I've included the child friendly sleeve although I'm sure some of my more perverted readers would have wanted to have seen the cover showing the lady bereft of knickers! Anyway, what a strange breed Uncle Sam are - the back photo suggests these guys might be some type of sleaze band, but the opening cool jerk skiffle of 'Live For Today' sits somewhere alongside the punkoid cool of Dead Kennedy's with its jittery vocal and those buzzing guitars. I don't know how these guys were marketed, because there's nothing on display here visually that enables the buyer to understand it - and yet it's so catchy in its garage-based noise, whether its bouncing with The Stooges, cavorting with The Cramps or acting like some unknown kin to the Stones. It's a compelling record but I refuse to believe that the guys on the back are the same guys grinding out that almost violent punkoid metal! This is the sort of sound that doesn't want to get big because it's so used to playing clubs beneath the sewers, and that's what real rock 'n' roll is all about. Somebody help me out here because this is a hard one to review! Ten tracks of eye-scratching bubblegum punk metal and 'The Candyman' is just a sinister yet great track.Wednesday 23 March 2011
Uncle Sam - Heaven Or Hollywood (1988)
I've included the child friendly sleeve although I'm sure some of my more perverted readers would have wanted to have seen the cover showing the lady bereft of knickers! Anyway, what a strange breed Uncle Sam are - the back photo suggests these guys might be some type of sleaze band, but the opening cool jerk skiffle of 'Live For Today' sits somewhere alongside the punkoid cool of Dead Kennedy's with its jittery vocal and those buzzing guitars. I don't know how these guys were marketed, because there's nothing on display here visually that enables the buyer to understand it - and yet it's so catchy in its garage-based noise, whether its bouncing with The Stooges, cavorting with The Cramps or acting like some unknown kin to the Stones. It's a compelling record but I refuse to believe that the guys on the back are the same guys grinding out that almost violent punkoid metal! This is the sort of sound that doesn't want to get big because it's so used to playing clubs beneath the sewers, and that's what real rock 'n' roll is all about. Somebody help me out here because this is a hard one to review! Ten tracks of eye-scratching bubblegum punk metal and 'The Candyman' is just a sinister yet great track.
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'Letters From London' is the classic Uncle Sam though IMO ... Love the stories, possibly myths, about them being milkmen, or that they blew their chances of getting into the independent album charts as they forgot to put a barcode on the record sleeve ...
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