(Touch and Go, 1987)It’s covers aplenty (two) on each and every side (two) of this single. Squealing shards o’ guitar over that piledriving rhythmic chunka-chunka turns Cheap Trick’s “He’s a Whore” into something a whole lot uglier than it usedta be AND GOOD GRAVY STEVE ALBINI DRESSED AS ROBIN ZANDER IS A DEAD RINGER FOR DAVID LEE ROTH. Yikes! Wow! WEIRD! All right, I’ve calmed down. EXCEPT WAIT THAT GUY ON THE LEFT LOOKS EXACTLY LIKE MY HIGH SCHOOL CHEMISTRY LABMATE WHO LATER GOT THROWN IN THE CLINK FOR TRYING TO TAKE AN UNDERAGED BOY OVER STATE LINES!! SHEESH! OK. OK. OK. I think I’m done now. I am. So: “The Model” gets the distorto-fuzz treatment on the B, and the looser, noisier approach brings out the lyrics’ near-contempt for the vapid subject – something that is rather lost in Kraftwerk’s icy original. This is a gimmicky disc in both content and wrapper, sure, but an entertaining enough detour into tributetown to earn a salute from these quarters.
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