RECORDS

SKYBAND - (RCA) •• “Bang! Ooh! Ya Got Me!’’ Now ain’t that a stupid title for an opening song? You betcha and the rest of the ablum follows suit. The 1910 Fruit Gum Co. could do better with Gene Cornish on guitar and Sylvia writing lyrics. For Elf and Rare Bird fans only. T.M. NEIL MERRYWEATHER - Kryptonite (Mercury) •• This guy is perhaps the most banal acid-head ever recorded. And now that his psuedo-blues music has gone out of style some seven years too late, he’s stardrivin’ his way into the glam-rock genre two years after it gasped its last breath. Sounds like Black Oak Arkansas’s come East to imitate Mountain, and make no mistake about it, this is terrible. T.M.