| CD REVIEW V/A : Where The Bad Boys Rock 4 |
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Band : V/A Eurrggghhh...one of the things I simply hàte about vacations coming up, is the fact that you see all kinds of compilation albums popping up. I mean, I've never understood the need people could feel in actually buying a such sampler, since everybody can easily make his own compilation these days. Personally, I've never even been in the position where I could afford to lose time enough to waste on listening to silly compilations of which I own most of the material anyway...which of course has to do something with the "job" of music journalism...but even when I díd get some short time off, I would always have my backstock of albums I already bought but was never able to give a decent listening session. I have to say there IS occasionally some interesting stuff amongst those samplers thanks to the inclusion of song versions previously not so readily available, or unavailable all together...but most of the time what you get is a collection os songs taken straight off the albums of artists signed to the roster that's releasing the compilation! I'm afraid to have to tell you that Where The Bad Boys Rock 4 is one from the latter, least interesting (at least to me personally) category! What can you expect? Nothing less or more than one song off a recently released or to be released album by 25 artists on the (I Used To Fuck) People Like You (In Prison) label. In the latter category, you'll find songs by Ashers, Born To Lose (see review of upcoming album around the same time, as we got this sampler later late, and just prior to our editor-in-chief's 14-day trip to the US), Deadly Sins, The Creepshow, and The Kings Of Nuthin. Nice if you wanna have a sneak preview of those bands' upcoming material, but then you possibly could already find something on the Internet as well! In the category of bands who already had their album released, there's (in alphabetical order) Broilers, Deadline, Deep Eynde, Far From Finished, P. Paul Fenech, Frontkick, Chip Hanna & The Berlin Three, Mad Marge And The Stonecutters, Mad Sin, Roger Miret & The Disasters, Peter Pan Speedrock, The Adicts (with a new version of their classic "Viva La Revolution"), The Black Halos, Thee Merry Widows, The Generators, The Grit, The Heartbreak Engines, The Meteors, The Peacocks, and Whiskey Rebels. If you're somewhat in tune with the label, you know what to expect here. For those less in touch and wanting to make their acquaintance with the bands on the label, I would say this is a good introduction to the somewhat varied and recent offering by bands in the field of either Hardcore Punk, retro Rock, Psychobilly, or Rockabilly. As this IS a compilation, there's no rating! Tony. |