Saturday, November 15, 2003

News on the next batch of Norton releases:

5.6.7.8'S - ROCK & ROLL SANTA/HARLEM SHUFFLE
Fresh from their exciting onscreen appearance in Quentin Tarantino's 'Kill Bill', Japan's garage geisha serve up a roaring holiday platter. B-side is a over of the Bob & Earl R&B dance classic. Spiffy picture sleeve!
LYRES/NEW CONOLLY FIVE - SPLIT 7"
8th Of 15 split Rolling Stones cover singles recorded by today's coolest hit makers and packaged in their own company sleeve. LYRES play 'Now I've Got A Witness' and Monoman's alter-ego, NEW CONOLLY FIVE, play 'Stoned'.
SWINGIN' NECKBREAKERS/SHANKS - SPLIT 7"
7th Of 15 split Rolling Stones cover singles recorded by today's coolest hit makers and packaged in their own company sleeve. SN play 'It's Not Easy'. SHANKS play 'Doncha Bother Me'.
ROKY ERICKSON & THE ALIENS - DON'T KNOCK THE ROK! (2LP)
2LP. 23 Previously UNISSUED 1978 studio performances showcase ROKY & THE ALIENS romping through late fifties, early sixties teen chartbusters and
some cool originals! Tracks include 'You Drive Me Crazy', 'What To Do', 'Things That Go Bump In The Night', 'Love Is Strange', 'Bumble Bee Zombie',
'You're The One', 'etc.
SKY SAXON - PRESENTS A STARLIGHT DATE WITH...
....Richard Marsh'. A must-have for SEEDS fans. First time collection of SKY SAXON recordings from 1959-64, from his rare debut 'What Chance Have
I?' as DICK MARSH to 'Do The Swim' with the ELECTRA-FIRES plus the HOODWINKS and the SOUL ROCKERS. Includes newly discovered 1959 debut 45! Excellent sleeve notes and great full-colour jacket.
VARIOUS - BIG ITCH, VOL. 7
Celebrated all-vinyl series returns with yet another astonishing collection of rockin' wildass bizarros with a heavy concentration of unknown dance themes and nods to food, cycles and disfiguring complexion eruptions! Featuring ARGONS (Do The Dog), TOM BROWN (Bird Dance Beat), TITO MAMBO & THE MEN OF CHANTZ (Jungle Farm), CENTURY FIVE (La Moomba Kasa Boo Boo Cha Cha Cha), etc.
Sanctuary have issued The Cramps Flamejob album with the inclusion of Confessions of a PsychoCat and No Club Lone Wolf plus both versions of the UltraTwist video. I'm not sure why this couldn't have come out as part of the Vengeance Reissues series but, y'ken... This is easily their most consistent record (to my mind) since Psychedelic Jungle. It's important to remember that it came out in the UK on Creation when McGee lumbered the world with O*sis. But anyway, that's water way below the bridge or rather a crime against music for anarra time. Not sure about that re-do of the Flamejob logo, the original font was understated and I think that cover photo speaks for itself. Somebody should have proof-read those sleeve notes Mike, Miriam is not spelled with a "u" fer chrissakes and maybe it would have been an idea to limit the scrapbook images to the period in question? Cramped ones are picky critters. Anyway, the music is what matters when all is said and done and there's a real spikeheeled crunch to Flamejob that, to this day, they haven't recaptured. UltraTwist should have been the international breakout hit it deserved to be and the world would be a better place for the sickness it could have spawned. So let's do it kids, re-write the wrongs of history and Let's Get FUUUUU-Cked Up!