I like it loud and clear so don’t be shy give me my music and I’m ready to fly If it ain’t loud enough I don’t waste my time ’cause mellow rock is just a bloody crime US Import: Check Singer with Mohawk: Check Ex-member of Hanoi Rocks: Check Trouser tightness of more than 5lbs/sq. … Continue reading
Feel The Shake
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Good Morning!
There are some things about Blackfoot Marauder you should know, if this LP were a person: It would work on the highways all day long, then drink until 3am in a honky-tonk shack on the outskirts of town, EVEN ON WORK NIGHTS! It would definitely kick your ass if you looked at it funny It did time … Continue reading
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Izzy Iz Or Izzy Ain’t?
Now here’s a great surprise, Izzy Stradlin Pressure Drop, 12″ picture disc from 1992. Now I didn’t buy this one, just inherited it from my brother and my recollection of it from way back when was that it was pretty much a cover of the Clash cover version of ‘Pressure Drop’, the original of which … Continue reading
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Piped In From Mars
I remember Kerrang! releasing a series of four booklets of the best 100 rock and metal LPs ever, when I was 16-ish. I had a good few of the LPs featured, others I added later, some I’m still holding out against (Michael Bolton), but I did learn about a few totally new bands, one of … Continue reading
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Get In Line For Your Mind
Here’s one I’m pretty sure won’t trigger howls of recognition from y’all, but a very fine one in places, Atom Seed Get In Line (from 1991). In fact, crazy cat that I am, I’m going to review my whole damn Atom Seed collection for you right now, which comprises their first EP I Don’t Want … Continue reading
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Rancho Discreeto
The object of my affections today has seen better days. Its’ cover is a little tatty in places, there is a little more surface noise than I’d like and the actual LP is pressed on the thinnest, cheapest vinyl you can imagine – 180g? 40g more like! But there is a reason why I splurged more … Continue reading
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Texas Embassy
Here’s what really inspired my last ZZ Top post. The plaque marking the sight of the Texan embassy*, which was active between 1842 and 1845 on, the very plush, St James Street in London. England was all for Texas staying independent, even going so far as to offer to guarantee their borders between the US … Continue reading
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Far Beyond The Wheel
Some LPs I’ve bought recently I really wished I’d discovered as a teen, simply because when you’re that age, as opposed to a harassed bald wage slave, you can just kick back and live in an album – spend all afternoon, all day just luxuriating in it, rather than a few cursory listens when your mind … Continue reading
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You’ve Been …
…I was caught In the middle of a railroad track I looked round And I knew there was no turning back I’m really, really excited. It is partly because Wales have just beaten South Africa at rugby* but mostly I’m excited at the fact AC/DC’s Rock Or Bust is released on Monday and I’m hoping … Continue reading
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To His Coy … Bitch?
It came to me this morning, as most of better ideas do, when I was running, an idea to bring a little culture and class into your tawdry lives. My ‘Jog, Piggy! Jog!’ playlist picked out Rhino Bucket ‘Even The Sun Goes Down’ and as I obsessively listened to it 5 times in a row, I … Continue reading
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The Gettysburg Address Of Sleaze
Your heart’s in the right place I just wish I could say the same about where you put your legs Some of us are born to the gutter, others have gutterness thrust upon them and yet others work at achieving and maintaining their position in the gutter every single day; such ones were Smashed Gladys*. … Continue reading
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Destroyers
Okay so I’m slipping another cheat play past you, but you rockers need to know about The Shrine Bless Off, their third LP and by far their best. The sticker on the front of the LP, pretty much says it all so you could just read it twice, hard and save yourself all the verbiage below. … Continue reading
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A Leather-Trousered Rock Injection
Swansea, Cinderella’s nightclub on 2 October 1989, 17 year-old me is sitting with a girl who is not-quite my girlfriend yet watching my second ever gig. I’m definitely wearing jeans that are far too tight for me, even given the fact I was a slender thing at the time, white Hi-Tec boots, some of my mum’s … Continue reading
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Wolf Teats
Livin’ in a shack in a one-horse town Trying to get to heaven ‘fore the sun goin’ down Not wishing to be one of those crude blogger chaps that the internet is full of these days, but I have just had an eargasm. I haven’t sat down and listened to the Cult Electric for what … Continue reading
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Tick-Tocking Rocker
Swedish rockers? you just know what they’re going to look like, right? lots of beautiful teased-out hair, jeans artfully ripped in all the places that jeans don’t really rip in real life*, cheekbones you could cut yourself on. So here’s Graveyard. I bought their 2012 album Lights Out in the fabulous tangled Parrot record shop in … Continue reading
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Whew! Here’s A Little Song For Everybody Out There
Or, 1537 tries to like KISS, again* Growing up and getting into metal I always felt I really should like KISS more than I did, I mean who couldn’t love the early LP art, the make-up, fire-eating, platform boots and titles like Lick It Up and ‘Burn Bitch Burn’? but … I could never … Continue reading
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Blood Orgy Of The Leather Girls
Here at 1537, you know how we pride ourselves* on being dignified cultured sorts and a lone voice in support of high cultural pursuits in a dumbed down world. On a weekend I may well be found at the opera, catching a modernist dance troop perhaps, or attending a challenging art installation in a groovy loft, … Continue reading
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The Psychotronic Love Commandos
I’m The Genius Of Love I Got An Honours Degree Baby You’re In Luck I’m Gonna Teach You For Free Lines written not by myself, as you’d be forgiven for thinking, but by a real 80’s favourite of mine Zodiac Mindwarp & The Love Reaction. They burst into my life via the Prime Mover single, … Continue reading
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Electric Weapon
When I signed up to be a rocker back in 1985-ish the rules were pretty damn clear, we had to listen to very loud music all the time and be wild, untamable free spirits, staying up way past bedtime drinking to excess and bonking all manner of dirty women* preferably in pairs, we were gonna be … Continue reading
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Shrine On, Bless Off!
Dear all, Now you know I’m not the sort of fella to get all enthusiastic on your ass but you may have noticed how much I love LA’s The Shrine, I might just have let it accidentally slip that I HAPPEN TO THINK THEY’RE THE COOLEST/LOUDEST BAND IN FREAKIN’ EXISTENCE TODAY!! If punk and metal mated, then … Continue reading
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