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Never Been Caught

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...especially for clueless kids who think that "Garage Rock" is a new phenomenon and that the Strokes and the White Stripes are edgy. The Mummies started in the late 80's. Most people regarded them as a joke (which they were), with their bandage outfits, unspeakably worthless equipment, their rejection of cds and the heinous sound quality of their recordings. Not to mention their dumb lyrics and middle finger atittude. In other words, the Mummies became the ultimate Punk Rock band. In fact they developed more fans than they would have dreamed only after they had been broken up for years! Musically, they are quite good. Some awesome 60's style fuzz guitar, surfy organ, and thumping bass cranking out killer riff after killer riff. The playing was sloppy and downright bad, but the ideas were kickarse. The production however sounded like some worn out, shoddy, homemade record from the 50's. Really awful! But that's part of the charm. The Mummies wouldn't be the cult underground legend that they are if they didn't do it themselves with the cheapest equipment they could find. If you think Garage Rock is cool, then pick up a Mummies reissue and be blown away by the garageyest Garage band in Rock 'N Roll history.

Here you get a cd reissue of the Mummies Telstar lp, Planet of the Apes 45, one b-side, and a song that appeared on Norton records Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs tribute lp. To those who are unfamiliar with these 'legends' they are spoken of as the kings of budget rock for a reason. Very raw Sonics/ Fabulous Wailers inspired rock and roll is what you get. A great and wild cover of "Justine" and even a clobbering of a Beatles' song are just two of the twenty-two examples of crudely recorded mayhem featured here. Go out and get their Estrus stuff on vinyl and while you are at it check out and support labels such as Norton, Crypt, Telstar, and Sympathy for the Record Industry who are the few who are putting out real rock and roll these days.
For Fans Of: Supercharger, the Trashwomen
(most likely) Not For Fans Of: Korn, Foo-Fighters, Dave Matthews,Limp Bizkit, MTV, most anything you're going to hear on the radio, etc., the watered-down bland list goes on and on...

What can be said about the Mummies that hasn't been said already? With their attire, their rescued from yard sales equipment, and their total disregard for anything currently popular, their place as underground legends has been secured. No other Garage-Rock Revival band played this crudely with equipment this bootleg. Despite the fact that they promised never to release anything on CDs, eventually time passed and Telstar reissued their best album onto a handy portable digital compact disc. But don't worry - the skips and hiss have been retained. No "digital remastering" or "cleaning up" going on here! And bonus tracks have been added, including what many fans consider one of the group's all time classics, the hilarious "You Must Fight to Live On the Planet Of the Apes". The band takes the best elements of garage, surf, hotrod, and even punk and melds them together into one amazing and potent rock 'n' roll concoction. Any true rock 'n' roll fan owes it to themselves to pick up at least one Mummies album. Rock 'n' roll at it's most crude, raw, and unproduced. The world shall never see a band like this again.

When it comes to collecting and experiencing true rock and roll, it's a very rare situation that leads me to be interested in a "revival" or "tribute" type band or movement. To me 60s garage for the most part cannot be topped by the original purveyors and there are ample reissues and comps of this music that usually more than satisfy me.

However, when it comes to the case of The Mummies, all that goes out the window for me. Honestly, it took 15 years after the fact their demise for me to discover this killer band, thanks to their approach and motto - "the kings of low budget rock". By having this singular vision (in equipment and song choice), reaching its peak with this album, it brings them closer in my mind than any other modern era band to giving me the type of rush I always get from listening to anything that flat out rocks that was recorded between 1964-66.

Every song on this album pounds on its own, and put together makes it what has to be my favorite album purchase over the last two years. If you made this far within Amazon and are still wondering if this is worth picking up - don't - IT IS!

...especially for clueless kids who think that "Garage Rock" is a new phenomenon and that the Strokes and the White Stripes are edgy. The Mummies started in the late 80's. Most people regarded them as a joke (which they were), with their bandage outfits, unspeakably worthless equipment, their rejection of cds and the heinous sound quality of their recordings. Not to mention their dumb lyrics and middle finger atittude. In other words, the Mummies became the ultimate Punk Rock band. In fact they developed more fans than they would have dreamed only after they had been broken up for years! Musically, they are quite good. Some awesome 60's style fuzz guitar, surfy organ, and thumping bass cranking out killer riff after killer riff. The playing was sloppy and downright bad, but the ideas were kickarse. The production however sounded like some worn out, shoddy, homemade record from the 50's. Really awful! But that's part of the charm. The Mummies wouldn't be the cult underground legend that they are if they didn't do it themselves with the cheapest equipment they could find. If you think Garage Rock is cool, then pick up a Mummies reissue and be blown away by the garageyest Garage band in Rock 'N Roll history.

I'm always amazed that this band wasn't at least as big as the Cramps. I wish they had stuck around a bit longer... but maybe they would've degraded into suck had they stuck it out a couple mroe years.

The songs here are stupid, sweaty, and crude. Altogether, it makes for good lsitening.

CHeck this out if you are into sixties rauch. There are even certain bands from the 60's that sound exactly like the mummies! (if you don't believe me check out CHANTS R&B's punked out cover of "land of a thousand dances" everything from the voice to the sound quality and raunch is there) This band is true to its garage roots unlike the new mainstream supposed garage acts. You'll dig. And if you don't listen to 60's garage its about time you start!

This is a CD by The Mummies. You will like it and love the Mummies music 'cause it soundee so good. CD is bad but Mummies make CD sound better than ever - like an old record. Mummies make loud rock'n'roll music and call it " budget rock". " Budget rock " is better than Strokes or White Stripes put in blender and get messed up and hurt and turn red. Garage hipsters are dumb if they don't love the Mummies. Mummies did rock'n'roll without good gear, without money and without you!