| Various Artists / Death Rattle & Roll Vo |
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| Album: | Death Rattle & Roll Vo | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Various Artists | Added: | Aug 2004 | |
| Label: | Wondertaker | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2004-10-11 | Pull Date: | 2004-12-13 | Charts: | Loud |
| Week Ending: | Nov 21 | Oct 31 | Oct 24 | Oct 17 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Nov 17, 2004: | Brownian Motion Chain Wallet | 4. | Oct 22, 2004: | Baptism of Solitude No Money Down | |
| 2. | Oct 29, 2004: | Baptism of Solitude No Money Down | 5. | Oct 20, 2004: | press and release Gearing Up for Getting Down | |
| 3. | Oct 23, 2004: | On The Warpath No Money Down | 6. | Oct 15, 2004: | Baptism of Solitude Forgive Me |
| Album Review |
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| Ragnar of Ravensfjord Reviewed 2004-10-17 | ||
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COLL: Death Rattle & Roll - Vol. 1 (Wondertaker) This is lots of (mostly) local punk, punk n’ roll & hard rock action the bulk of which is really good, no brainer stuff. Nothing terribly groundbreaking here but fun, basic stuff that invokes everything from AC/DC, The Dwarves, Gluecifer, Turbonegro, New Bomb Turks, Motorhead, Ramones & The Damned. (((1))) - The Hydromatics - Uptempo, 2 chord punk n’ roll. Hella basic but pretty solid with stupid lyrics. Somewhere around AC/DC meets Gluecifer and Eddie Haskels. (((2))) Bottles & Skulls - Super-fast punk like New Bomb Turks meets the old Dwarves stuff or early Supersuckers (aka: We wanna be the Dwarves). (FCC “fuck”) ((((3)))) The Grannies - Total Gluecifer-like vocals. $10 says these guys at least one record by The Hellacopters, Gluecifer or Turbonegro. (((4))) Jack Saints - Big Motorhead-like bass intro snarling 3-4 chord punk rawness. Reminds me of the few & rare GOOD punk bands from San Jose in the 90’s like say, Bombs For Whitey. ((5)) Everything Must Go - Kind of annoying intro riff then launches off into a seriously unexciting mix of obnoxius drunk punk and a lightweight version of the Confederacy of Scum bands (ex: Rancid Vat, Limecell, Antiseen). (FCC “stupid shit”) (((6))) The Nitwitz - Nice & tight 70’s UK punk riffage. The Buzzcocks with arena rock moves? ((((7)))) Ain’t - Awesome, rollin’ punk fire with killer female vocals. Very much in the style of the Gits ‘cept with some Angus Young worship in the guitars. (((8))) Motorhome - Not suprisingly the first bits sound like Motorhead but the vocals are more swaggery, barfly punkish & the base of riffs are total AC/DC territory. ((9)) Midnight Bombers - Pretty uninspired vocals minus the OK backing choruses. Basic rock n’ punk stuff. ((((10)))) Jack Endino’s Earthworm - Jack Endino - now there’s a name you probably haven’t heard in awhile. Fuckin’ great Motorhead impression by way of Northwestern fuzz & wah-wah (aka: “real grunge rock” not that Smashing Pumpkins/Alice In Chains bullshit). ((((11)))) The Black Furies - Super Stooges/Dead Boys worship. Derrivative as fuck but good at that. Lots of guitar wailing. (((12))) The Fleshies - Slow, sludgey fucked up like a faster Killdozer crossed with Schlong or the DKs. (((13))) The Amputees - Strummy punk with good female vocals. Melodic punk/indie rock. ((14)) Reid Paley - Country/rockabilly strummer. So-so. Sounds like a joke song to me. (((15))) Bottles & Skulls - Nice bass intro then loud guitars into a fast New Bomb Turks style attack. (((16))) Dirty Power - Sludgy Black Sabbath worship. So much so that this pastes “Hole In The Sky” and at least 2 other Sab tunes. An instrumental that kicks ass on most stoner rock. (17) Dirty Power - This one I don’t get - it sounds WAY too much like everything else on this album. I never thought I’d hear Zeke-light but here it is. (18) The Hydromatics - Ugh! This is a warmed over Springsteen outtake! (19) Everything Must Go - Kinda generic obnoxious punk. Everything in this BAND must go (away)! (((20))) Jack Endino’s Earthworm - Twangy, all-round ramblin’, rollin’ instrumental featuring Endino solid guitar chops. ((21)) Midnight Bombers - Better than their previous track. Sounds like Zeke, Sub-Pop-era Dwarves and KISS on speed. Not bad but been done only 9 billion times before. ((22)) The Amputees - Mid-tempo punk/indie rock that doesn’t go too far. ((((23)))) Motorhome - More smashed up, 70’s punk n’ metal worship complete with cowbell break! . Solid stuff. (FCC “fuck 0:28) (((24))) Jack Saints - Speaking of 70’s punk n’ metal worship - this is total AC/DC on a budget with some fast boogie action & bottles a’ breakin’. Pretty nice. ((25)) Black Furies - More Stooges riffing with so-so vocal presence. How many times has this been done before? Too many and this doesn’t bring anything new. (26) - The Grannies - Please kill that cock-rock wank disguised as ‘punk’. Damn, this one suck-ass flat ‘quasi-grunge’ like a Nirvana reject tune. Would’ve been vaguely amusing in 1992 but now? ((27)) Reid Paley - A demented drunken Tom Waits style. Chorus has too many FCCs ((((28)))) Ain’t - Killer bass & drums intro. Fuck this band has a lot of that same bite that The Gits possessed. As Grand Funk used to say “Great singin’, great playin’” ((29)) Fleshies - What the fuck? They’re covering Rush’s “Working Man” then they go into a twisted raw, live sloppy mess of a tune. ((30)) The Nitwitz - Ex-pat Yanks now in the Netherlands doing some more Stooges/Dead Boys stuff that occasionally borders on the Replacements old stuff. Not bad but nothing spectacular either. (FCC 0:05 “zip up my pants motherfucker, “punk azz mother fucker 0”20) ------------------------ | ||
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