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GO! MUSIC key to ratings Cal1 NewsLine to hear excerpts from record- Excellent Good ings reviewed this week. Telephone access num- Fair Poor bers are with reviews below RECORDINGS ON REVIEW Here are this week's top hits as they appear in Billboard. TOP SINGLES 1. Knockin' Da Boots, H-Town (Luke) 2. Weak, SWV (RCA) 3.

That's the Way Love Goes, Ja net Jackson (Virgin) 4. Whoomp! There it Is, Tag Team (LtfeBellmark) 5. Ore Day, Dr. Ore (Death Rowlnterscope COUMTRY SINGLES 1. Blame on Your Heart, Patty Loveless (Epic) 2.

That Summer, Garth Brooks (Liberty) 3. No Future in the Past, Virtce Gill (MCA) 4. Money in the Bank, John Anderson (SNA) 5. Oh Me, Oh My, Sweet Baby, Diamond Rio (Ansta) JAMES INGRAM ALWAYS YOU Warner Bros. To hear an excerpt from this release, call 463-4636 and enter 2553 KBSMBLES 1.

Knockin' Da Boots, H-Town (Luke) 2. That's the Way Loves Gees, Janet Jackson (Virgin) 3. Weak, swv (RCA) 4. Whoomp! Thai it to, Tag Team (LifeBeHmark) 5. Lately, Jodeci (Uptown) PAUL WESTERBERG 14 SONGS Sire Reprise To hear an excerpt from this recording, call 463-4636 and enter 2551 Paul Westerberg gave the alternative generation its voice in the '80s as the leader of the Replacements, a band hellbent on both the salvation of rock 'n' roll and its self-destruction.

A major influence on acts such as Soul Asylum, the 'Mats ensured immortality with their inevitable breakup. Westerberg lives up to his legend with 14 Songs, the raspy-voiced singer-songwriter's first full-length solo release. Not surprisingly, the album strikes a balance between the dichotomous sides of Wester-berg's nature, offering a mix of introspective ballads and incendiary rockers. The slashing chords and shouted choruses of the latter are emphasized far more than on the 'Mats last few releases, with the raucous Silver Naked Ladies and the punkish Down Love sounding like hro wbacks to Let It Be. In contrast, the close feel of songs such as Runaway Wind is much more intimate, adding resonance to the anguish in his voice.

Black Eyed Susan is a personal demo, recorded in his kitchen. Westerberg has an easy way with a hook, as well as a turn of phrase, and between the extremes lies a wealth of wonderfully punchy tunes and inspired lines, delivered with the passion of youth and the voice of experience. DAVE LARSEN. Pop Music Cntic hey Zeus! Elektra To hear an excerpt from this recording call 463-4636 and enter 2552 Rising from the trash can of the late '70s Los Angeles scene, never bought into the garbage that seemed to go along with being a punk band from smog city. It wasn't as fatalistic as the Germs or as silly as the Dickies or as hard-core as Black Flag.

With the rockabilly guitar of Billy Zoom, the steady pounding of drummer D.J. Bonebrake and the beautiful harmonies of bassist John Doe and then-wife Exene Cervenka, didn't go to extremes to get its point across. just played music. With hey its first studio release since 1987, brings back guitar hero Zoom's replacement, Tony Oilkyson (ex-Lone Justice), who again shows that Zoom is dearly missed. But the album is replete with the signature Doe-Cervenka harmonies (Someone's Watching, New Life and Baby You Lied and the rockers (Lettuce and Vodka and Clean Like Tomorrow The first single, Country at War, brings the fight from last outing's See How We Are to this part of the New World: "I try to love this country But it's turned its back On its sick and hungry Seems like old times, but this time hey Zeus! will be anything but unheard music.

KEVIN AMORIM, Dayton Daily News U2 ZOOROPA Island To hear an excerpt from this recording, call 463-4636 and enter 2550 U2 is at a comfortable point in its career where the band could simply bang out the same album over and over and please a sizable percentage of the world's population. Instead, the Irish rockers continue to challenge themselves and their listeners with Zooropa. You must divorce yourself from any previous conception of U2 to fully appreciate the group's latest release, which was originally planned as an EP but ballooned into an album once the band sequestered itself in the studio. Produced by Flood, Brian Eno and The Edge, Zooropa sounds unlike anything U2 has done before, although its futuristic feel was hinted at on AchtungBaby! with The Fly and Zoo Station. Instruments are warped and treated with techno blips and industrial clanks to sound like anything but guitar, bass and drums, and Bono reins in his stadium-filling bellow to explore his tenor and falsetto range.

The strongest vocal on the album, however, comes courtesy of Johnny Cash, who provides a craggy lead on The Wanderer, a throbbing U2 original. Despite its unconventional approach, Zooropa sounds more and more like U2 with each successive listen just not in any way you've come to expect. DAVE LARSEN. Pop Music Cntic TOP LPS James Ingram teamed with Thorn Bell and Barry Medina to produce Always You, and Maurice White, the mind behind Earth, Wind and Fire, lent a hand. But all that seems to amount to is a little embellishment on this album.

Indeed, helping Ingram produce a group of songs is like helping Carl Lewis run the 100 -meter dash. Ingram is a welcome throwback to the days when crooners just stepped up to the microphone and let their voices go. The idea was just to sing sweetly and let the audience appreciate a fine voice. That's what Always You is all about. On the first cut, Ingram goes into the hit song Someone Like You and gives more than four minutes of just plain, good romantic singing.

Well, maybe it's not that plain. Ingram has enough urgency in his voice to give listeners the feeling he is singing to one special person. He put that quality into each song on the album. That is what makes the fourth cut, Treat Her Right, the best. In it he describes a woman who is strong, intelligent and caring, and he makes the point that you must treat her right to keep her happy.

Ingram treats his listeners right. There is no way to go wrong with Always You. GREG SIMMS, Dayton Daily News 1. Janet, Janet Jackson (Virgin) 2. Unplugged and Seated, Rod Stewart (Warner Bros.) (Ansta) 3.

The Chronic, Dr. Dre (Death Row-lnterscope) 4. The Bodyguard Soundtrack (Arista) 5. Core, Stone Temple Pilots (Atlantic) Cat! the Top 5 Audio Chart (463-4636. category 2301) for samples of the top pop singes.

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