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THE HOLLYWOODS – A Romp Of Garage
Madness And Instrumental Trash
Savage
Records (SAV 002) 2002
This is a wild, fast instro mayem by the new gurus
of trash instro mania from Sweden: The Hollywoods! The title of the album
describes perfectly its content. A Romp Of Garage Madness And Instrumental
Trash! All 16 songs (15 original and a cover version of The Mummies “Little
Miss Tee-N-T”) are great trashy instumental anthems ala Link Wray and Mummies
and anyway you know what you should be prepared to get from tunes with titles
like: “Masked Women Village”, Hypnotic Walk”, “Werewolf Boy” and “Stinky
Feet”! The Hollywoods are Horace E. Hollywood-bass, Li’l Freddy
Hollywood-drums and Orville A. Hollywood-guitar and there are at least two
more 45s out from them, but you can always check out their website for more
info about the band.
8 out 10
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THE EVIL THINGIES – New Shapes In Sound (10”)
Tear It Up (TIU10 004) 2003
 Wow! It’s been since the Strollers
and the last Satelliters LP that I have experienced such a great pure garage
punk LP! The Evil Thingies are from Belgium and Koen Goossens is involved in here!
He plays the fuzz and screams loudly and nasty! The album begins with two
aggressive garage punk and quick tunes that will make you sweat. “I’ll Make
You Pay” which opens the album, reminds me of The Pikes In Panik style (on
the LP). Fast, furious, wild! Farfisa and fuzz are in every tune! “Enough Of
Your Lies” is this true, authentic garage punk tune you will love from the
first note. The “Lies” subject is my fave theme on the lyrics on every song
and this one is a scorer! “Gotta Get A Grip” will be released as A Side on a
forthcoming 45 by the Thingies and is on the same root as the two first two
songs. Loud and fast. I would love to see the Evil Thingies live, as I
believe that they would make a club go really wild and shaking all around.
This one has harp too. The album’s A side finishes with Outside/Inside, a mid
tempo garage punk stomper that reminds of Yard Trauma (always something
reminds of something, okay, but I don’t mean that any band try to sound like
any other but that’s a way to explain what I get from what I listen to).
B-side starts with an instro titled “It’s A Thingie! Ok, here is Blue’s Theme
in disguise, but who’s that, who doesn’t wanna shake to that beat of the
pounding drums?! And then…follows the highest time of the album! THEE WYLDEST
AND MEANEST! “Hung Up On You” is this, yeah! Mean garage punk! The next song is in the same style and then
comes a powerful RnB tune titled “I’ll Make You Pay” with lotsa harp and
fuzz. In the end comes “I Can Only Give You Everything”, the all time fave
song of Koen Goossens. Check out links pages to visit his site for this song.
The whole LP is splendid. I don’t think that there is more to write than tell
you straight: Go Now And Get That Piece Of Wax Or Give Up Listening To Garage
Punk Tunes For Good!
10 out of 10!
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THE HENTCHMEN – Three Times Infinity
Norton
(ED 294) 2002
That’s the brand new LP by the Hentchmen from Detroit. I believe that this
one is their sixth album and it is released by Norton Records for one time more.
The Hentchmen sound has not changed for any reason and that means that you
can enjoy various sounds among the 12 songs of “Three Times Infinity”: Garage
Punk, RnB, Hot Rod, Punk Rock, Surf, all in the great Hentchmen way, which is
punkish vocals, wild guitars and organ. “April” is my fave song out of the
LP, which is mid tempo moody garage punker with upfront organ sound. If the
two last records you bought are the Detroit Cobras and the Greenhornes,
“Three Times Infinity” must be the third one!
6 out of 10
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