Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 23, 1996, Winnipeg, Manitoba Saturday free March 1996 b7 Dion uses her voice to stunning effect c Eline into you judging by the Celine Lions Bare Navel would seem to indicate Shes ready to take on Shania Twain As the nations offi Cial singing sex Quebec superstar chanteuse Dion uses her voice to stunning effect on falling into she is capable of projecting intense feeling into her and equally capable of competing with Mariah Carey in the vocal gymnastics Dion writes none of the songs instead drawing from a Large Pool of writ ers that includes Dan Hill and Aldo As she covers the Standard All by which enjoys Lush vocals but suf fers from a synthetic Dion kicks off the album with a Strong performance on the pop operatic its All coming Back to the signature of Jim Steinman the writer of meatloaf biggest hits is clearly evident in the its a diverse and she moves from tender love songs on seduces me to Catchy dance pop on make you Happy and Rock n Roll on the infectious declaration of the 72minute album is Lions first English language recording since 1993s color of my her Deus cd won a Juno earlier this month for bestselling francophone xxx John Lyons bar naked on a pirate ship if you listen to modern Rock by now youve no doubt heard the ladies new shoe and As uninteresting As it May sound at the chorus has probably stuck in your brain As if sound opinion pop record reviews Are compiled by free press music writer John highest rating is live stapled that the Way it is with the ladies third born on a pirate theres nothing Here As immediately Lov Able As if i had or be my Yoko but the songs Are intelligent and Grabby enough to grow on and its they even drag out Murray Mclaughlan for Straw hat and old dirty the title of which harkens to Mclaughlan own Farmers although the songs themselves take markedly differing views of Agri cultural pirate ship includes 14 songs Over 52 plus carom its the first album without keyboardist Andy Reeggan the band now Bills itself As a pirate ship shows a marked improve ment Over the ladies maybe you should on that album they seemed lost in a netherworld Between the zaniness of their Early material and the More mature subjects and songwriting they obviously aspired born on a pirate ship sees them achieving their John Lyons the afghan love Black love is certainly a dark Cincinatis favorite alternative sons whip up a sordid but dramatic 52 min utes of crunching snarling rhythms and vengeful bar naked a Tad Dion left uses vocal gymnastics bar naked ladies will grow on Black perhaps aspiring to theme album reads like a movie script it opens with crime scene part one and evolves through 11 angry stages until whigs Leader Greg Dulli is breaking no new alter aground by displaying angst and but he does it Hes no but an angry Young Man of action ill get the you get the and he sings in going to John Lyons the cuts the worlds favorite Irish minstrels have released a package of instrumentals that they have previously recorded for As with Many loosely tied its not an outstanding compared with other pieces in the chieftains fabulous the fact it is All instrumental May make it less accessible for some film cuts is essentially Nice but Ster it lacks the warmth and evocative Ness of a fully realized album by the six member who put on a memo Rable performance at the Walker theatre last not to say there Arent some Fine moments among the culled from eight on this 49 minute John Lyons the score coolie sings that there aint no party like a West coast party cause a West coast party dont sure West coast rap May Rule the dance but East coast hiphop still tends to have More roots and that certainly True with new Yorks the three piece fugues use old school grooves to rap about the hard life in new along the they update an r and b classic killing me softly and a reggae Touchstone no no cry to make for a roots Brand of rap that a Strong alternative to so much of the More predictable Orange county Register various alive the Art of self defense issuing a two cd set for Home alive might show a real dedication to a cause by a group of but if you truly want to raise Money for a issuing an expensive album with Only two sure fire Selling songs Pearl jams version of the High numbers leaving Here to a lesser nirvana live take of radio Friendly unit shifter is quite the with the rest of the album made up of names such As Jesse Michael Nichols and Bobby Home alive is going to be a Tough and that too because much of the Charity album proceeds go to self defence programs in memory of slain gits Singer Mia Zapata features Noname material that better than that from the buy it for the Pearl Jam and sound Gar Den they listen to it for the it Orange county Register overtures Given High Sheen Gershwin overtures preludes rhapsody 2 Boston pops orches Arthur Fiedler London phase 4 443 9002 this is an enjoyable program of symphonic ally arranged newly Reis sued from a 1979 overtures to 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