Now, I'm always waffling on about albums that came before or after their time, and one such record is this. Star Star's 'Love Drag Years' was the perfect mix of sleaze, pop and glam - in fact it was such an infectious record that I'm rather concerned that no-one really knew fuck all about them. Taking the swagger of the New York Dolls, the bounce of the Ramones and the sleaze of Faster Pussycat. Typically lipstick-ridden and dishevelled, and fronted by the sickly sweet tones of one Johnnie Holliday, it was simply an album that should have come about five years previous because in 1992 that fetid grunge stink wafted over our towns and removed the last stains of metal from our souls. Considering these received some excellent reviews in the music press, the marrying of punk and glam was probably seen as too synthetic for a time when it was 'cooler' to wear slacker gear. But this is a cracking sleaze-pop-punk opus that goes for the early Alice Cooper-styled sneer whilst bringing with it some bubble-gum ditties to match. If you're looking for criminally ignored band's then Star Star are right up there. Whether in the form of the Bolan-esque hum of 'My Little Cuisinette' or the trash n' roll attitude of 'Science Fiction Boy,' these guys coulda been the next Guns n' Roses but just like The Throbs they didn't have enough behind them to rattle the grunge generation.
8/10
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