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Silver Ginger 5's album 'Black Leather Mojo' has just been re-released as a two-disc special edition - and oh my god, but it's fantastic. I haven't heard an album opener like 'Sonic Shake' since... well, since 'Junkenstein' off 'Endless, Nameless', or 'Poundcake' off 'For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge'. They were an unstoppable HUGE glam-stomp-rock monster, The Ramones meets Cheap Trick at the bottom of a bottle of rocket fuel. And the song titles... sweet Lord, the song titles... 'Too Many Hippies (In The Garden Of Love)', 'Girls Are Better Than Boys', 'Walk Like A Motherfucker', 'Last Bastard In Heaven', and the Jaggertastic 'Brain Sugar'. Buyitbuyitbuyit.
As far as the UK's best ever rock n' roll band goes... the NME, in typically pisstaking mode, actually put it rather well back in the day:
"Scientifically, the Wildhearts shouldn't exist. A song called "My Baby Is A Headfuck" should NOT be capable of including doo-wop harmonies and filching its middle-eight from "Day Tripper", and it shouldn't possibly share a set with "Pissjoy" (which is Rocket From The Crypt's "On A Rope" played by psycho dwarves). And physicists have proved it mathematically impossible that a band could storm offstage mid-set for no apparent reason, return with a blitzkrieg version of "Pump It Up" and not be killed.
But the Wildhearts puke in the face of science..." |
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