Get Outta My Hair A debut that marked an era.
The manifesto of the most vulgar and obnoxious garage punk of the Eighties.
Garage punk raw and insolent as, if not more than what the Gravedigger V had already done, many many miles further South. The Gruesomes were a teen band of fools who played in a troglodyte manner the most trivial and spartan rock 'n' roll of the mid-sixties, elevating the Troggs to the status of circus rock virtuosos.
While everyone was taking the beat out of the pits where it had been buried, four droogs with improbable bangs were bringing it back in and beating it to death under bludgeon-like clubbing. Tyrants of Teen Trash was the most troglodyte garage record released up to that point and still is today. Nobody could go any further back than where the Canadian band had pushed it. Perhaps only the Shaggs or the Beasties' My Broken Heart Will Never Mend which the Gruesomes pull straight out of the Bedrock juke-box.
Technically utterly inept, Gerry Alvarez and company brought rock back to an absolute form of primitivism, wielding their instruments like clubs and injecting into this record the spirited and mocking energy of kids warped by all kinds of trash culture: horror movies, cartoons, volatile drugs, and rock offal from the '50s and '60s. Everything fast and furious, like the first teenage sex and the first car rides. Then you start looking over your shoulder in the rearview mirrors and you realize you will no longer be young.
Even though Tyrants of Teen Trash can give you the illusion that you still are.
How can you dream of growing up if that means not being able to sing things like For All I Care, Gone for Good, Get Out of My Hair, What’s Your Problem? or Dementia 13? How could we have imagined that acquiring the opposable thumb and upright position would fill our house with triple live albums of Yes and prevent us from making silly faces while screaming along to Cry in the Night, The Witch, or Bloodhound?
Guarantee yourself the right to trivial youth. It will be the first thing they take away from you.
Thanks Rev, perfect as - almost - always
I recommend all "technically utterly inept" Ahahahahahahah
To the Most Noble
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