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"Holy The Bop Apocalypse" The Chargers Street Gang |
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I don't get the title… Hell I don't even get the pictorial contents that go with the front cover. What I do get is a large dose of loud Garage-style Punk, flailin' fists in the direction of that menacing late sixties/early seventies groove where street-cred was alive and well in the chaotic lives of MC5, The Stooges, and later The 'Dolls and Dead Boys. The Chargers Street Gang is a conjuring of all those cathartic and crazy days gone by with their "Holy The Bop Apocalypse" debut. The twelve tracks boast of nothing
n particular, no unresolved issues, cranky love songs or acidic contents,
this is the real deal-life, liberty and the pursuit of stupidity-"Tom
Waits For No-One," "Black & Tan," "Raised On Richards,"
"Shitty Song…" and you get the idea as we frolic in
the feed-driven fun of a dated song fragment and broken string Modern day contemporaries include the likes of New Bomb Turks, Sonny Vincent, Rocket From The Crypt, Hendrix and The Stones… ah, why the Fuck not? Controllville's way outta the day this gang set foot. Released by Get Hip Records Review by Vinnie Apicella [va85@columbia.edu] P.O. Box 20252
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