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- GRAPEVINE, Page 11JAMMING AGAINST THE TIDE
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- By DAVID ELLIS/Reported by Daniel S. Levy
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- The ad in Billboard certainly was mysterious: the simple,
- unexplained declaration "Keep Music Evil" on last week's front
- page raised more than a few eyebrows. The slogan represents the
- philosophy of the FATIMA MANSIONS, an Irish band that has just
- released its U.S. debut disk Viva Dead Ponies. According to lead
- singer Cathal Coughlan, the group hopes to capture rock's old
- outlaw image by overthrowing the sugarcoated commercialism
- prevalent on the pop charts today. To promote that "mission,"
- the album dissects a British society rife with "squalid poverty
- where the poor prey on the even poorer," says Coughlan. Included
- on the album are the songs Ceausescu Flashback; Look What I
- Stole for Us, Darling; and More Smack, Vicar.
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