V/A- Another Hour With Bubblegum Slut
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UK’s reigning superglam fanzine chick Alison B. offers up yet another stellar batch of glitterpunk, slut rock, and pixie dust goth bands all wrapped around saucy soundbites culled from her freewheeling, X-rated interviews with various platform bootboys. All the bands on the comp have been featured in the fur-lined pages of Bubblegum Slut zine at some point, so if you’ve read it, well, this is what it sounds like. Ok, so there’s a few tracks on here that sound a little, uh…girly, but hey, a girl put it together, so whaddya expect? Mostly tho, it’s fully of tough, sleazy rock and roll, and like all great comps, leaves ya hustling for more material from yr fave bands on deck. Highlights on this ‘un are a plenty, and most certainly includes the flash metal meltdown of openers Broken Teeth. Formed by ex-glambangers Dangerous Toys (and technical thrash metal band Watchtower, if ya wanna stretch things real far back) mainman Jason McMasters, BT are whiskey swillin’ bad asses from Texas who sound like a redneck Skid Row, and they just blaze through opener “Hanging by the Skin”. Personally, I didn’t think anybody past a Van Zant bro in the mid-70’s could pull off a line like “Oh lordy what have I done/I shoulda listened to dear ‘ol mom”, but McMasters just tears lines like that up like he was born in the back seat of Deere tractor, or something. If ya dig the greasy likes of American Dog and Jackyl, ain’t no reason at all why you wouldn’t enjoy Broken Teeth just as much. Elsewhere, Canuck T Rex revivalists Crash Kelly lay down a fantastic glam rock cruncher, “She Gets Away”, full of purple-powered riffs and a perfect, hook-y chorus, and UK superboogie champs Freewheeler bash yer brains in with a giant mallet made outta AC/DC and Rose Tattoo riffs on the monstrous “Driving Us Crazy”. Then there’s the insanely catchy punk n’ roll razorblade mania of the Roolettes’ bad luck anthem “Same Old Story”, the sexy, chick-powered glampop of Anet’s “Talented Girl”, and…well, let’s just say there’s more where that came from. I could do without the Dracula stuff, but otherwise, a great comp that turned me on to a cuppla great new bands. I’d close with a witty remark about how much fun I had spending another hour with this Bubblegum Slut, but I’m sure yer way ahead of me. Just pick up the comp – it’s sloppy and colorful, it rocks, and it’s cheap. Just like…well, you know.
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