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Rip It Up, Issue 88, 1 November 1984, Page 6

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Chaka Khan I Feel For \bu 12" (WEA) For my money Chaka Khan has already produced one of the year’s highlights with ’Ain't Nobody! This one stretches the imagination a bit more, spicing up the 'new soul’ feel with snatches of street happenin’ electro-rappin: If you also consider that the tune was penned by none other than millionaire prat Prince. I’d say she can't really go wrong. Can we have the video now please? Animal Nightlife Mr Solitaire (Island) Animal Nightlife have been lounge lizarding around the London club scene for several years now. They debuted with a great but sadly neglected single titled Love Is the Great Pretender: Subsequent releases failed to recapture that initial excitement until ‘Mr Solitaire’, their first British Top Thirty hit. Smooth and inoffensive, it crosses the Atlantic at the same point as Spandau, laundering its white soul lyrics over a bed of rich rhythm. Tasty. Gil Scott Heron Re-Ron 12” (Arista) A man with more credibility than Dixie Whatley, Gil Scott Heron has always been one step ahead of the pack. This is a marked departure from his usual style. Employing a hard electro

nest of tight programming, he raps his way through ‘Death and Destruction’ by Ronald Ray-gun. It’s the neutron bomb from Lebanon. When you’re wrong, you're wrong and when you’re right, you’re right. Black Uhuru What Is Life 12” (Island) I’m no great reggae connoisseur but I’m sure this one ain’t the full quid. Black Unuru are an ital dread band who have helped win many new converts to the Rasta cause, here they sound limp and uninspired. All is not lost, however. 'Party Next Door’, one of the two tracks on the flip, saves face or off their faces or something. You gotta get up to get down! Richard ‘Dimples’ Field .Your Wife is Cheating On Us 12” (RCA) Billy Jean Part 496, this thumps along in the M.J. groove thang but manages to beat the original hands down when it comes to lyrical content. All we need now is pirate FM stations to play all these records. Dream on. Alison Moyet All Cried Out 12” (CBS) ‘Love Resurrection’ proved to be a real grower, I hope ’All Cried Out’ does the same. Another Swain and Jolley collaboration, it lacks any initial bite but somehow leaves a sweet taste lingering. Maybe it’s all those around, around, around, arounds. Mark Phillips