Glorious Bank Robbers - Dynamite Sex Doze (1989)

Now here's one you may not have heard of. The strangely named Glorious Bank Robbers are a Swedish sleaze outfit, who, although lyrically inedpt, play a damn fine rock n' roll groove that is oddly captivating - particularly in the swaggering, whiskey-sipping strut of the title trackwith its 'Sweet Home Alabama' style groove. Lyrically it's pretty atrocious, but there's a backstreet charm about this record which melts together all manner of influences ranging from Guns n' Roses, Hanoi Rocks, to a smore simpler sleazoid approach which hordes of bands adopted once 'Appetite For Destruction' had hit the racks. The band are best when they get their heads down and rock hard, 'Young Alcoholic' is a boozy stomper that would no doubt have influenced some of today's more well known sleaze bands such as Crash Diet. It doesn't win any awards for originality but it has a kick-ass attitude that'll have you reaching for the Jack Daniels. 7/10