TV Idols
17, Desperate And All Messed Up (LP)
ex-The Phantom Rats
Neuware • DE • 2001 • Screaming Apple
Lo-Fi / '77 Style Punk
12 Tracks.
Do you remember the PHANTOM RATS? These guys have put out some of the most impressive punk'n'roll platters of the 90s and together with bands like TEENGENERATE & the 5,6,7,8´S they were responsible for the beginning of the japanese rock'n'roll invasion in America and Europe. Unfortunately they broke up in 1997, but they couldn't do without playing and formed this new and even stronger outfit called the TV IDOLS. This is their debut album and it's the hell of a record. While the PHAMTOM RATS had a strong rock'n'roll influence, the TV IDOLS are more fixed on late 70s, early 80s US punk, like the DEAD BOYS and the early REPLACEMENTS. Great songs, catchy hooks, a hard edged guitar sound and a real driving rhythm section, that describes the TV IDOLS sound best. 12 powerful and energetic punk-rock anthems including covers of the DEAD BOYS and the RICH KIDS.
Trackliste / Inhalt:
A2. Leave Me Alone
A3. Look At You
A4. You Can't Let Me Down
A5. Young Girls (RICH KIDS)
A6. Usual
B1. 17, Desperate And All Messed Up
B2. Never Change
B3. She's So Cute
B4. I Won't Look Back (DEAD BOYS)
B5. Wasted Youth
B6. V-a-c-a-t-i-o-n