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Through May 1. The Label Show: Contemporary Art and the Museum, an exhibition of 20 works from the permanent collection...
High points on this disc include the"Cannonball" Adderly's mournful ballad "Mercy,Mercy, Mercy," and the four tracks by Booker T.and MG's (the only band that reallydeserves the label as `the hardest working band inshow biz'): "Green Onions" (which was named whenbass player Lewis Steinberg was asked to think ofthe funkiest thing he could), the molasses-thick"Hip Hug-Her," the ghetto-blues soundtrack to the1969 movie Uptight, "Time is Tight" and"Hang `Em High," an organ-driven remaking of thetheme song for the Clint Eastwood spaghettiwestern of the same name...
...Cachan feels (rightly so) that it is inappropriate to lump all "Latinos" together under that label, then he shouldn't use similar terms for other groups. Clare A. Sammells...
...Quality Merchandise label is stamped all over Germinal. Gerard Depardieu, who heads the film's huge cast, is the one French actor with worldwide heft and clout. Director Claude Berri is among France's toniest auteurs and producers. Now he and Gerard Brach have adapted Emile Zola's sprawling indictment of a novel. The result is dispiriting: a minor work on a huge canvas...
...doesn't make me respect them any less. I mean, look what they called it--they're not trying to fool anyone. In the liner notes, Mike D explains, "now that we've gotten our shit together to some extent as far as having a label, it seemed like a good time to try and make this stuff available together in one joint for a reasonable sum," The words "make this stuff available" get it just right: these songs are now available, if you rally want them. They make no pretense of bringing you something special, or busting out with...