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Rating: Ingredients for a perfect horror party:
- 300 meters of fake cobwebs, to hang as you wish
- heavy and excessive makeup, well spread on the faces of each guest
- presence of the words Zombie, Bat, and Blood in the names of each drink or food offered
- 45 Grave in the stereo, with the album "Sleep In Safety" blasted at impossible volumes!
Directly from 80s Los Angeles (the first edition dates back to 1983, Enigma label), "Sleep In Safety" is the testimony of an underworld that thoroughly enjoys itself at the expense of the living. And while we listen, for a moment, we too become part of that party.
"Insurance From God" introduces us to the atmosphere: by candlelight, shadows tremble with the vibrating organ, the true inanimate protagonist of that typically horror sound from B-movies.
But 45 Grave have another protagonist to present: Dinah Cancer, the sexy-trash witch who will take over your home for the next 48 minutes. There's a celebration (Do you wanna paaaaaarty? It's "Party Time"!). And Dinah certainly holds nothing back! Amidst screams, shouts, satanic laughter, Dinah knows how to get you: she knows that deep down, you are a bit "Evil".
The combination of frenetic rhythm and organ gives rise to a gothic version of punk, resonating in "Violent World," as well as in "Dream Hits II" and the eponymous anthem "45 Grave".
But the piece that delivers the most captivating effect is "Surf Bat": the soundtrack of a true horror pulp movie, where refined gangsters roam the streets of a ghost town in luxurious hearses.
It's the peak moment of the party: "Riboflavin" starts (a 60s cover) and the audience sways rhythmically to the beat of this kind of commercial for vampires: come meet the flavored, non-carbonated, and polyunsaturated blood that Dinah has patented for you!
The CD reissue of the album (1993) concludes with a compelling cover of Alice Cooper's "School's Out" and the single version of "Party Time" (by the way, an additional version of "Party Time" was included in the soundtrack of the movie "The Return of the Living
Dead"!).
Throughout the writing of this review (I am a very slooooow person), I listened to "Sleep in Safety" dozens of times in a row! Now I'm going to my room, turn off the light, but I won't be afraid: 45 Grave taught me that one can sleep safely, with a zombie waving hello from the closet and a smiling vampire at the window.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
02 Evil (02:52)
Blind me with all your lies...you're evil
I can look into your lies...you're evil
I can look into your face...you're evil
Lying all over the place...you're evil
Hey ma, run into the night
You lie. You know
Into the night to roam
Those looks you give me tell that you're evil
You're so evil, you're evil, you're evil
I hope I don't see you alive you're evil
Hey ma, run into the night
You, yea you, you're so evil
You're a creature of destruction
Into the night to fight
Yea, you know
Into the night
Come on baby let's fight right now
I hope I don't fit into your plans you're evil
You, yea you, you're so evil
Those looks you give me tell that you're evil
Hey ma, run into the night
You're so evil, you're evil, you're evil
Yea, you know You're a creature of destruction
03 Party Time (03:17)
Oh, she never had a chance
Oh, she was only five years old
Pity the poor darling now
Oh, she never had a chance
Death come quick
For a girl
Victim of a homicide
Cut and beaten
Brutally raped
The five year old
Didn't escape
Her mom and friend
Did her in
Cigarette burns
On her arms
From her mom and her friend
He had a whip
To hit her again
Do you wanna party? It's partytime
We gotta party! It's partytime
Oh, she never had a chance
Oh, she was only five years old
She was unaware
Oh, she never had a chance
Her grand mother
Was sent to jail
Except Veronica
Her older sister
She wasn't loved
For a dime
Where ever she is
It's partytime
Do you wanna party/It's partytime
We gotta party/It's partytime
Do you wanna party/It's partytime
We gotta party/It's partytime
It's partytime
It's partytime
It's partytime
It's partytime
04 Violent World (02:07)
Terrorist kills a man
They cut out his throat
I'm hoping for a genocide
It's a violent world
Saw it on the TV screen
Car crash is suicide
He was just a bloody
Terrorism, homicide
Saw him on the TV screen
Saw it on the TV screen
It's a violent world
Saw him on the TV screen
Let his throat open wide
It's a violent world
Saw it on the TV screen
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