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Rip It Up, Issue 58, 1 May 1982, Page 20

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Human League Don't You Want Me (Virgin 12") This is the song that has broken Human League in America. The most'commercial track from Dare becomes its fourth single. Coupled with 'Seconds' and an extended dub version of 'Don't You. Want Me', this is a record everyone in the world should own. The Fun Boy Three with Bananarama It Ain't What You Do (Chrysalis) , The Fun Boys, with three girls, dust off a real old song. After 'Lunatics' this is a dull ditty about nothing. The flip, 'Funarama Theme', is an. instrumental dub workout, a bit inane. Playthings Birds Eye View Great guitar sound, luscious vocals. This should have been a 12-inch extended version. At two minutes 40, it hardly wets the appetite. Other side has two songs, 'Dumb' and 'Pure Frost'. 25 Cents Don't Deceive Me (Flying Nun) 25 Cents are an all-girl, Christ-' church five-piece. This is a standard thrash-along. with a reasonably vague sort of tune. Flip is 'The Witch' a pop song resurrected from the sixties. Ritchie Venus and the Blue Beatles Bleeding Heart (Flying Nun) Nothing new here. More from Christchurch, this time without much to offer. Boring rock n' roll that , sounds as old as Ritchie Venus is rumoured to be. 'Josephine' on the flip side is a poor retread of the Taxman'/'Start' riff. oMiTPi^qgnßpMgnE Maid of Orleans (Dindisc 12") ' Part two of the 'Joan of Arc': story from Architecture and Morality. Imitation bagpipes over a steady beat and lush melodies. B-side has 'Navigation' and 'Experiments In Vertical Take-Off'. NewlQrdgraßßMMHßM Procession/Everything's Gone Green (Factorv):J<MqMPMpK It's a hard task to shake free the memory of lan Curtis, but New Order are not letting that stand in their way. These two songs leap at you with a new-found vigour, and are almost, dare I say it, danceable. Simon Raby Tag Along (Ferret) Simon Raby is from Auckland and this was recorded at Harlequin. Apart from that, I know nothing about, it. Very -catchy synth-pop song with a piano piece in the middle. It.could be a surprise hit, if: there was a radio station to play it. B-side is 'The Observers', also very clever. Holly. & Joey I Got You Babe (Virgin) ‘ Holly Vincent and her Italians run through the old Sonny and Cher standard with help from Joey Ramone and ABC producer Steve

Brown. True to the original except for the heavy metal guitar. Nostalgia we don't need. Pin Group Go To Town (Flying Nun 12"). A five song EP from Christchurch's Pin Group. Songs are 'Power', 'Long Night', 'When I Tell You', 'A Thousand Sins' and the single Ambivalence'. Unfortunately, the Joy Division-Velvet Underground influences overwhelm the vocals and guitar respectively, though 'Long Night' is a haunting, tasty lament. The Builders EP (Flying Nun) Bill Direen and his tradesmen with a seven-inch that plays at 33rpm. Four songs, 'Girl At Night', 'I Thought I Knew You', 'Starry Day' and 'Rug'. First side has that Velvets sound again, this time circa third album. Second side is a little more adventurous, particularly 'Russian Rug' with its intoxicating keyboards. Swingers Starstruck (Mushroom) The title track from the movie and by all accounts the best thing about it. Recorded prior to Andrew joining, this features Phil on vocals, coming on like a latterday Marc Bolan. Lots of brass and very heavyweight. B-side is 'Starstruck Theme', an instrumental and very un-Swingers. Blond Comedy Generation Day (Mandrill 12") Four songs from the ex-New Entrants.' ■' London-born Tony Johns has never managed to get around' his poor-man's Weller vocal problem. Couple that with songs that go on about 'King And Country' and you end up with a recording top close to Setting Sons. ' IHHH The Church Unguarded Moment (Stunn) The Church are currently the hottest thing in Sydney, and have achieved success in Canada. 'Unguarded Moment’ is a catchy, cliched, riff-filled . rock tune. What's all the fuss about? Mark Phillips> \

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conversation slips to their version of the Righteous Brothers milestone, 'You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling'. The Hall and Oates cover struck me as unnecessary and exploitive, so what was the reason for choosing it?

"We had finished the album, Voices, but we needed one more song and I happened to hear 'Lovin' Feeling' on a jukebox and we went into the studio the next day and cut it in about two hours. ■ I had a feeling, knowing American radio, that they would gravitate towards it and I proved right and , it paved the way for 'Kiss On My List'." And so to Private Eyes, a megabuster, already the source of two neat top ten monsters and also an album .containing a couple of vaguely political songs in 'Mano A Mano' and 'Some Men: "A lot of our approach is very political in a personal politics way which for me is the basis of all politics. It has to do with self-real-isation and taking each situation and looking at it as being unique. It's a problem in America where people are bombarded with easy answers that they don't see each situation as it is. They tend to generalise and think in categories and that's the subject of just about every song we've written. They may sound like love songs but they're really about social politics, about how to keep your individualism in a romantic situation." And finally Daryl since you live in New York you must have contact with the Ze movement? "Yeah, . I'm very good friends with Augie Darnell. and we're thinking of doing a record together. I'm very much involved with these people and I love it. In urban areas racial integration is a day-to-day reality and American' music should reflect that and that's what we do and that's what a lot of people like Darnell and Prince are doing now as well, It's universally oriented music." George Kay