Consumer Guide Album

The Three Johns: Brainbox (He's a Brainbox) [Abstract EP, 1985]
With its DOR beat and football-disco chorale, the title track of their sixth EP since 1983 is a deceptively catchy antiyuppie rallying cry, and all three tunes on the B--especially "Crazytown," the theme song of a hundred more forgettable bands--are worth hearing twice. This is more than can be said of the B fodder on EP number five, Death of the European, soon to be rendered altogether extraneous by the appearance of its title track on their second album. Anarchism in action? Something like that. B+