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Moe Tucker: Moejadkatebarry [50 Skadillion Watts EP, 1987]
EPs are still supposed to showcase emerging bands, but many of the best are true ends in themselves if not totally sui generis, like this impossible answer record, which proves who was the body and maybe soul although not brains of the Velvet Underground. With forever-young Jad Fair playing front man, they run through three joyous VU obscurities, a Jimmy Reed blues, and a throwaway instrumental just the way the original guys might have if jaded hadn't been their thing. What does it answer? Not VU, I guess--VU's too alive. But definitely Another View--any VU that sounds like a last gasp. B+