Sunday 12 August 2007

Love/Hate - Blackout In The Redroom (1990)

Wow, what a record, and let's forget Guns 'n' Roses ever existed. This blows the whole sleaze metal genre out of the water, delivering itself like a truck of whiskey to the brain, full on party tunes to decimate the venue and leave the crowd sweating blood.
Love/Hate, superb band, 'nuff said...pure rock 'n' roll mayhem, authentic straight down the line music that plays it simple yet plays it for real.

Jizzy Pearl has a raw set of tonsils that scream from the speakers, and there's no letting up, anthems galore, the title track hitting you in the face, greasing you up and leaving you for dead, but you'll get up for more because this has such balls, and front.

'She's An Angel' is schizophrenic, a heartfelt tale that pumps and then sits before ripping your teeth out, 'Why Do You Think they Call It Dope ?', sounds silly but it rocks big time, Skid's bass bouncing, bringing to mind a more sobre Faith No More, with elements of AC/DC buzz riffs, and the sleaze of a whole genre, even early Crue.

The tracks come out you relentlessly, and after this assault you'll wonder just why this band weren't massive.

9/10

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