Scarred for Life [Import]

Rose Tattoo | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 26, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• ASIN: B00061WY2A
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,329,510 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Scarred for Life

2. We Can't Be Beaten

3. Juice on the Loose

4. Who's Got the Cash

5. Branded

6. Texas

7. It's Gonna Work Itself Out

8. Sydney Girls

9. Dead Set

10. Revenge

Editorial Reviews

Rose Tattoo's third album Scarred For Life produced 3 singles and peaked at #14 on the Australian National charts in 1982. Alberts. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Final Part of The Classic Tatts Trilogy, June 4, 2000

By 

Mark A McGrath - See all my reviews

This review is from: Scarred For Life (Audio CD)

This was Rose Tattoo's 3rd release and formed the third part of the classic trilogy of albums they released between 1978 and 1982 - all produced by Harry Vanda & George Young - the team behind AC/DC's rise to greatness.

This album was probably The Tatt's most innovative work, but paradoxically, also stayed closest to the bands' roots of the early Stones, Kinks and Chuck Berry.

It's got the huge wall of sound with clever hooks and searing vocals laid over the top by Angry Anderson but its probably a bit brighter and flashier than the preceeding works - but no less brutal in delivery. The title track lays the foundations first up with an opening axe attack that floors you. We Can't Be Beaten is truly anthemic and an unashamedly honest if you've ever seen this band live.

Of the remaining tracks, Branded and the thuggish Who's Got The Cash are the standouts. In short, the album kicks arse and in true Australian style does not bother with any of the niceties - it just rips, tears and lacerates or as we put it in Oz: it's got mongrel.

This was the last album before Rose Tattoo's classic line-up fell apart (even though Mick Cocks had already left by this stage) and represented the last of the classic Rose Tattoo sound as all other subsequent releases were commercially compromised (even though there are some good songs still to be found on these later albums).

Rose Tattoo should have been as huge as AC/DC but bad luck and internal troubles dogged the band just when they were breaking in the UK in 1981.

Ironically, their lack of success makes their early albums all the more treasurable.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good but not comparable to the debut album, April 6, 2001

By 

Ronald - See all my reviews

This review is from: Scarred For Life (Audio CD)

Rose Tattoo was a great band. In my opinion they just had one problem. Their debut album was an absolutely perfect rock and roll album. It was impossible to improve that one. So, if this is your first album from Rose Tattoo you probably will regard it as great. If you already know the album "Rock N Roll Outlaw" you will find this one dissapointing and boring.

4 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of THE definnitive Skinhead albums, January 23, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Scarred For Life (Audio CD)

If you want to hear Skinhead rock at its most intense WITHOUT having to put up with racist statements (like the albums of Brutal Attack or Bound For Glory) than look no futher than Rose Tattoo's third album! Heavy AC/DC-esque rock with the embittered voice of Angry Anderson make a winning combination for everybody. Not just fans of Skinhead Oi. Other great non-racist Skinhead CDs worth sniffing out include "1989" by [Last] Resort and "Storming To Power" by Condemned 84.