Rockabilly Psychosis
‘Rockabilly Psychosis & the Garage Disease’, 1984. Compilation album from Big Beat Records, cashing in on the rockabilly craze of the day led by bands like the Meteors. An alternative to New Romantic nonsense. I loved this stuff. It has modern bands like the aforementioned Meteors, Guana Batz, Gun Club and the Cramps, all doing their take on Fifties rock n roll, rockabilly, garage band psychedelia. What sold it to me was original versions of songs that I’d only heard as cover versions. The Sonics ‘Psycho’, The Phantom ‘Love Me’, The Trashmen ‘Surfin’ Bird’, Hasil Adkins ‘She Said’ - classics all. I mean, Screamin’! To seal the deal, The Legendary Stardust Cowboy and ‘Paralysed’, an influence on Bowie and where Ziggy got his surname. Truly one of the most demented songs ever committed to vinyl…
Rockabilly Psychosis
‘Rockabilly Psychosis & the Garage Disease’, 1984. Compilation album from Big Beat Records, cashing in on the rockabilly craze of the day led by bands like the Meteors. An alternative to New Romantic nonsense. I loved this stuff. It has modern bands like the aforementioned Meteors, Guana Batz, Gun Club and the Cramps, all doing their take on Fifties rock n roll, rockabilly, garage band psychedelia. What sold it to me was original versions of songs that I’d only heard as cover versions. The Sonics ‘Psycho’, The Phantom ‘Love Me’, The Trashmen ‘Surfin’ Bird’, Hasil Adkins ‘She Said’ - classics all. I mean, Screamin’! To seal the deal, The Legendary Stardust Cowboy and ‘Paralysed’, an influence on Bowie and where Ziggy got his surname. Truly one of the most demented songs ever committed to vinyl…