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Amazon offers Chagall Guevara (Audio CD),22 January, 1991 List price $13.98 This is the friction of joy and misery / 4 This group is doomed to the dust of history thanks to: an awful name (The group implies they intended it to mean "revolutionary art" {from painter Marc Chagall and revolutionary Che Guevara}, lack of touring, the band's reluctance to discuss their lyrics in interviews, and the band's marriage of withering sarcasm to reluctant optimism. This review then serves as a memorial to the "revolutionary art" that was Chagall Guevara, consisting of lead vocalist Steve Taylor, drummer Mike Mead, guitarist L. Arthur "Lynn" Nichols, guitarist Dave Perkins, and bassist Wade Jaynes. Combine jangly guitars, Elvis Costelloesque sarcasm, and the skewed lyrics of Barenaked Ladies or They Might be Giants in a blender and you've got a starting point for the sound of Chagall Guevara. HIGHLIGHTS: The "friction of joy and misery" comes from the planet finding itself in the death throes of "Murder in the Big House". An environmentalist treatise? A remark on the collapse of societal mores? A take on the end of the self-satisfied consumerism rampant in the U.S. in the 80s? Take your pick..."Escher's World", a tribute to the illustrator of the mind-boggling optical illusions, is its own defiance of natural order. Powerbrokers take their licks in "Play God" as what sounds like drunken New Orleans brass join in the funeral march. The epic "Monkey Grinder" uses the imagery of a "fat man" street-corner entertainer as overseer, tightening the collar of the monkey "working stiffs" until the day "some say it just unhooks its jaws/Then it swallows most anything it wants/even a full grown fat man". "Candy Guru" puts religious hucksters in its crosshairs. ("It was a willing seduction/the apple was bitten/primed and smitten/by a sense of belonging somewhere/I didn't deserve") Everclear's Art Alexakis will probably add it to the setlist if he ever hears divorce angst anthem "The Rub of Love" ("Every other week on visiting day/I get tolerated by his new wife/I swear, if he ever really held me/they'd have to pry me off with the jaws of life"). A plea to weather the storms of marriage follows with "If It All Comes True" ("And if it all comes real/confirming this fear that I feel/oh, my love, come stand by me") LOWS: "The Wrong George" is a novelty that's funny once but forgettable thereafter. It apparently was a wrong number call made to the band's guitarist by accident by a slightly kooky old lady who wanted a different Dave Perkins. Taylor sounds a bit shrill on "Take me Back to Love Canal" making it one of the weaker tracks here. BOTTOM LINE: The writing here is first-rate. Many of the songs succeed on several levels..they're about what YOU think they're about. Devoid of any then-trendy early 90s grunge sounds, it's held up surprisingly well. The sound is unique enough that it's hard to say "If you like Band X, you'll like Chagall Guevara." But I would imagine fans of intelligent, snarky alternative rock will find quite a few joys on this criminally overlooked CD. Song "I Need Somebody" I can't be myself, when I'm alone I think stupid things, when left on my own I need somebody to be around Someone to play up to, to fool about I need somebody, to pick me up I need somebody Oh anybody I need somebody You know that it's you I think out loud, when there's no-one around I can't understand, why I ever get down I need somebody to take me home To the world I once knew, was formed on it's own I need somebody to see a smile Knowing things will get better after a while I need somebody Oh anybody I need somebody You know that it's you Oh yeah it's you

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