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Friday evening itinerary in the big city - any big city that has an active nightlife and a college. And the soundtrack to the motion picture Scream could easily be a representation of the diary of one of those youths...
7:00 PM. Go out with friends to see the movie "Scream", watch Drew Barrymore get star billing and appear for a minimal time in the film, and combine comedy and thrill in one flick.
9:30 PM. On the way back from the movie, hear Bono ("With Or Without You" era) sound-alike Gus with a remarkably slowed down cover of Blue Oyster Cult's "Don't Fear The Reaper".
10:00 PM. Hit the local college fraternity party. They're not quite ready to break into R.E.M. yet, so as the teaser, The Connells rock on their new song, "Bitter Pill". One of America's lost bands - and having accomplished what For Squirrels could only dream of - hits their target audience once again,
12:00 AM. Fraternity party is starting to turn into a mosh pit. Melding Nine Inch Nails with a dance beat, listen to industrialists Sister Machine Gun with their previously-released "Better Than Me". Decide that it's a good time to hit the clubs.
1:00 AM. Soho record a hit song without stealing riffs from Johnny Marr - this time, they just take the whole song. Icicle Works' underground 80's hit (and their only American breakthrough), "Whisper To A Scream (Birds Fly)" gets a somewhat predictable cover, but on such a good song, the expected works well.
3:00 AM. She's not just for Twin Peaks anymore. Julee Cruise teams up with Dimitri of Deee-Lite (as The Flow) for the Interdimensional Mix of "Artificial World". A jam packed dance floor grooves to Cruise's luscious melody rising just above Dimitri's delicious beats. If BT and Tori Amos hooked you, this will also wet the musical palate.
7:00 AM. Moby's "First Hand Hive" brings the raving crowd back to earth. 'Tis a good thing that the beats are slow, almost ambient - it would be hard to maintain a fast pace this late into the evening/morning.
11:00 AM. Brunch is over. So's the evening. Nick Cave's "Red Right Hand" somehow is a soothing, relaxing end to an evening's worth of excitement. The only question that remains: with all the aforementioned songs on the Scream soundtrack, and a cabaret meets rock cover of Alice Cooper's "School's Out" by The Last Hard Men (a group of Skid Row's Sebastian Bach, Kelly Deal of the Breeders and ex-Smashing Pumpkin Jimmy Chamberlain), why are there any copies left in the record store?
