Diabolical Boogie: Singles, Demos, & Rarities [ENHANCED]

Chrome Cranks

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 31, 2009)
• Original Release Date: January 23, 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Enhanced
• Label: ATAVISTIC
• ASIN: B000LC5368
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #316,065 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Love and Sound [#][Demo Version]

2. More Than Alrite [#][Demo Version]

3. Remember Me [#][Demo Version]

4. Big Rip-Off [#][Demo Version]

5. Slow Crash [#][Demo Version]

6. Dog Eat Dog

7. Devil Is in Texas

8. Sacred Soul

9. Street Waves [#]

10. Pin-Tied

See all 16 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Eight-Track Mind

2. Eight-Track Mind

3. Collision Blues

4. Burn Baby Burn

5. Mr. Fingers

6. Come in and Come On

7. Stuck in a Cave [Live]

8. Lost Time Blues

9. Draghouse [Live]

10. Julie Do Ya Love Me

See all 18 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

A super-swank enhanced double CD collection of singles, demos, and rarities, plus three music videos from NYC's prime dirt blues movers, culled from their golden 1992-98 era. Copious, soul-bearing liner notes by Peter Aaron, the Cranks' mouthpiece and official public face. Includes covers of AC/DC, Devo, Television, Pere Ubu, T. Rex, The MC5, Daniel Johnston, The Germs, Sky Saxon, and Brainiac.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Gnaw and Torture, May 12, 2008

By	Sharon Nichols - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

In any hearty record collection, The Chrome Cranks would be wedged between Nick Cave and The Cramps. And rightly so. For out of the festering wasteland of rockabilly, thrash, punk and blues came the Cranks, slithering out of the muck to take a sledge hammer to central nervous systems and tympanic membranes everywhere. Sure, it's been done before and band influences are obvious (Stooges, Birthday Party, Pussy Galore), but they did it with their guts hanging out. Though the band's been defunct for a decade, they've recently released this high-octane, double-disc set of singles, demos and rarities-- two-plus hours of nerve-wracking arsenal to torch your wig. Waste no time getting down to dementia from disc one, track one: William Weber's sinister guitar, Jerry Teel's grunting bass lines and Bob Bert's savage drums back Peter Aaron's shrieking and moping with the ferocity of a heap of cats in heat. Three Cranks videos on enhanced disc two invite your eyeballs into hell, as well. Diabolical Boogie may not be the best place to start with the Cranks; this reviewer personally finds 1995's Dead Cool the most digestible. But if digestion is your objective, this may not be your band anyway. The Cranks lived to gnaw and torture. My only complaint is that this one's not on vinyl.
--Sharon Nichols, Chronogram magazine

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Cranking Out the Rock!, August 12, 2008

By	Morgan G. Bohn - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I have been a long time Chrome Cranks Fan. This is perhaps not the LP new listeners would want to start with however, there are great excerpts from various periods including live cuts from radio/studio performances that are fantastic. I highly reccomend this.