MOONQUAKE - Star Struck (Aquarius) :: When you dabble in different aspects of pop culture from Hollywood Babylon to Beatlemania as this Canadian band is doing you are asking your listeners to be culturally relative. The Raspberries do the same thing, only they haven't emulated the country side of the Stones, the Love It To Death period of Alice Cooper, or Motown, or L.A. "65 as Moonquake has. They're punks and they're stylists or maybe they're stylish punks but whatever they are Star Struck is a promising departure from most Canadian rock LFs being released today. T.H.

RAMASES - Glass Top Coffin (Vertigo) :: A man (Ramases) and wife (Sel) folk duo stuck in post Sgt. Pepper/Moody Blues cosmic shitsquiddling. Acid days are Ramases salad days. Underneath that chromium dome of his is a blighted head of lettuce. T.H.

VALDY - See How The Years Have Gone By (A&M) :: This hunk of Canadian bacon is as artless and simplistic as American expatriate Jesse Winchester is artful in his simplicity. HighGrade Down-Home Pap when compared to that of, say, John-Boy Denver. Backpackin" at the Boy Scout Jamboree. Less clubfoot than Light: foot, but more macho than Mitchell. M .S.