CHRISTGAU CONSUMER GUIDE
ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA: "A New World Record" (United Artists)::Sure this is Moody Blues with brains, hooks and laffs galore, but it's also love without balls. Recommended to those who really got off on music appreciation in high school.
CHRISTGAU CONSUMER GUIDE
ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA: "A New World Record" (United Artists)::Sure this is Moody Blues with brains, hooks and laffs galore, but it's also love without balls. Recommended to those who really got off on music appreciation in high school. B
ANDYFAIRWEATHERLOW: "Be Bop *n' Holla" (A&M)::Andy's up to his old tricks. With the help of some lilting Caribbean-style percussion, as infectious as Victoria II, he abandons the attack that's always put a hard edge on his cheerful rock and roll. The result is a tuneful, sexy album, his best yet, and oh so frivolous; in fact, "Lighten Up" sounds like a theme song. Only frivolity turns desperate when you listen hard, even to the theme song: "Cos I feel like I'm a stranger/Feel like I'm a slave/I'm a prisoner to my lonely grave." Such a joker, this boy—he makes it sound like Rocky Raccoon had it coming to him. A-