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10 Daily Record, Northwest N.J. Sunday, May 13, 1984 King Crimson's 'Three of a Perfect Pair': Fripp and Belew I -7 O'Clock is intolerably off-pitch on the Byrds' "John Riley," the Beach Boys' "Sloop John and an 11-min-ute version of Jimi Hendrix's "Rainy Day, Dream Away." You'll notice, too, that they aren't covering the Strawberry Alarm Clock, the Chocolate Watchband or the 13th Floor Elevators, none of whom ever wrote a song as good as Dylan's or Young's. Twenty years from now, it's unlikely anyone will be covering David Roback's songs either. SEMANTICS AUSTRALIAN CRAWL Geffen GHS 4028 The next Australian band to crack the U.S. charts ought to be Australian Crawl.

Their album Semantics, compiled from several Australian releases, rocks hard enough to compel attention, then leaves you with something to think about afterward. The band's sound blends dirty guitars and roaring saxophone into a powerful backing that gives the material an enormous punch. These guys can swing like Van Morrison a tribute to a summertime hangout) or deliver a ballad with ominous understatement with its acoustic lead guitar and subtle strings). When they slip a little reggae into the mix Limbo," "The the result sounds nothing like the cheerful insanity of Men at Work; it's positively dangerous. Singer James Reyne's sneering tone, occasionally reminiscent of Joe Jackson, suits the sarcastic edge of the lyrics, which touch on sex, race and politics in in terms ambiguous enough to fool timid radio programmers.

I'd love to hear "The Boys Light Up" or "White Limbo" on the air. And I don't doubt that a band this talented will make themselves heard. RANSOM NOTE DEAR ENEMY Capitol ST-12295 Dear Enemy comes on like an Australian equivalent of the Cars: the same tick-tock rhythm guitar, synthesizer sweetening and slightly stiff drumming. But singer Ron Martini is a standard rock belter of the Foreigner school, and over the course of Ransom Note the band comes closer to the bland standards of American FM radio than the imaginative, anything-goes traditions of their homeland. Fortunately, they come up with some decent tunes along the way, including "Computer One," which asks a machine for some Dear Abby advice, and "Bit of Your Heart," a credible ballad.

They'd be even better if some more thought had gone into the words. "The Good Life," for instance, wastes an attractive melody on a cliched lytic about a suburban husband's alienation. "Day to Day" has one arresting couplet don't care about Dylan and JohnI don't care for what's been or what's amid much banality. able with the arrangement. In fact, one might take the warring couple of the title song has his contradicting viewsShe has her cyclo-mythic moodsThey make a study in despairThree of a perfect as stand-ins for the band's two front men.

Two lengthy instrumentals on the "Right Side," "Industry" and "Larks' Tongues in Aspic, Part III," try a different approach, as Fripp backs Belew's renegade slide guitar lines with his own electronically treated atmospherics. Bassist Tony Levin and drummer Bill Bruford have more to do on this side, though in general they stick to supporting roles on this album. If this King Crimson is more of a real band than any of the earlier editions (none of which lasted for more than one album), it's because Fripp has finally met his equal in Belew and decided to stick it out rather than scrap everything and start over. They haven't quite worked it all out yet, but that's all right. At the moment the friction between them is their greatest asset.

EMERGENCY THIRD RAIL POWER TRIP THE RAIN PARADE Enigma 19 RAINY DAY VARIOUS ARTISTS LlamaEnigma E1024 Psychedelia lives anew in Los Angeles. The Rain Parade, one of several L.A. bands contributing to the revival, revel in 12-string guitar, By JIM BOHEN THREE OF A PERFECT PAIR KING CRIMSON Warner BrothersE.G. 25071-1 First, a message from Robert Fripp: "King Crimson has a new album and a new record. The album is Three of a Perfect Pair and the record is the same personnel on three consecutive albums.

"The album presents the two distinct sides of the band's personality, which has caused at least as much confusion for the group as it has the public and the industry. The Left Side is accessible, the Right Side excessive." Leave it to Fripp to come up with such a suggestive introduction to the album. Three of a Perfect Pair is indeed about irreconcilable oppo-sites, starting with the tension between Fripp and guitarist-vocalist Adrian Belew. For much of the album they seem to be struggling to come to some workable arrangement with each other. The relatively concise songs on the "Left Side" pit Fripp's clean, cerebral guitar style intricate, clockwork licks in irregular meters more abandoned playing and singing.

On his solo albums Belew tends to go overboard wijh his guitar noises and his howling voice (a bad imitation of Talking Holds' David Byrne). Here Fripp's discipline forces him to edit his ide-as-into shape which isn't to say that Belew seems entirely comfort King Crimson fuzz tone, sitar and cosmically vague lyrics. Leader David Roback's favorite records as a kid must have been the Beatles' "Rain" and Saggi-tarius's "My World Fell Down." From its title on down, Emergency Third Rail Power Trip is willfully anachronistic. Unfortunately, it's also musically uneven, marked by short bursts of imagination and long periods of aimlessness. After an appealing opening (the folk-rock march "Talking in My it takes forever to get to another song as good (the jangly "What She's Done to Your Mind," at the beginning of side two).

The slightly amateurish playing has its attractions, but it wears thin. The vocals sound pretty sleepy, and drummer Eddie Kalwa often seems to be chasing after the beat rather than setting it. Maybe what these guys need is a little more rehearsal. Roback makes his debt to the 60s explicit with Rainy Day, on which he and Rain Parade violinist Will Glenn join forces with members of several other L.A. bands to remake a batch of '60s songs.

(Both albums are available from Enigma Records, Box 2896, Torrance, Calif. 90509.) The stripped-down, semi-acoustic treatment focuses attention on the vocals, and a couple of the performers measure up to the exposure. Susanna Hoffs of the Bangles offers touching readings of the Velvet Underground's "I'll Be Your Mirror" and Bob Dylan's "I'll Keep It With Mine" (though she can't equal Sandy Denny's version of the latter with Fairport Convention). Kendra Smith of the Dream Syndicate does equally well with Neil Young's Buffalo Springfield-era "Flying on the Ground Is Wrong." Roback, on the other hand, brings nothing to his solo version of Young's "On the Way Home." And Michael Quercio of the Three Video Waves pared to let their programs die without herculean effort to revive them. There are so many variables that make a TV program a hit that have nothing whatever to do with the script, stars or direction.

They elude: the program that directly precedes the show, its airing night of the week, its sponsors and the approval of the top brass. We may not like "The Family Feud," but it is a great lead-in. Monday is considered to be a good night to launch a program because people By JOHN SOUTHINGTON The Unloved One: They don't axe TV series these days. They put them on "hiatus." This euphemism is somewhat akin to the observation that "rumors of my death are greatly exaggerated." A few shows in that shadowy realm are or have been "Jennifer Slept Here," "AKA Pablo" and "Maggie Briggs." The gist of the term "hiatus" doesn't carry the naked reality like "cancellation." It merely means that the men in the suits aren't pre Bel gMusica presents OPERA NIGHT II FRIDAY, MAY 18 8:00 P.M. DONATION $7.00 for the Discerning Gourmet and Opera Lover tsstcutant For Information Reservations (201) 227-6868 58 ROUTE 46W.

PINE BROOK. N.J. May 16 th but renewed faith and peity were not the only benefits of the religious glut: after all, these dramas still churn money for their commercial sponsors. A particular treat, however, was the more recent TV movie biography of Pope John Paul II. His early life was the most fascinating aspect of the film as he helped save Polish Jews from the Nazis and struggled early as an actor.

His attraction to the church and the priesthood came only after much soul-searching, an inner conflict of a spiritual and temporal nature that is seldom well portrayed on the screen. Albert Finney, so soon after his Titanesque performance in "The Dresser," brought a refreshing individuality to the role that might just as easily have been written and acted to cloud the real man from the icons around him. The film was superb, vital and also sly. It should take a valued place in the niche of popular religious entertainments on TV when we face the holy calendar next year. Out of court: The National Enquirer stoops, but doesn't conquer as the tabloid settled a $20 million libel case out of court brought by the veteran TV actress Shirley Jones and husband Marty Engels.

Jones sued when the Enquirer wrote that her husband drove her to drink. The actual amount of the settlement is unknown, but the supermarket publication will print a retraction. Stand back, though. There are plenty of other celebrity defendants taking the Enquirer to court. Mama Mia: The TV miniseries of "The Last Days of Pompeii" was a comedy howl not to be missed.

Lots of bucks thrown around you can almost hear them yell "more volcanic ash, Manny" and there hasn't been such an unintentional laugh riot in a long, long time. What's $19 million down the drain? stay at home after a weekend of revelry. You're in trouble, however, if your only sponsor manufactures chocolate chip cookies with so many pins inside that they are taken off the market. The approval of top brass, however, is a toss-up and you often see bi-coastal network executives as they slip into airport chapels on their way to make the big sale. A show that goes on "hiatus" seems less afflicted than a program rumored to be on the verge of cancellation.

We picture a tropical site where the creative people, wearing grass skirts and eating bread fruit, meet to perform health care on their product. Not all programs emerge from hiatus status. We are especially fond of the Marquis Chimps and "The Pruitts of Southampton" that were never salvaged. We're particularly pleased, however, that "Cagney and Lacy" has returned from the underworld for 22 more episodes, while "Maggie Briggs" is said to have made a one-way crossing of the river Styx. "Jennifer Slept Here" is back, though, and this Ann Jillian vehicle is a case where a creative team doesn't have the sense to read the tea leaves properly: they say leave town.

It is likely that most new TV shows will debut in the future and have a "hiatus" clause in the contract. Hollywood can lead a dead horse to water, but can't make Flic-ka drink. The Video Bible: The recent passage of the 1984 Easter and Passover holidays witnessed one of the most dense years of religious drama on TV. We had Cecil B. deMille's 'Ten Commandments," Franco Zef-ferilli's "Jesus of Nazareth," the movie "Quo Vadis" and the more recent TV epic "Peter and Paul." These reruns represented more than 20 hours of primetime viewing, Strike it rich with our winning bonus.

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