Adam West/No Counts- Trailer Oriented Rock (Sleazey)
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Sleazey Records continue their rather swank series of split EP’s with this two-fer fulla DC boogie thunder and Portuguese…well, thunder boogie. Howzat for consistency? First up, road warriors and rock n’ roll swagger kings Adam West strut their stuff for 5 smokin’, arena rocking tracks, capped off with a rough n’ ready take on “I Stole Your Love”, perhaps KISS’s only truly bad ass song (Well, ok, “God of Thunder” was kinda bad ass too). The full-on cock rock rager of ‘em all, however, is “Beltway to My Heart”, a slam-bang fuckfest of flash metal licks and Jake Starr’s signature cigarette rasp. Bitchin’. Side two (well, in a better world it would be; track 6 in this digital age) features Portugal’s own raunch n’ roll saviors The No-Counts, who lay down another five tracks’ worth of punk-fried AC/DC crunch and swivel-hipped garage rawk. Production is a little thin on these tracks, so they lack a bit of the gut-punch wham-a-lam they oughta have, but the sleaze always shines through, daddy-o. Dig ‘em out-Datsun the Datsuns on “Radiation from Hell”, and marvel at the Rolling Stoner Rock of their ramshackle versh of “Jumping Jack Flash”. Or just freak-freely on the spiraling cock n’ roll of blistering closer “Valhalla on the Rocks”. Whatever ya want to do, man. Just get it, cuz it’s action packed. Oh yeah, and throw in a few bonus points for hijacking Boston’s neon UFO for the cover, too. Lord knows they ain’t using it.
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