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Blood Red
Punk rock meets old time rock and roll on this cool opener. |
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Train
This one’s more pure punk and the vocals remind me a bit of Stiv Bators. The guitar solo is a real screamer. |
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Never Go Home
Although the punk rock still lives here (and dominates), the guitar at times brings a real blues element to the table. |
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Bent
Imagine a mellow rockabilly jam with a punk sneer and you’ve got a good idea of what the first part of this is like. Comparisons to the Stones’ journeys into country come to mind. They power it out with a bluesy, hard rocking instrumental section, but drop it back to the mellower segment to continue. We get another journey into the harder rocking zone before it ends. |
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Loners
This one’s definitely more pure punk rock. It works quite well and again Stiv Bators seems a good reference. In fact, with a little less hard rocking edge, this feels like that band quite a bit. |
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Desperation Town
While the main jam here is punk rock oriented, the harmonica brings some blues to the table. It’s a cool, mid-tempo grind. |
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Wild Beast
The only real punk rock on this one comes from the vocals. Sure, there is a certain raw approach to the music, but really it’s good old pounding hard classic rock. |
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Rotten Sunday
We have a hard rocking tune on the introduction here with a riff that feels very familiar. It drops to mellower modes for the verse, but it rocks out at other times. |
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I Wanna Be Loved
More straight ahead punky, this has a killer guitar presence that’s very noisy and feedback laden. |
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My Way
A live track, this is more killer punk rock. |
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I Luv U
Here we get more of that punk goes country texture on an acoustic rocker that’s quite cool. |
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The Devil
This time it’s another punk rock styled tune with slide guitar brining in blues elements. |
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Downtown
Although there are no major changes on this straight ahead punk rocker, the music is nowhere near to feeling redundant. It’s just got way too much energy for that. |
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Coal Mine (with Eddie Spaghetti)
This live track doesn’t vary a lot from the other music here, and it’s the first place the set seems to feel a little samey. |
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Can't Stop That Train
Old school acoustic rock meets punk sneering on this tune. |
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Your Turn To Die
The first of three previously unreleased demos, this is raw and extremely tasty, and I love how the guitar solos throughout. |
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Water Down Below
Here we get another of those demos and this one is another killer rocker. |
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Mountain Home
The final track is the final demo and it sounds remarkably good for a demo. It’s not all that different from the rest of the music on the set, though. |
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