The Lipstick Killers: Strange Flash - Studio & Live '78-81 + Psycho Surgeons '76-78

 

The Lipstick Killers grew out of two of the most notorious late 70s punk bands in Sydney

(Australia); Psycho Surgeons and Filth. Their Americanised brand of hard glitter rock drew on The Stooges and The New York Dolls (from whence they derived the band name) for inspiration, although Gary Glitter was also cited as a key musical influence. In 1979 the band issued the Deniz Tek-produced independent single Hindu Gods (Of Love).
                    

Drummer David Taylor departed in 1980 and was replaced by Michael Charles (ex-Shy Impostors).

The Lipstick Killers then spent a year living in Los Angeles where they became involved in the burgeoning Californian hardcore scene that had already produced bands such as Black Flag and Circle Jerks. During their American sojourn, Stephen Mather replaced Giddy on bass.
                

The band made little headway and spent most of their time in the US living in poverty. Following a

Christmas dinner of boiled onions and refried beans, the band broke up and the members limped home to Australia at the start of 1982. Mark Taylor took up computer graphics, Mather joined Decline Of The Reptiles and Charles joined The Screaming Tribesmen.
                  

Citadel Records issued the live album Mesmeriser in December 1984. It had been taken from a cassette

recording of one of the band’s infrequent Los Angeles gigs and the sound quality was rough but the energy and atmosphere provided a retrospective insight into the band’s true spirit. The independent Vi-Nil label also issued a single (Sockman) in January 1985, from demos the band had recorded at the end of 1978.
                   

The Lipstick Killers reunited for a brief Sydney tour in January 1989 and Taylor, Tillman, Mather and

Bill Bilson (Sunnyboys) reappeared in ’96 with ’60s punk cover band Doctor Stone. A second Lipstick Killers reformation in 2001 took the form of a one-off benefit for original drummer David Taylor, who had been seriously injured in a car crash in late 1999.

LINE - UP
                    

Peter Tillman - Vocals
Mark Taylor - Guitar
Kim Giddy - Bass
David Taylor - Drums
Michael Charles - Drums
Stephen Mather - Bass

                  

The Lipstick Killers – Strange Flash - Studio & Live '78-81 + Psycho Surgeons '76-78
Label: Grown Up Wrong! – GUWDM0010
Format: 2 x CD, Compilation, Limited Edition
Country: Australia
Released: 2021
Genre: Rock
Style: Punk, Garage Rock

DISC 1.

                 

LOST IN SPACE 45 : 1979     

01. Hindu Gods Of Love    3:23

MIX DOWN STUDIO DEMOS : 1978    
    
02. Shakedown USA    3:19
03. Sockman    2:02
04. Pensioner Pie    2:35
05. Teen Police    1:51
06. Hindu Gods Of Love    3:38
07. Rot In Love    4:15
08. Accidents    4:51

LIVE IN ADELAIDE : MAY  1979     
    
09. Shakedown USA    4:04
10. Dying Boy's Crawl    5:45
11. Master's Words    2:01
12. Bully    2:30
13. Teen Police    1:48
14. Wild Weekend    2:22
15. I've Got Levitation    3:12
16. Mercy Killer    4:03
17. Pharmaceutical Au-Go-Go    3:08
18. Human Crash    2:33
19. Crush On You    2:38
20. Hindu Gods Of Love    4:02
21. Head Off    5:05
22. Sock It To Me, Baby!    2:13
23. Sockman    2:34
24. Horizontal Action    2:24

MP3 @ 320 Size: 201 MB
Flac  Size: 564 MB
                

DISC 2.

                          

TRAFALGAR DEMOS : 1980    

01. New Hard Fun    2:38
02. Mesmerizer    3:10
03. Driving The Special Dead    3:25
04. Bongo Flip    2:31
05. Twilight Of The Idols    3:24
06. Strange Flash    4:10
07. Hide & Seek    2:31
08. Date With A Thing    2:09
09. Liquor Fit    2:57

LIVE IN LOS ANGELES : 1981   
    
10. Dying Boy's Crawl    5:21
11. Driving The Special Dead    3:42
12. Bongo Flip     2:51
13. Strange Flash    4:05
14. Twilight Of The Idols    3:14
15. I've Got Levitation    2:54
16. Date With A Thing    2:33
17. Sock It To Me, Baby!    2:18
18. Shakedown USA    3:35
19. Pharmaceutical Au-Go-Go    2:44
20. Out Of Our Tree    2:59
21. Liquor Fit    3:24

PSYCHO - SURGEONS
WALLABY BEAT 45 : 1978       

22. Horizontal Action    1:47
23. Wild Weekend    1:52

REHEARSAL : 1976    
    
24. Falling Apart    3:43
25. Crush On You    2:11

MP3 @ 320 Size: 202 MB
Flac  Size: 595 MB

The Hives: Veni Vidi Vicious 2000 +Tyrannosaurus Hives 2004

 

The Hives are a Swedish rock band that rose to prominence in the early 2000s during the garage rock revival. Their mainstream success came with the release of the album Veni Vidi Vicious,

containing the single "Hate to Say I Told You So". The band has been acclaimed by music critics as one of the best live rock bands. The Hives have released five studio albums: Barely Legal (1997), Veni Vidi Vicious (2000), Tyrannosaurus Hives (2004), The Black and White Album (2007) and Lex Hives (2012). They have one compilation album, Your New Favourite Band (2001) and they have issued a live DVD, Tussles in Brussels (2005).
                                          

It was nearly twenty years ago that those dashing, dangerous Swedes The Hives unleashed their debut album, ‘Barely Legal,’ and set the music world on its head. In the two decades since, the unlikely

black-and-white rock-and-roll heroes have filled the mantels of Hive Manor with countless awards, sold millions of records, and blown even more minds with a superhuman live show that shakes the halls of Heaven and rattles the bowels of Hell. Frontman Howlin’ Pelle Almqvist would like you to believe this was all part of the plan from Day One, but the truth is a little more complicated.
                            

With its singular blend of punk snarl, brash bravado, and absurd humor, ‘Barely Legal‘ served as the perfect introduction to the intoxicating rush of blood to the head that is The Hives (Almqvist on vocals, Nicholaus Arson and Vigilante Carlstroem on guitars, Dr. Matt Destruction on bass, and Chris

Dangerous on drums). But it wasn’t until they released their masterful 2000 follow-up, ‘Veni Vidi Vicious,’ that the band truly exploded around the world. On the strength of hits like “Hate To Say I Told You So” and “Main Offender,” the album went Gold in Sweden and catapulted The Hives to the forefront of the international garage rock revival alongside peers like The Strokes and The White Stripes.
                                

Rolling Stone would go on to name ‘Veni Vidi Vicious‘ one of the Top 100 Albums of the Decade,

and its UK companion (a compilation album featuring tracks from their early EPs and first two LPs entitled ‘Your New Favourite Band‘) cracked the Top 10 and ultimately went Platinum. They made the rounds on late night TV in the US and Europe and laid waste to festivals on both continents, cementing their status as the greatest live band in the world and leaving behind a sea of lesser rock and roll mortals and exhausted fans in their wake.
                               

It’s work that Almqvist and the band were born to do, holding their own on stages with the likes of the Rolling Stones and The Sonics, leveling stadiums and amphitheatres around the world with just few

chords and a swinging mic. The Telegraph has said, “Nobody can rival the Hives‘ frontman for sheer charisma,” while SPIN called him “one of the greatest frontmen in rock,” and the BBC dubbed the band “a force of nature.” The Hollywood Reporter similarly gushed that Almqvist “commands—no, demands—full attention from his audience,” and The National Post raved that “Almqvist’s onstage persona is nothing short of a firecracker,” adding that “his fellow Hives are no exception — each one seems to have been born a stage performer and became rock stars as an afterthought.”
                                    

The pressure was on after the band’s breakout success, though, and The Hives took their time before resurfacing with 2004’s ‘Tyrannosaurus Hives,’ which replaced the raw, ragged looseness of ‘Veni Vidi Vicious‘ with a militaristic precision. It earned them their first Gold album in the US, five Swedish Grammis, and more rave reviews everywhere from Rolling Stone to Mojo. Rather than throw in the

towel after three albums, though, they took a left turn on 2007’s ‘The Black And White Album,’ recording outside of Sweden with new producers for the first time, including Pharrell Williams and Dennis Herring (Elvis Costello, Modest Mouse). Lead single “Tick Tick Boom” was an instant smash, cracking the Top 40 in the US and appearing in slew of films, trailers, television shows, video games, and sporting events. They toured even more mercilessly than ever before, conquering new lands like South America along the way and asserting in no uncertain terms that The Hives intended to make not just three, not just four, but more consecutive great records than any band to come before them.
                                

Five years later, they delivered with ‘Lex Hives,’ their first self-produced album and first release on
their own new Disques Hives imprint. The NME called it “amazing,” Q praised that it “fizzes with the

energy of a debut album,” and The Independent hailed it as “high energy, hugely energetic guitar rock.” The ‘Lex Hives’ tour whipped fans into a frenzy, as the band tested the limits of time and space with a relentless schedule that brought their dynamite-loaded freight train of a live show barreling into cities old and new around the world.
                             

They headed down under next to tour Australia at the request of AC/DC (The Huffington Post described the invite from the rock legends as a “bold move,” considering that The Hives are “a band

who could potentially blow them off the stage without much effort“). The shows were a 180 from their US arena tour with Pink, where Rolling Stone caught them “mixing explosive anthems from the last dozen years with high-strung tunes from their new album” and “confronting the headliner’s pop music fans with a euphoric blast of garage rock and supreme overconfidence.” Or in other words, just being The Hives.

MEMBERS

 
                         

Christian Grahn
Johan Gustafsson
Mattias Bernvall
Mikael Karlsson Åström
Niklas Almqvist
Per Almqvist

THE HIVES - VENI VIDI VICIOUS 2000

 
                             

The Hives – Veni Vidi Vicious
Label: Burning Heart Records – VICP-61855, Burning Heart Records – VICP 61855
Format: CD, Album, Enhanced
Country: Japan
Released: May 22, 2002
Genre: Rock
Style: Garage Rock

TRAXS

                                                    

01. The Hives - Declare Guerre Nucleaire    1:35
02. Die, All Right!    2:46
03. A Get Together To Tear It Apart    1:52
04. Main Offender    2:33
05. Outsmarted    2:22
06. Hate To Say I Told You So    3:22
07. The Hives - Introduce The Metric System In Time    2:06
08. Find Another Girl(Written-By – Curtis Mayfield, Jerry Butler)  3:12
09. Statecontrol    1:54
10. Inspection Wise 1999    1:37
11. Knock Knock    2:10
12. Supply And Demand    2:26
13. Untutored Youth    1:35
14. Fever    2:23
15. Mad Man    2:30

MP3 @ 320 Size: 81 MB
Flac  Size: 258 MB

THE HIVES - TYRANNOSAURUS HIVES 2004

 
               

The Hives – Tyrannosaurus Hives
Label: Polydor – 9866987, Polydor – Hives1
Format: CD, Album, Numbered, Promo
Country: Europe
Released: 2004
Genre: Rock
Style: Garage Rock, Punk

TRAXS

                                            

01. Abra Cadaver    1:33
02. Two-Timing Touch And Broken Bones    1:59
03. Walk Idiot Walk    3:30
04. No Pun Intended    2:17
05. A Little More For Little You    3:01
06. B Is For Brutus    2:38
07. See Through Head    2:18
08. Diabolic Scheme    2:58
09.  Missing Link    1:52
10. Love In Plaster    3:10
11. Dead Quote Olympics    1:58
12. Antidote    2:29

MP3 @ 320 Size: 71 MB
Flac  Size: 231 MB

Gore Gore Girls: Up All Night 2002 + Get The Gore 2007

 

Gore Gore Girls are an all female garage rock band from Detroit, Michigan, formed in 1997 by singer/songwriter Amy Gore. The band's name comes from The Gore Gore Girls, a 1972 B-movie by Herschell Gordon Lewis, which is a parody of the term Go Go Girls. Formed in Detroit, MI, in

1997, Gore Gore Girls were one of the pioneers in the garage rock revival underground of the southeastern Michigan area. Their campy image and name may have suggested a poppy punk band, but the actual sound was a far more appealing blend of girl group melodies and garage rock attitude. They were originally made up of guitarist Amy Surdu, drummer Jeff Klein, and bassist Paula Regalado. In 1998, Deanne Iovan joined, taking Regalado's place when she left the band. Deb Agolli signed up to play drums and sing, and the new lineup recorded a single before unveiling Strange Girls in 2000.
                                    

Before the release the band was shaken up, as they lost Agolli after the recording, and plugged in

guitarist Melody Licious, formerly of Broadzilla, after she left Stroker Ace. Shifts within Gore Gore Girls continued for the remaining months. Iovan left in spring 2001 and drummer Monica Breen fit the skins so the band could record its third album, Up All Night. Prior to its release, Breen left and ex-Inside Out Cathy Carrell took the permanent drum seat.
                            

The band became a four-piece in 2004 with the addition of The Hammer (Marlene Hammerle) on guitar and began touring the United States extensively. Gore Gore Girls toured as direct support for The

Cramps in 2003 and 2004. The band released an EP in 2004, 7 X 4, which became part of their third album, Get the Gore. Tracks from the EP and subsequent third album received airplay on Little Steven's Underground Garage Program on Sirius Satellite Radio; the band was featured at Little Steven's Underground Garage Festival on Randall's Island, New York along with other 'garage rock' luminaries and legends The Stooges, The Strokes, The New York Dolls, The Zombies and others. Get the Gore, released in 2007 on Bloodshot Records, was recorded at Ghetto Recorders in Detroit, Michigan and received positive press from USA Today and Playboy Magazine.
                                          

Like fellow Detroit bands The White Stripes and The Detroit Cobras, the band started out struggling through the local club circuit before being "discovered" by independent record label

Get Hip Records in 1998. Their first single "Mama in the Movies" (1999) gained favourable airplay on college radio stations in Michigan, which led to recording their first full-length album Strange Girls in (2000). The second album Up All Night, was released in 2002 and received positive press from the Village Voice and Detroit Free Press. During this time the band toured Europe twice, in 2002 and in 2003, also with infrequent dates in the United States.
                            

Up All Night was released in the summer of 2002 to a good response, which reflected the excitement

that had grown in the Detroit scene from the success of scene favorites the White Stripes. The group became a favorite on Steven Van Zandt's popular Underground Garage radio program, even making an appearance alongside Iggy & the Stooges, the New York Dolls, and the Pretty Things at Van Zandt's garage rock festival in New York City. The band returned to the studio in 2004 for the 7x4 EP, followed by their full-length debut for Bloodshot Records, the Jim Diamond-produced Get the Gore in 2007.

GORE GORE GIRLS - UP ALL NIGHT 2002

                     

Bridging the gap between traditional R&B, Detroit R'n'R and old-fashioned bump and grind, here come

the First Ladies of Detroit's garage girl group sound: the Gore Gore Girls! The time has come for all hipsters, geeks, hot babes, and hodads to dance all night in worship as the Gore Gore Girls unleash their second album, Up All Night, on the unsuspecting world. Out June 01, 2002 -- the Girls of Gore let loose with their poppiest, most powerful signature girl-group/girl-gang sound ever -- with 13 scorching tracks of dirty love, each one delivered right in the kisser.
                                        

Hot on the heels of their knockout debut album Strange Girls (Get Hip Recordings, 2001), the Gore Gore Girls headed back into Jim Diamond's now legendary Ghetto Recorders in Detroit last September

to deliver the second round. Armed with nasty, loud and sweet(!) rock 'n' roll numbers, Gore guitarist/songwriter Amy Surdu added more sugar to the mix with some classic girl group covers: "Keep Your Hands Off My Baby" and "Standing on the Corner.” Combined with the sound of their trademark originals, Up All Night delivers the low-fi love that Gore fans crave. There are girl groups and girl gangs; the Gore Gore Girls are both. It’s rock, dance, and romance with three badass babes from Detroit. Stay Up All Night with the Gore Gore Girls!

Gore Gore Girls – Up All Night
Label: Get Hip Recordings – GH-1112CD
Format:    CD, Album
Country: US
Released: 2002
Genre: Rock
Style: Garage Rock

TRAXS

                                 

01. Astral Man    2:55
02. Automatic Love    2:38
03. I Don't Think So   (Written-By – McCoy)   2:34
04. Up All Night    2:09
05. Shotgun Wedding    1:40
06. Keep Your Hands Off My Baby  (Written-By – Goffin And King)   3:02
07. Hot Rod Breakdown    2:33
08. Cross County Lines    2:04
09. Standing On The Corner  (Written-By – Gates)   2:28
10. Atlanta    2:40
11. Your Last Chance  (Written-By – Robinson, Cooper)  3:07
12. Tell Me (I'm Your True Love)    10:47

Backing Vocals – Melody Licious, Michelle Lannoo (tracks: 3, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11), Monica Breen, Muffy Kroha (tracks: 3, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11), Shelby Murphy (tracks: 12)
Bass – Melody Licious
Guitar – Amy Surdu, Jim Diamond  (tracks: 6)
Organ – John Hentch (tracks: 3, 6, 9, 11)
Percussion – Monica Breen
Vocals – Amy Surdu
Written-By – A. Surdu (tracks: 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 10, 12), Baetens (tracks: 7, 10, 12), Breen (tracks: 7, 12)

MP3 @ 320 Size: 90 MB
Flac  Size: 258 MB

GORE GORE GIRLS - GET THE GORE 2007

                       

In case you were wondering, yes, there is still garage rock in Detroit, and while the world's music press

has left town looking for the next big thing elsewhere, the Gore Gore Girls have proven that cool tunes, swaggering attitude, and worship of Gretsch guitars are still alive and very well indeed. Get the Gore is easily the Motor City combo's best album to date, an inspired marriage of big-beat fuzzy guitar thunder, gale-force vocals, and songs that split the difference between hard rock and the Brill Building with such élan that you'd think such things were easy.
                              

The Gore Gore Girls' lineup on Get the Gore is the strongest to be captured on record to date; Amy Gore and Hammer are an inspired guitar combo, bringing plenty of sweat and muscle to these tunes, while the rhythm section of Nicky Styxx on drums and Carol Anne Schumacher on bass deliver

the rock with plenty of velocity and no wasted movement. With producer Jim Diamond behind the controls, the Gore Gore Girls have put these songs to tape with high energy, explosive force, and a palpable sense of fun. The group's songwriting continues to impress as well, especially the fiery "Casino," the lustful and menacing "Pleasure Unit," and the hard-charging "Voodoo Doll," while the cover of the Poppy Family's "Where Evil Grows" is thankfully kitsch-free and the Dixie Cups' "All Grown Up" gets a "turned up to 11" makeover that kicks like a mule.
                                    

Best of all, Amy's vocals sound just as tough as her lyrics make her out to be, which is no small

accomplishment. Put it all together and you get an album that not only matches the fire and cranked-up spirit of the Gore Gore Girls' live show, but even goes them one better; Get the Gore is killer rock & roll that belongs in every home where the positive use of estrogen is appreciated. Turn this baby up!
                               

Gore Gore Girls – Get The Gore
Label: Bloodshot Records – BS 142
Format:    CD, Album
Country: US
Released: 2007
Genre: Rock
Style: Garage Rock

TRAXS

                                     

01. Fox In A Box
02. Loaded Heart
03. All Grown Up
04. Pleasure Unit
05. Where Evil Grows
06. Casino
07. Don't Cry
08. Mary Ann
09. You Lied To Me Before
10. So Sophisticated
11. Little Baby
12. Sweet Potato
13. Voodoo Doll
14. Hammer Stomp

Bass – Carol Anne Schumacher
Drums – Nicky Styxx
Electric Piano – Michael Maltese
Lead Guitar, Guitar, Slide Guitar – Hammer
Vocals, Lead Guitar, Guitar – Amy Gore

MP3 @ 320 Size: 91 MB
Flac  Size: 221 MB