Stray Cats [Import]

Stray Cats | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 19, 1989)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Ariola Germany
• ASIN: B000007476
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #63,357 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Runaway Boys

2. Fishnet Stockings

3. Ubangi Stomp

4. Jeanie, Jeanie, Jeanie

5. Storm the Embassy

6. Rock This Town

7. Rumble in Brighton

8. Stray Cat Strut

9. Crawl Up and Die

10. Double Talkin' Baby

11. My One Desire

12. Wild Saxaphone

Editorial Reviews

1981 album featuring 12 tracks. Highlights include, 'Runaway Boys', 'Fishnet Stockings', 'Ubangi Stomp', 'Jeannie, Jeannie, Jeannie' & 'Storm the Embassy'.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars No U.S. release??, April 20, 2002

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D Todd (Bloomfield Hills, MI United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Stray Cats (Audio CD)

What a joke!! This is one damn fine album. I remember purchasing this when it first came out as an import LP (courtesy of a great review in Trouser Press, which was really the early version of Mojo, but I digress) and none of my friends could understand what I saw in these guys (Styx anybody???). Of course a year or two later they were MTV poster boys and the rest is history. Where do I start...Fish Net Stockings; Wild Saxophone; Ubangi Stomp; Jeannie Jeannie Jeannie. Oh yeah, a couple of hit singles here too (Stray Cat Strut and Rock This Town). Forget the Greatest Hits and Built for Speed. This one and Gonna Ball are the only two that you need. Why these are not available Stateside is a complete mystery.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Their TRUE first album, October 20, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Stray Cats (Audio CD)

This was the first album the Stray Cats recorded, and it was released in Britain. Tracks from this first album and the second British release "Gonna Ball" were culled to form the first US album, "Built For Speed."

This album is their true debut album, and it is still the BEST Stray Cats album. Better than "Built For Speed." You just can't argue with songs like "Fishnet Stockings." I still love this stuff.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Rockabilly Legend's Best Album, July 15, 2010

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Stevelvis (Atlanta GA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Stray Cats (Audio CD)

Robert Gordon is the guy that really started the rockabilly revival in the late 1970s, but the Stray Cats' first self-titled album was the one that received the most media coverage in the UK and started the rockabilly craze of the early 1980s. The first album by the Stray Cats was released in the UK in 1981 and was available only as an import in the USA. The Stray Cats wouldn't become really popular in the US until 1982 when cuts were taken from their first two British albums to create their first US album and then they hit it big with their videos on MTV.

"Stray Cats," the cd which is still available in the USA only as an import includes the hit songs "Stray Cat Strut," "Rumble In Brighton," and "Rock This Town," which was cowritten with Dave Edmunds. Also included are the old rockabilly classics "Double Talkin' Baby," a hit for Gene Vincent, "My One Desire," which was written by Dorsey Burnette and was a hit for Rick Nelson, "Jeannie, Jeannie, Jeannie," which was a hit for Eddie Cochran, and "Ubangi Stomp," which was a big hit for three Sun Records rockabilly stars Carl Mann, Warren Smith, and Jerry Lee Lewis. My other favorite songs on the album include "Runaway Boys," "Fishnet Stockings," and "Wild Saxaphone."

The Stray Cats who consisted of a bare bones trio, chose some great songs to cover, but Brian Setzer was a good song writer too. Brian of course has gone on to greater fame and continues to be the most popular mainstream rockabilly artist of his generation with his own band still playing rockabilly, swing, and jazz.