I bought this one from a second hand store for €1. It contains a cover of "Bummer in the Summer" from one of my all-time-favorite albums, Love's "Forever Changes", so I thought "these guys have good taste in music-maybe their album is good, too". As it happens, their Love cover is just passably good garage rock. Their other 60's cover "Sealed With A Kiss" is somewhat more interesting, the way it often is when a pop song gets the punk treatment. It sports a nice guitar solo and I must say the guitars throughout the album are excellent and remind me of The Wipers' Greg Sage. The rest of the songs are all originals, betraying a wide spectrum of influences that prove that yes, these guys do have good taste. Apart from The Wipers, I can hear elements of the Cramps ("Calling All Trucks", "Cannibal Fiesta"), Black Flag ("Someone In My Blood"), X ("Plisting Thing", "Killed You On A Summerday"), Jello Biafra ("Famous Bands In Plane Accidents"), Frank Zappa ("Easy Judy"), Misfits ("Shit", "Daddy May I"), Beasts Of Bourbon ("Lungs & Liver"). Ramones ("Fuckersville, Heaven") etc. An Internet search has yielded very little information, namely that the band came from Breda (a Dutch city near the Belgian border) and only published this CD and a short EP. Apparently, guitarist Delabie is mostly famous for running Studio 195, which seems to occupy an important place in the Dutch Alternative music scene. The album is of some interest for mixing disparate elements in a post punk-garage-psychedelic-experimental hybrid, but far from essential. I don't see me playing it often in the future - not with thousands more waiting to be listened and reviewed. UPDATE> This Dutch site http://music.xs4all.nl/Intro/Intro88/d068888.htm informs us that the group evolved from another group called Scream Therapy and that singer Hans Ford released one more lo-fi album in 1996 under the name Ford's Imaginary Inferno. Guitarist Delabie has been somewhat more active, as a member of the Scoundrels in the 80's, producer for studio 195 and solo artist.
**** for Easy Judy, Fuckersville Heaven, Sealed With A Kiss
*** for Calling All Trucks, Bummer In The Summer, Plisting Thing, Shit, Daddy May I (Be A Whore), Killed You On A Summerday
** for Someone In My Blood, Famous Bands In Plane Accidents, Band,Worker Wilson, Lungs & Liver, It Was Great, Tralalapompompom, Cannibal Fiesta
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