called is less tumultous than the anarchy going on in London, it is no less interesting — after all, no one ever accused New York of burning with boredom. What New York did have in 1977 was a lot of great bands: Talking Heads, Televi¬ sion, Blondie and Ramones, f The Clash (maybe) s English punks — thai scene dissolvinf under the weight of its own chaos — Tele¬ vision's Tom Verlaine. Ramones'and Talking Heads have all put albums oul recently Good albums, loo. as opposed tc Billy Idol's punk posing. Johnny Rotten Lydon's obnoxious dancing, and Paul Weller's stylistic boredom. So maybe because the New York "punk" scene was less crazy and had more direction, the sur¬ vivors of that scene have consistently made better music than their London counterparts. The Ramones just keep rolling along. Too Tough to Die, their ninth album, stays in the grand Ramones tradition of faster louder pop music. IVe always felt that the Ramones' musical output could be summed by the statement "a straight line is the shortest distance between two points."On Too Tough To Die, Ramones just keep on truckin' down that line with just a few detours for hits-that-will-never- be ("Howling at the Moon,""Chasing the Night"), pseudo-hardcore ("Wart Hog," "Danger Zone"and "Endless Vacation"), and Ramonesongs ("Daytime Dilemma," "No Go"). Too Tough To Die is not the greatest Ramones'album, and it certainly wont make any new converts. (The fact that the "Rock and Roll High School" movie didn't catapult them into super- stardom has been cited as proof that there is no God.) I'm sure that existing Ramones •Stress Continued from page 3 but it went up ten points alter stu had two or three cups of coffee. Ihe average blood pressure of th dents who had taken no caffeine wa over 65 before the test and 127 ov when the tesl was over But after two of coffee, after-test blood pressures aged l35ov " than 140 over 90 is considered high. Lane also found some correlation be¬ tween hypertension and unusually large blood pressure increases during stressful situations. Hesuggested that further study of the detrimental effects of stress and caffeine on the cardiovascular system could aid in ihe "prevention and man¬ agement of cardiovascular disease." The study was presented October 21 at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research in Mil- fans that have stuck it out this long will find Too Tough To Die a worthy addition to their collections. My other Ramones albums haven't been complaining. Of all of the bands to come from New York's 1977 scene, perhaps the one with the most potential was Television. Based on the guitar tension of Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd, Television at times soared above the stratosphere, especially on side one of their 1977 debut. Marquee Moon. After a disappointing follow-up, Adven¬ ture, Television broke up and Tom_Ver- laine began to record as a solo artist. Like the Television albums, Tom's first two solo albums, Tom Verlaine and Dream- lime, are lost guitar classics. You see, no other rock guitarist on the planet can put together a solo like Verlaine. And those first two solo albums were full of tense, -dramatic guitar overdubs based around some great songs. But they went unno¬ ticed, just like the two Television albums, possibly because Verlaine's thin, whining voice is an acquired taste and his lyrics have a tendency to float off toward his guitar. 1982's Words From the Front was a bit of a comedown with the intensity of his earlier work replaced by more of an atmospheric sound. It wasn't bad, it just didnt reach the heights of his previous Tom's latest solo album, Cover, is a definite comeback. It's filled with the usual Verlaine style: hypnotic riffs tum¬ bling over and over each other with the guitar overdubs at the end providing release. But like the Ramones, Verlaine isnt going to win any new fans. This music is as resolutely uncommercial as his pre¬ vious work. Still, Verlaine afficionados will like "Five Miles of You," "Lindi-Lu," and "Miss Emily." Nevertheless, it will be in the discount bins within a year. Talking Heads are considered by mu. critics to be America's premier b»m I nnovative and clever, the T—Heads havt pursued lead singer David Byrne's uni^ vision over the course of seven albums sod a number of stylistic variations on their intelligent dance music. . The Talking Heads movie soundtrack. Stop Making Sense, is a strange move fa a-strange band. Another live album* Shades ofthe Grateful Dead or BlueOyv ter Cult. Especially because their 1982 live album, 77i« Name of this Band is Talki^ Heads, is definitive. Furthermore, p repeats three songs from that and ii psychotic. On the other hand, it is a p career move — collecting all of their: gles on one record and if the film i success, the record could ride on its e< There are a couple of good moraem here: the acoustic funk of "Psycho (Ciller,* auxiliary keyboardist Bernie Wortll'i super-bad synth solo on "Burning Don House." But the overallimpact Urrtu ure it will be when ll t. Stop Making Sense we r T— H eads fa ns ntlw nes, though it's no ; 1'rr directedatthei than tbe older record by any So seven years after they initially on the music scene, these original Nes York "punk rockers'" creative music. And though none ofthese albums represent new peaks for (in Ramones case, how can a straight lint have a peak?), they are all very good even more importantly, none are ( close to being stylistic compromise! overtly commerical sell-outs.' And thiii more than some of their mc London brethren can claim. PWYRiTS OH PARADE 5 Tower Theatre fc 485-9050 Students $3.00 Separate Admissions! *V*^*JT**AT***AT*jrM*TJeT*TATme*TAW*K SENIORS \ Read The Daily Collegian \ BULLDOGS GO FOR IT! Wear your own custom engraved dog tag 14K gold overlay with a 24" herringbone chain Quantities limited. YOU INTH YEARBOOK EARNED IT! bULLDOCt $15.00 each. Add $2.00 Tor tax and handling. Enclose check or money order) D& V Graphics P.O. Box 708 Clovis, Ca 936/3 CALL NOW SIGN UP TODAY SITTINGS START NOV. 5 NO SITTING CHARGE Applications now/ available for Spring Semester Editorship for -Dailq Collegian -la Voz de Aztlan -Uhuru Ha Umojo -ftqe Sharzhoom -Sage , Requirements include: 'Completed application 'Three letters of recommendation 'Statement of proposed policq Applications available in CU 316, or call 294-2656. Deadline is November 21.1984 November 9,1984 The Daily CoflegU^-5 A rtistpaints women's struggle for freedom In a chicken coop on Bar¬ stow Ave., CSUF art stu¬ dent Jennifer Colby works on a banner that will be In her exhibit "Women: Spirit, Blood and Strunk" which will be presented at Gallery 25 from Dee. 7 to Dec. 3D. 77ie woman was walking along the road by herself when the policemen drove by. Stopping their jeep, the officers got oul and told the woman she was charged with being a prostitute. They would have to take her to the local station, they said It did not matter that the woman didn't solicit herself for a living. She would have to go downtown anyway. When they got her to the station, the men raped, the woman repeatedly. Nine months later at one of Argentina s Aband¬ oned Pregnant Woman's Centers, she gave birth lo a child. The I wo of them would be separated forever — the child being a relentless symbol of a tortured past the woman would never forget. It has been four years since CSUF art student Jennifer Colby met the woman. . Colbj was doing missionary work at the Abandoned Pregnant Women's Center in 1980 when Argentina was in the throes of military rule. •She remembers the woman as "being upset, not knowing who the father was," but also as one of many Argentinian women with "police babies." For her graduate project, Colby hopes to pay tribute to this woman and the many like her who have suffered at the hands of "Indifferent and often hostile societies. On Dec. 7-30 at Gallery 25 on Fulton Ave., Colby will present a one-woman show, "Women: Spirit, Blood and Struggle." The exhibit will feature nine banners representative of nine different Hispanic women from Central and South America and the United States. "The show is about women 1 have met in my work," Colby said. The banners are painted in acrylic on muslin fabric and feature collages — "pieces of these wo¬ men's lives, their struggle for freedom against odds of torture and imprison- Colby has a special fondness for His¬ panic women because of her overseas experiences with them, she .-aid. Aside from being a missionary intern in Argen¬ tina for 18 months, Colby made two trips to Nicaragua in 1984. "1 think 1 learned a lot about women, U.S. intervention overseas, racism, and how those issues are interrelated," she said of her travels. She added that! there is a tendency for women to b that, their geographic differences that they do not share the same stm woman's issue,' but women throughout the Americas struggle for the same things," she said. "When I was in Chile, I looked at the mountains and thought how similar they were to the ones in California. When it comes to women, 1 want them to see that connection. 1 hope to get those who think of themselves as feminists to think of women of color." Colby is aware of the strong political t hemes behi nd her banners and said it was a challenge to make a "universal artistic statement rather than propaganda." "With Modern Art, we're moving away now from the purely abstract to some¬ thing more personal," she said. "Being a graduate student and working with Modern Art issues, I wanted to be able to do something where it comes off as art, as being personal." The result was the .banners. All of Colby's banners are dominated by a single color the artist says is "significant." A window or "passageway" is at the center of each work. The banner symbolizing the -raped woman of Argentina is cast in deep blue, a hue renowned for its pressing, sad quality. At the center is a broken mirror. "I want women to look at their own image broken," Colby said ofthe banner's purpose. "As women you are supposed to be protected by police, but if you are in a society that's militaristic... It's saying, 'This could happen to you.' ** Most of the banners follow the same theme of conflict. The work symbolizing El Salvador is Army green in color and the window is intertwined wire, depicting a border. Another banner is cast in black and the center is dominated by black lace. "I met a woman on a Honduras- Nicaragua border town," Colby said of the story behind the piece. "She had recently lost her husband and said that the town was named after him." Of the nine banners, only the one representing Nicaragua is a "hopeful"one with a clear window, Colby said. ] "I met this woman whose whole life was changed by the Revolution," she said. "There is a saying that without women, there is no revolution. In Nicaragua, be¬ cause womep participated with the men in the Revolution, there is health-care, day¬ care and literacy now." Colby said she spent half of this semes¬ ter "really thinking [her projects] out." She has been spending six to eight hours every Monday, Wednesday and Friday working on the banners in a weather- beaten chicken coop on Barstow Ave.
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Title | 1984_11 The Daily Collegian November 1984 |
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Publication Date | 1984 |
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Title | Nov 9, 1984 Pg. 4-5 |
Alternative Title | Daily Collegian (California State University, Fresno) |
Publisher | Associated Students of Fresno State, Fresno, Calif. |
Publication Date | 1984 |
Description | Daily (except weedends) during the school year. Microfilm. Palo Alto, Calif.: BMI Library Microfilms, 1986- microfilm reels; 35 mm. Vol.1, no.1 (Feb 8, 1922)- |
Subject | California State University, Fresno -- Periodicals. |
Contributors | Associated Students of Fresno State. |
Coverage | Vol.1 no.1 (Feb 8, 1922)- to present |
Format | Microfilm reels, 35 mm. |
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Full-Text-Search | 4-The Daily Collegian Review November 9,19&1 Ramones: just 'too tough to die 1977. In the rock world, all eyes are on London — which is in the middle of a musical and stylistic revolt called "Punk Rock." Great bands like the Sex Pistols, The Clash, and The Jam are springing into life virtually overnight. Meanwhile, in New York, a different scene is happen¬ ing - a scene that goes back two or three years and is based around a club called is less tumultous than the anarchy going on in London, it is no less interesting — after all, no one ever accused New York of burning with boredom. What New York did have in 1977 was a lot of great bands: Talking Heads, Televi¬ sion, Blondie and Ramones, f The Clash (maybe) s English punks — thai scene dissolvinf under the weight of its own chaos — Tele¬ vision's Tom Verlaine. Ramones'and Talking Heads have all put albums oul recently Good albums, loo. as opposed tc Billy Idol's punk posing. Johnny Rotten Lydon's obnoxious dancing, and Paul Weller's stylistic boredom. So maybe because the New York "punk" scene was less crazy and had more direction, the sur¬ vivors of that scene have consistently made better music than their London counterparts. The Ramones just keep rolling along. Too Tough to Die, their ninth album, stays in the grand Ramones tradition of faster louder pop music. IVe always felt that the Ramones' musical output could be summed by the statement "a straight line is the shortest distance between two points."On Too Tough To Die, Ramones just keep on truckin' down that line with just a few detours for hits-that-will-never- be ("Howling at the Moon,""Chasing the Night"), pseudo-hardcore ("Wart Hog," "Danger Zone"and "Endless Vacation"), and Ramonesongs ("Daytime Dilemma," "No Go"). Too Tough To Die is not the greatest Ramones'album, and it certainly wont make any new converts. (The fact that the "Rock and Roll High School" movie didn't catapult them into super- stardom has been cited as proof that there is no God.) I'm sure that existing Ramones •Stress Continued from page 3 but it went up ten points alter stu had two or three cups of coffee. Ihe average blood pressure of th dents who had taken no caffeine wa over 65 before the test and 127 ov when the tesl was over But after two of coffee, after-test blood pressures aged l35ov " than 140 over 90 is considered high. Lane also found some correlation be¬ tween hypertension and unusually large blood pressure increases during stressful situations. Hesuggested that further study of the detrimental effects of stress and caffeine on the cardiovascular system could aid in ihe "prevention and man¬ agement of cardiovascular disease." The study was presented October 21 at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research in Mil- fans that have stuck it out this long will find Too Tough To Die a worthy addition to their collections. My other Ramones albums haven't been complaining. Of all of the bands to come from New York's 1977 scene, perhaps the one with the most potential was Television. Based on the guitar tension of Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd, Television at times soared above the stratosphere, especially on side one of their 1977 debut. Marquee Moon. After a disappointing follow-up, Adven¬ ture, Television broke up and Tom_Ver- laine began to record as a solo artist. Like the Television albums, Tom's first two solo albums, Tom Verlaine and Dream- lime, are lost guitar classics. You see, no other rock guitarist on the planet can put together a solo like Verlaine. And those first two solo albums were full of tense, -dramatic guitar overdubs based around some great songs. But they went unno¬ ticed, just like the two Television albums, possibly because Verlaine's thin, whining voice is an acquired taste and his lyrics have a tendency to float off toward his guitar. 1982's Words From the Front was a bit of a comedown with the intensity of his earlier work replaced by more of an atmospheric sound. It wasn't bad, it just didnt reach the heights of his previous Tom's latest solo album, Cover, is a definite comeback. It's filled with the usual Verlaine style: hypnotic riffs tum¬ bling over and over each other with the guitar overdubs at the end providing release. But like the Ramones, Verlaine isnt going to win any new fans. This music is as resolutely uncommercial as his pre¬ vious work. Still, Verlaine afficionados will like "Five Miles of You," "Lindi-Lu," and "Miss Emily." Nevertheless, it will be in the discount bins within a year. Talking Heads are considered by mu. critics to be America's premier b»m I nnovative and clever, the T—Heads havt pursued lead singer David Byrne's uni^ vision over the course of seven albums sod a number of stylistic variations on their intelligent dance music. . The Talking Heads movie soundtrack. Stop Making Sense, is a strange move fa a-strange band. Another live album* Shades ofthe Grateful Dead or BlueOyv ter Cult. Especially because their 1982 live album, 77i« Name of this Band is Talki^ Heads, is definitive. Furthermore, p repeats three songs from that and ii psychotic. On the other hand, it is a p career move — collecting all of their: gles on one record and if the film i success, the record could ride on its e< There are a couple of good moraem here: the acoustic funk of "Psycho (Ciller,* auxiliary keyboardist Bernie Wortll'i super-bad synth solo on "Burning Don House." But the overallimpact Urrtu ure it will be when ll t. Stop Making Sense we r T— H eads fa ns ntlw nes, though it's no ; 1'rr directedatthei than tbe older record by any So seven years after they initially on the music scene, these original Nes York "punk rockers'" creative music. And though none ofthese albums represent new peaks for (in Ramones case, how can a straight lint have a peak?), they are all very good even more importantly, none are ( close to being stylistic compromise! overtly commerical sell-outs.' And thiii more than some of their mc London brethren can claim. PWYRiTS OH PARADE 5 Tower Theatre fc 485-9050 Students $3.00 Separate Admissions! *V*^*JT**AT***AT*jrM*TJeT*TATme*TAW*K SENIORS \ Read The Daily Collegian \ BULLDOGS GO FOR IT! Wear your own custom engraved dog tag 14K gold overlay with a 24" herringbone chain Quantities limited. YOU INTH YEARBOOK EARNED IT! bULLDOCt $15.00 each. Add $2.00 Tor tax and handling. Enclose check or money order) D& V Graphics P.O. Box 708 Clovis, Ca 936/3 CALL NOW SIGN UP TODAY SITTINGS START NOV. 5 NO SITTING CHARGE Applications now/ available for Spring Semester Editorship for -Dailq Collegian -la Voz de Aztlan -Uhuru Ha Umojo -ftqe Sharzhoom -Sage , Requirements include: 'Completed application 'Three letters of recommendation 'Statement of proposed policq Applications available in CU 316, or call 294-2656. Deadline is November 21.1984 November 9,1984 The Daily CoflegU^-5 A rtistpaints women's struggle for freedom In a chicken coop on Bar¬ stow Ave., CSUF art stu¬ dent Jennifer Colby works on a banner that will be In her exhibit "Women: Spirit, Blood and Strunk" which will be presented at Gallery 25 from Dee. 7 to Dec. 3D. 77ie woman was walking along the road by herself when the policemen drove by. Stopping their jeep, the officers got oul and told the woman she was charged with being a prostitute. They would have to take her to the local station, they said It did not matter that the woman didn't solicit herself for a living. She would have to go downtown anyway. When they got her to the station, the men raped, the woman repeatedly. Nine months later at one of Argentina s Aband¬ oned Pregnant Woman's Centers, she gave birth lo a child. The I wo of them would be separated forever — the child being a relentless symbol of a tortured past the woman would never forget. It has been four years since CSUF art student Jennifer Colby met the woman. . Colbj was doing missionary work at the Abandoned Pregnant Women's Center in 1980 when Argentina was in the throes of military rule. •She remembers the woman as "being upset, not knowing who the father was," but also as one of many Argentinian women with "police babies." For her graduate project, Colby hopes to pay tribute to this woman and the many like her who have suffered at the hands of "Indifferent and often hostile societies. On Dec. 7-30 at Gallery 25 on Fulton Ave., Colby will present a one-woman show, "Women: Spirit, Blood and Struggle." The exhibit will feature nine banners representative of nine different Hispanic women from Central and South America and the United States. "The show is about women 1 have met in my work," Colby said. The banners are painted in acrylic on muslin fabric and feature collages — "pieces of these wo¬ men's lives, their struggle for freedom against odds of torture and imprison- Colby has a special fondness for His¬ panic women because of her overseas experiences with them, she .-aid. Aside from being a missionary intern in Argen¬ tina for 18 months, Colby made two trips to Nicaragua in 1984. "1 think 1 learned a lot about women, U.S. intervention overseas, racism, and how those issues are interrelated," she said of her travels. She added that! there is a tendency for women to b that, their geographic differences that they do not share the same stm woman's issue,' but women throughout the Americas struggle for the same things," she said. "When I was in Chile, I looked at the mountains and thought how similar they were to the ones in California. When it comes to women, 1 want them to see that connection. 1 hope to get those who think of themselves as feminists to think of women of color." Colby is aware of the strong political t hemes behi nd her banners and said it was a challenge to make a "universal artistic statement rather than propaganda." "With Modern Art, we're moving away now from the purely abstract to some¬ thing more personal," she said. "Being a graduate student and working with Modern Art issues, I wanted to be able to do something where it comes off as art, as being personal." The result was the .banners. All of Colby's banners are dominated by a single color the artist says is "significant." A window or "passageway" is at the center of each work. The banner symbolizing the -raped woman of Argentina is cast in deep blue, a hue renowned for its pressing, sad quality. At the center is a broken mirror. "I want women to look at their own image broken," Colby said ofthe banner's purpose. "As women you are supposed to be protected by police, but if you are in a society that's militaristic... It's saying, 'This could happen to you.' ** Most of the banners follow the same theme of conflict. The work symbolizing El Salvador is Army green in color and the window is intertwined wire, depicting a border. Another banner is cast in black and the center is dominated by black lace. "I met a woman on a Honduras- Nicaragua border town," Colby said of the story behind the piece. "She had recently lost her husband and said that the town was named after him." Of the nine banners, only the one representing Nicaragua is a "hopeful"one with a clear window, Colby said. ] "I met this woman whose whole life was changed by the Revolution," she said. "There is a saying that without women, there is no revolution. In Nicaragua, be¬ cause womep participated with the men in the Revolution, there is health-care, day¬ care and literacy now." Colby said she spent half of this semes¬ ter "really thinking [her projects] out." She has been spending six to eight hours every Monday, Wednesday and Friday working on the banners in a weather- beaten chicken coop on Barstow Ave. |