Archives: June1994

• Luka Bloom Turf (Reprise) Phoenix New Times CD Review June 22, 1994

  Luka Bloom Turf (Reprise) Phoenix New Times CD Review June 22, 1994

• Last Week Live: The Eagles, The Pretenders and the Grays

  Live shows by the Eagles, The Pretenders and the Grays reviewed.

• Material Issue: Reissued Material?

  Material Issue’s Jim Ellison carves out great pop from a Seventies mold, whether he’ll admit it or not.

• Angelfish – Phoenix New Times June 1, 1994

  Angelfish Angelfish (Radioactive) Phoenix New Times CD review June 1, 1994 Picture Patti Smith dropping her Rimbaud references to sing Til Tuesday’s material and you get this impeccably smart pop album that never pretends to be anything but. Angelfish has enough sense to throw in some twist whenever it starts sounding a little too corporate. This maiden effort was produced by Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth, although Mike Chapman probably could’ve done the same job, and Angelfish would’ve only had [...]

• Huey Lewis and the News – Four Chords & Several Years Ago Phoenix New Times CD review, June 1, 1994

  “This can hardly qualify as a solid career move unless the group’s gearing itself up to be a bar band again.”

• Van Morrison, A Night in San Francisco, Phoenix New Times CD review June 1, 1994

  Do we really need another version of “Moondance,” especially one that sounds more like Merv Griffin swinging out with Mort Lindsay and the Orchestra?

• Swell – 41, CD review, June 1, 1994

  Swell – 41, Phoenix New Times CD review, June 1, 1994

• Paul Weller – Wild Wood and Traffic – Far From Home, Phoenix New Times CD review, June 1, 1994

  Winwood, not Wild Wood, would have been a more apt title for this second Paul Weller solo outing. From the whirling circles on the cover art to the flutes, the jazz-rock beats, the incessant wah-wah pedals and the white-soul-man vocals, it’s obvious that Weller is under a posthypnotic suggestion that he is the driving force behind Traffic.

• Lush – Split, Phoenix New Times CD review, June 1, 1994

  Lush – Split, Phoenix New Times CD review, June 1, 1994