Genre: Punk rock
Places I remember: Little Red Bookshop
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: (I'm) Stranded
Gear costume: No Time
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: (I'm) Stranded
Gear costume: No Time
They loom large in his legend (The Album Collection playlists): Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4; Part 5; Part 6; Part 7
Active compensatory factors: It's a case of don't judge the music by the cover. These four archetypal Aussie larrikins hardly look like punks but their punk thrash outdoes many of those who did look like Sid et al.
Active compensatory factors: It's a case of don't judge the music by the cover. These four archetypal Aussie larrikins hardly look like punks but their punk thrash outdoes many of those who did look like Sid et al.
First song (I'm) Stranded sets out the stall - high energy, a clear sense of dislocation, frustration and anxiety. As AllMusic points out the album "is built around the chainsaw guitars of Ed Kuepper, the thundering rhythm section of drummer Ivor Hay and bassist Kym Bradshaw, and the hoarsely powerful vocals of Chris Bailey".
All that and the band's ability to write classic sixties garage rock anthems made the album an essential part of the movement to get back to basics at the end of the seventies.
Where do they all belong? A great Aussie album and a great rock'n'roll album.
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