Consumer Guide Album

Clint Eastwood & General Saint: Two Bad D.J. [Greensleeves, 1982]
I've always had reservations about the avant-garde rep of Jamaican engineering--a lot of those whooshes, zooms, and sprongs strike me as the aural equivalent of a light show. So I get off when these two clowns play it as vaudeville. Trading chants over a fine array of twisted dials and session-man offbeats, they make sex & apocalypse & rockers' roles seem like such a cosmic joke that their rhythmic life can sneak up on you. Rub a dub and what do you get? You get the answer to one of life's stubbornest mysteries--how to come and laugh at the same time. A−