{"id":13496,"date":"2020-09-28T05:00:21","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T05:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=13496"},"modified":"2020-09-27T18:51:08","modified_gmt":"2020-09-27T18:51:08","slug":"various-reprobates-demolition-derby-volume-2-retro-vox-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=13496","title":{"rendered":"Various Reprobates – ‘Demolition Derby Volume 2’ (Retro Vox Records)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Right then. I’m gonna listen to this bad boy blind, just burn it to CD and let it rip a couple of times and fill in the bands and bullshit later. Six bands, twelve tracks, two each. Off we go…<\/p>\n

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The Drippers \u2013 ‘Stuck with You’: Overkill to the max. Full-on no-compromise rock & roll. Motorhead-tastic. I like it a lot!<\/p>\n

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The Hip Priests \u2013 ‘666 Sister’: Okay, I recognise Cruz’s voice straight away. Short sweet and with wah-wah frenzy soloing filling ever bit of breathing space.<\/p>\n

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Stacy Crown \u2013 ‘Heavy Rain’: Kind of reminds me of The Almighty and throws me right back to the dawn of nighties. This lot aren’t wah-wah shy either. You even get a Black Diamond build up at the end. Cool stuff.<\/p>\n

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Black Gremlin \u2013 ‘Cosmic Death’: Doomy riffing that kind of hits me with a seventies sounding Metallica flavour.<\/p>\n

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Grindhouse \u2013 ‘City High’: Yeah Grindhouse straight off the bat. A band I need to see so I can buy their records. Straight down the line rock & roll with and edge of mental.<\/p>\n

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The Empire Strikes \u2013 ‘Not in Toulouse’: This is a sleazy beast. Very different from the tunes so far. It’s a laid back and dirty affair, kind of Hanoi plays Fleetwood Mac. Ooooh, nice but naughty.<\/p>\n

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So I guess I’m half way through now and have heard each of the bands once. Retro Vox have really pulled it off again, there’s not a stinker amongst them. Honest !!<\/p>\n

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The Empire Strikes \u2013\u00a0 ‘No Action, Non Rock’: Ah ha, this is the last band again. More riffed up and rockin’ than before. Kind of like a decent Reckless Love. I bet they’re from Finland !!! (Yup, I was right)<\/p>\n

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Grindhouse \u2013 ‘Shit Together’: Another slice of Grindhouse. Hooky as fuck. Proper black magic from the earth’s under carriage.<\/p>\n

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Black Gremlin \u2013 ‘Quiver’: I recognise that this must be the \u201cdoomy band\u201d from side 1. More metal than the other bands on offer here but with some great chug going on. I definitely need to check this lot out.<\/p>\n

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The Drippers \u2013 ‘The Monetary Selection’: Okay, so this is The Drippers?!? I haven’t seen the track listing at this point so I’m still flying blind. Yeah this is right up there with the best Gothenburg has to offer. Proper good.<\/p>\n

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The Hip Priests \u2013 ‘Head Over Heels’: Back to the Priests with a cool Motherfucker Superior kind of tune. This one is right up there with their best tunes. Wah-tastic mates.<\/p>\n

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Stacey Crowne \u2013 ‘Fool Hearted’: This is Hellacopters enough to melt the hearts of any closet Scandi-rocker. Yeah…. you gotta love it.<\/p>\n

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Demolition Derby Volume 2 is released on Retro Vox Records on October 23. Give it a listen and pre-order it on all kinds of sexy vinyl: Here<\/a><\/p>\n

Author: Fraser Munro<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Right then. I’m gonna listen to this bad boy blind, just burn it to CD and let it rip a couple of times and fill in the bands and bullshit later. Six bands, twelve tracks, two each. Off we go…   The Drippers \u2013 ‘Stuck with You’: Overkill to the max. Full-on no-compromise rock & […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13497,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5870,1145,5869,2690,1379,622],"class_list":["post-13496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-black-gremlin","tag-grindhouse","tag-stacey-crown","tag-the-drippers","tag-the-empire-strikes","tag-the-hip-priests","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13498,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13496\/revisions\/13498"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}