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PAGE 22 â€" WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY JANUARY 27, 1988 SALT CRYSTALS ‘‘Specializing in the Best of Waterloo County Fare." CATERING SERVICES CRYSTAL saALT ©Q99 ERB ST. W. ST. AGATH MANUFACTURERS OF WATER 7633100 658â€"1 350 SALES â€" SERVICE â€" RENTALS But like Bush and Siberry, I find O‘Connor‘s idea of art artificial. The arrangements are at times challenging and certainly enigmatic, but ultimately selfâ€"consciously modern and pasâ€" sionless. Bush built a career out of piecing together snippets of her grating vocal gymnasâ€" tics and adding them to assorted artâ€"rock and nouveauâ€"folk accompaniment. O‘Connor has followed suit, employing touches of Celtic strains, and the results are equally empty. When O‘Connor becomes less indulgent of her vocal melodramatics, she may have someâ€" thing to offer. Until then, I guess, she‘ll just have to be content with becoming a star. ing physical appearance â€" her shaved head will no doubt become a marketable signature â€" and some intriguing musical settings that bring to mind a cross between Kate Bush, Jane Siberry and Belinda Carlisle. The rock press is always searching for heroes and heroines. When it can‘t find one, it creates one. Say hello. to Sinead O‘Connor. O‘Connor is a 20â€"yearâ€"old Irish singer whose perplexing persona has tickled the fancy of critics and impressionable listeners easily fooled by avantâ€"garde posturing. What‘s more, O‘Connor has U2‘s Bono in her camp. I suspect, though, that The Lion And The Cobra is more of a fashion statement than the important work of art it is being called. O‘Connor has carefully manufactured a strikâ€" Wendy Waldman Attic/A&M The Lion And The Cobra Sinead O‘Connor Chrysalis/MCA Letters Home After 15 years of recording seven albums for three different labels, the numbers are more significant than Wendy Waldman‘s place in the music business. Which is a shame because even '“m‘mm‘u“‘q‘ 89 BRIDGEPORT RD. E WATERLOO 746â€"0024 '"""V""""""“ MIN. 3 BAG PURCHASE } "OVERDRIVE" @nnedp. FREE DELIVERY 6° ial Fabulous Wicker for Every Room! Hcme of the Handyman Sale Ends February 13th Kenny Rogers have récorded her songs. Letters Home should turn a few heads. It‘s a fine little gom, a throwback to the contemporâ€" ary rock nstadt popularized in the midâ€" seventies. Like Ronstadt, Waldman‘s voice can be an imposing instrument. But whereas the former often rendered the best of songs lifeless, Waldman‘s strong emotional attachment does justice to what is very personal material, perhaps her finest since her auspicious 1973 debut. though Waldman is a stranger to most record buyers, her material certainly isn‘t. Singers as diverse as Linda Ronstadt, Johnny Mathis and Exhibition Gary Numan ~ Vertigo/Polygram Gary Numan was at the forefront of the late ‘70s and early ‘80s synthesizer movement â€" he borrowed heavily from the early work of Brian Eno and contemporaries Ultravox â€" and Exhibition is a worthwhile compilation of material from that period. Numan meshed his deadpan vocal delivery and rhythmical synthesizer shadings with a conventional bass/drums backing and conâ€" verted the formula into a string of hits. Included on this double album are the internaâ€" tional hit "Cars," "Are Friends Electric," and a couple of recent singles, notably the atypical "Change Your Mind," which is one of his best. 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