V/A - BLOOD ON THE CATS - EVEN BLODDIER EDITION 2CD

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• An “Even Bloodier Edition” of the legendary psychobilly album ‘Blood On The Cats’ which was originally issued in 1983 on Cherry Red’s Anagram label.

• Featuring the original album which successfully combined music from UK psychobilly scene leaders The Meteors, The Sting-Rays and The Guana Batz, US pioneers Panther Burns, Irish punks The Outcasts, gothabilly rockers Alien Sex Fiend and even horror rocker Screaming Lord Sutch to create a suitably psychotic blend.

• Plus a further 45 rockin’ and wreckin’ cuts, casting a similarly wide net to include the US group that inspired the movement, The Cramps plus fellow American exponents The Gun Club, along with early recordings by psychobilly heroes Frenzy, Restless and The Krewmen, the infamous King Kurt who were the only UK psychobilly group to get on Top Of The Pops, garage trash from The Milkshakes, The Prisoners and The Tall Boys and neo rockabilly from Dave Phillips And The Hot Rod Gang alongside mainland Europe acts The Nomads and The Voodoo Dolls from Sweden and The Raymen from Germany.

• Rarities include Phoenix, Arizona band Grant And The Geezers’ self-released ‘Monster Stomp’, Swedish psychobilly combo The Voodoo Dolls’ ‘Split Personality’ and ‘Death Letter Blues’ the B- side of scene stars The Krewmen’s debut single. Psychobilly was one of the biggest youth cults of the 1980s, remembered for the followers’ gravity-defying quiffs and aggressive “wrecking” dance. The music became an adrenalized mix of rockabilly and punk featuring lyrics often inspired by horror and science fiction films.

‘Blood On The Cats’ was the first compilation to try to define psychobilly and many fans’ first exposure to a genre that, at that stage, was still unformed, being part of a worldwide movement inspired by punk but devoted to primitive rock ‘n’ roll of the 1950s and 1960s.

 Most of the groups included here played The Klub Foot at The Clarendon Hotel Ballroom in Hammersmith which opened in 1982 and soon became the psychobilly scene’s focal point, only closing in 1988 when the venue was knocked down.

Leader P Paul Fenech claimed that “only The Meteors are pure psychobilly” and the London group certainly kicked off the movement. They are present here in their original line up with ‘Graveyard Stomp’ from 1981, as well as the Fenech-lead later trio with their Top 3 Indie Chart hit ‘I’m Just A Dog’ from 1984. Offshoot bands The Escalators and The Tall Boys also feature.

TRACKS CD1:

1. Alien Sex Fiend - Wild Women (Version)

2. Sunglasses After Dark - Swamp Baby

3. Bone Orchard - Fats Terminal

4. The Escalators - the Day the Sun Burned Down

5. The Guana Batz - Cannibal Run

6. The Meteors - Graveyard Stomp

7. Screaming Lord Sutch Loony Party - Murder In the Graveyard

8. The Sting-Rays - Dinosaurs

9. The Outcasts - Seven Deadly Sins

10. The Ricochets - Runnin' Wild

11. Panther Burns - Red Headed Woman

12. The Revillos - Voodoo

13. The Vibrators - Wolfman Howl

14. The Brilliant Corners - Black Water

15. Inca Babies - the Interior

16. Scientists - When Fate Deals Its Mortal Blow

17. The Cannibals - Paralytic Confusion

18. The Jackals - Psychobilly Belinda

19. The Rattlers - Scare Me To Death

20. Restless - Blackcat

21. Fireball Xl5 - Rockin' Shoes

22. Deltas - Heart Attack

23. Buzz and the Flyers - Let's Bop

24. Blue Cat Trio - Rockabilly Boogie

25. Dave Phillips and the Hot Rod Gang - Tainted Love

26. The Polecats - Marie Celeste

27. The Sharks - Skeleton Rock

28. The Tronics - Wild Cat Rock

29. Pearl Harbour - Voodoo Voodoo

30. Darkness and Jive - Guys 'N' Dolls

TRACKS CD 2:

1. The Cramps - Goo Goo Muck

2. The Gun Club - Preaching the Blues

3. Grant and the Geezers - Monster Stomp

4. King Kurt - Destination Zululand

5. The Nomads - Psycho

6. The Sid Presley Experience - Public Enemy Number One

7. Naz Nomad and the Nightmares - She Lied

8. The Bananamen - Surfin' Bird

9. Restless - Mr. Blues

10. The Voodoo Dolls - Split Personality (Ep Version)

11. The Primevals - This Kind of Love

12. The Delmonas - Peter Gunn Locomotion

13. The Milkshakes - Comanche

14. The Vibes - the Underestimated Man

15. The Tall Boys - Feel It

16. The Prisoners - Revenge of the Cybermen

17. The Playn Jayn - Rockin' Hearse (Live)

18. The X-Men - Do the Ghost

19. The Golden Horde - Vampire Bat

20. The Screaming Blue Messiahs - Good and Gone

21. The Raymen - Man From Mars (Original 1984 Version)

22. The Meteors - I'm Just a Dog

23. Frenzy - Cry or Die

24. Erazerhead - Werewolf

25. The Krewmen - Death Letter Blues

26. The Fuzztones - Ward 81